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February 2012

Leadership Insight Newsletter
In This Issue
EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS......Understand Cultures
Steps To Creating A Successful Multi-Generational Workforce
Tips To Make You A Better Listener

 

 

 

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
~ Thomas Jefferson

 

"The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers."

~John Egan

 "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

~Winston Churchill
 

"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit."

~John C. Maxwell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Congratulations to Bill Bonnstetter, chairman of Target Training International, Ltd., who was recently nominated for a 2012 Edison Award for best new product for the invention and use of TTI Performance DNA, an assessment providing insights into job-related dimensions of personal and professional competencies and skills. In partnership with the Kern Family Foundation, Bonnstetter is using TTI Performance DNA to help reform higher education, help students succeed and safeguard the next generation of entrepreneurs.

 

Leadership Insight has been a distributor of TTI's assessments tools for more than 14 years. We have full trust in all TTI tools (DISC, TriMetrix™, Workplace Motivators™, 360 surveys etc) to objectively assess talent in support of employee selection and development, and to evaluate team and organizational performance. This nomination is confirmation that TTI is a leader in the research and development of behavioural assessments.

 

Bonnstetter started Target Training International in 1984 and built it into the world's leading developer of research-based, validated assessment and coaching tools. Its tools are now used in Fortune 500 organizations in the United States and Canada, and in 90 countries and 40 languages. TTI, Ltd. holds three separate patents for its assessments and for its revolutionary Internet Delivery ServiceŽ, which first enabled assessments to be safely and effectively delivered via the world-wide web in 2001.

 

Please contact us at any time to discuss your assessment needs and challenges.

 

Enjoy this issue of talent talk!

Cheers,

Rebecca
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EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS...
                              Understand Cultures  

By seeing the big picture, Exceptional Leaders learn to understand the cultures of the groups with whom they are dealing. In our four-quadrant model, the collective interior subjective (lower left quadrant) should be taken into consideration in all decisions and evaluations.

Executives who just focus on the transactional commercial aspects of the business (lower right quadrant) can be blindsided by the important dynamics of culture. You see many examples of this when large change initiatives are not successful, such as a merger. If one only looks at the commercial aspects and ignores the cultural dynamics such as shared beliefs among employees or customers (this is what our customers want) and values (this is what is really important to us), significant resistance can emerge, resistance which could prove fatal to a successful outcome. 

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Steps To Creating A Successful Multi-Generational WorkforceRe-engage    

A combination of generations in the workplace can be a successful venture but only if all sides are willing to comply with one another. Older generations have built a career on the knowledge and experiences they have gained. Newer generations, often fresh out of college, think they know everything. They have spent the previous four years studying in a higher learning institution and have earned their place, no matter the starting position, in your company. In order for a multi-generation workforce to garner respect from one another and become assets to the company, they must possess an acceptance and the willingness to learn from one another.

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Tips To Make You A Better ListenerRe-engage

You can become a better listener if you want. You can stop some of the main causes that affect listening before they begin. Changing your environment and approach to listening will result in better listening and better communications.

  • Control Distractions. One of the biggest distractions is the telephone. You are giving the speaker your full attention and then the phone rings. When you answer the call you are sending the message that you are not listening and it interrupts the discussion and train of thoughts. You can avoid this by directing all calls to voice mail or have an assistant answer the incoming calls. 

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