Leadership Lessons
by Tim Redmond - the Leadership and Wealth Creation Coach
Greetings, my friend. . . I trust you are off to a great year in 2005!
Wow! I just got back from conducting Leadership Intensives in Ecuador and Peru (see photos here!).
Progress isn't always convenient. Ecuador was wonderful (especially since my wife Sandy came with me)! In Peru, I spent all day on a plane trying to land in Trujillo only to have to return to Lima and ride a bus for 10 hours all night. The high impact meetings we had with these leaders made the adventure worth it!
A few months ago, a young business woman asked me what advice I would have for her in growing her business. I shared 7 few brief ideas with her and thought you might benefit from them as well:
1. One of the most important parts of growing your business is growing you. Here's a few personal growth strategies to consider -
One of the most unselfish things a leader can do is to invest in himself. The more you build yourself on the inside, the more effective your impact will be on the outside with those you love and work with.
What are you going to do today to grow yourself?
2. Learn and be grateful in EVERY experience. When you do, you see things from a position of strength instead of weakness. You'll then have greater power to make the necessary adjustments towards higher success. Keep in mind that the opposite of learning is blaming. One goes inward and grows, the other goes outward and accuses (which excuses one from taking responsibility). Make sure what you learn is always greater than the experience itself.
How are you looking at your current challenges in your life? Are you blaming someone or something or are you learning and adjusting to bring out the best in that challenge?
3. Become trustworthy. Trust is the currency of leadership and sustained prosperity. People want to do business with someone they trust. 3 simple keys to developing trust with others: 1 - do what you say, 2 - finish what you start 3 - focus on and celebrate the greatness in others.
Trust is something you give to others before you demand it from them (leaders initiate!). Are you trustworthy? What are you doing to cause others to trust you more?
4. Set goals (long and short term) and be accountable to them. Write down your goals and read them daily - make them part of your prayer list (I suggest not having any more than 3 or 4 at one time) and know if you reached them within the time frame given. What you learn from this process (if you are diligent to stay with them) is even more valuable than reaching the goal.
What goals do you have? Have you written them down so you can read them every day?
5. Make doing business with you an experience. With every opportunity, "wow" your clients! Do special things, extra personal touches (along with the basics of good, timely customer service) - think of creative ways of living and serving others from your heart.
What unique and special thing can you do for your customers, employees, boss, or family members that would "wow" them?
6. Be a generous person. As you profit, give faithfully to your church and special needs. I suggest you carry 2 or 3 of the biggest bills ($5, $10, $100) you can in your wallet for the sole purpose of giving them away. You feel rich with them in your pocket and even richer when you give them away to the special people and situations you are directed to.
Just recently, I felt to give a $100 bill to a man I see every day as I drop off my kids at school. I saw him a few days later with tears in his eyes. "Tim, you didn't know this, but that day you gave me the $100 bill was my anniversary - I had no way of treating my wife to a night she deserved. Thank you for making it possible."
When you release these bills from your hand, you drive out poor, limited thinking from your thoughts - and release and open the way to see opportunities and ideas in a different, more beneficial light.
What special need in your family, at work or church can you be generous towards and give from your heart and hand?
7. Finally, know who you are. You do not attract what you want, you attract into your life who you are. The way you see yourself will produce results in your life accordingly.
You are a person of many abilities! You are filled with greatness! You have the creativity to produce abundance even when faced with scarcity. By God's design, you're wired and designed to succeed - you've got what it takes! (To help you discover and release your unique greatness, check out my popular Blueprinting from the Heart CD series.)
Consider taking a moment today and write down what comes to mind when you ask yourself, "Who am I?"
I suggest you print this to review often and to forward it to 3 people you love and 3 people that are a challenge to love (don't let them know which group they fall in . . .).
God bless and fully release you in your unique power to create wealth!!
Tim Redmond
Redmond Leadership Institute - The Center for Leadership and Wealth Creation
Founded by Tim and Sandy Redmond, Redmond Leadership Institute is a non-profit organization with a passion to unlock and release the greatness in people and organizations. RLI focuses on equipping leaders with powerful tools that produce dramatic results. We speak at organizations, seminars and host conferences in the US and abroad; particularly in developing nations with huge potential.
(c) 2005 RLI and Tim Redmond
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