Self-Help: Building The Leader In You

Change of Command Ceremony - United States Army Africa - 10 June  2010

“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

~Colin Powell

Problems, problems, problems. It seems that people are obsessed with problems and don’t know how to solve them. They complain about the problem. In reality, as Colin Powell says, it is a way to build a positive relationship with those around you, in spite of the problems.

Leadership Lessons Of Yoda

Just a quick post here. I’m not sure if any of you have watched Star Wars, or if you are fans. Personally, I’m not crazy about it, but there are lessons to learn there.

Firstly, you have Yoda who represents the Mentor. It’s a person that almost everyone needs to have in their life. If you are without a mentor, then there will be experience that cannot be learned simply through your own experience. The Mentor guides you down the right path.

Personal Development Singapore: Developing Charisma

I received a question which I felt deserved a decent post.

Guy Brown asked:

“Why do certain people have the ability to engage and entice people when they talk, regardless of the topic of conversation?”

In my 16 years of training and speaking, I’ve found that there are an extremely large number of people who are constantly fascinated by the charisma of leaders, people who have that “X” factor, and most of these people are under the spotlight very frequently.

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