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FranklinCovey Blog | Leadership Training
Engage Yourself
If you are personally disengaged, diagnose why. Think about yourself as a whole person—body, mind, heart, spirit.
- Body: Do I get results? Do I get them in a sustainable way? (e.g., I build trust with others, I am physically and mentally healthy, my personal life is not falling apart).
- Heart: Does my work tap into my talents and passions?
- Mind: Am I learning and able to use my intelligence and creativity in the majority of my working days?
- Spirit: Is there some larger sense of meaning in what I do? The meaning could be found in the impact of your product and service to your community/world or it could be found in how you achieve results and develop people or it could be a simple gut check that says, “This feels right.”
Based on your answers, you have choices. Is there anything you can take responsibility for to impact your engagement? Is there a need in the organization you could fill that could also re-engage you in your work? Before you polish your resume figuring it will be better somewhere else, be sure that you have done everything you can based on where you are on the engagement scale—if the problem lies with you, it will unfortunately follow you to your next employer!
My next blog: What leaders/managers can do to create the conditions for engagement.
To hear more, come see Jennifer at Training 2011. http://www.trainingconference.com/session_details.cfm
Training Industry.com Names FranklinCovey as Top 20 Leadership Training Company
FranklinCovey has been named a 2010 Top 20 Leadership Training Company by TrainingIndustry.com. The recognition is given to providers because they have demonstrated experience and excellence in providing leadership training to clients based on the following criteria:
- Thought leadership and influence on leadership training industry
- Industry recognition and innovation
- Breadth of programs and audiences served
- Delivery methods offered
- Company size and growth potential
- Strength of clients
- Geographic reach
- Experience in serving the market › Continue reading
____ In a Crisis (you fill in the blank)
One of the great opportunities this downturn has created is the selling of how to do something in a crisis. I get many emails a week offering to educate me on how to do something I thought I knew how to do, but no apparently do not because we are in a crisis and everything is different. ‘How to lead in a crisis’, how to project manage in a crisis’, ‘how to sell in a crisis’, ‘how to buy a car in a crisis’, ‘how to make French onion soup in a crisis’ (well, that one wasn’t real). While everyone is on the bandwagon, they are with good cause. The crisis demands at times new actions for new challenges. However, at other times, what it demands is a recommitment to what has always worked, but was less understood in good times. This is the case with leadership.
Given that our job as leaders is ultimately to get results through our teams, and given that declining results are one of the big problems in this economy, then our problem to solve is results. And, given that we need to achieve results through people, our challenge is to help a group of people who are bombarded daily both in the workplace and the press with dour forecasts for the future, feel motivated, energized and engaged.
The good news is not only is it possible, it is probable if the leader does the right things. A crisis sets the stage for the leverage and changing of the most powerful force over behavior in an organization – culture. › Continue reading