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Greetings!     

learn leadHaving the right leadership driving your organization is more important than ever.  Take an honest look at your team.  Do you have the leadership you need to succeed today and beyond?  
 
How do you find  the very best.....dedicated, focused and productive leaders for your organization's unique culture?  What traits does a person need to possess to rally your staff, your board and your community to accomplish goals far beyond what you ever imagined?
 
Allow us to help you fill your most challenging leadership holes.  The Batten Group knows how to spot, recruit and present the most productive leaders who many times are not in the active job market.  We dig through our network, speak with hundreds of leaders and highly respected professionals to actively recruit top talent. Our clients are then able to hire the best of the best to impact the bottom line and mission.  Our efforts are not diluted on recruiting for other industries....we are 100% focused on your organization and have a successful track record of acheivement in the unique nonprofit industry as executives and recruiters.
 
To preview the top leaders from across the country who have aligned with The Batten Group....from members of Congress, to CEO's and Directors of America's most sought after nonprofits and corporations....call us today for a confidential overview of some of the best talent in America.  Our team has placed dozens of leaders in key positions with nonprofit organizations.  They choose us based on our integrity, our intimate knowledge of the nonprofit health industry, our network of highly respected leaders and our successful searches, which are guaranteed to produce "A" level talent from coast to coast.
 
Trust us to make a difference. 
 
Sincerely,
 
Jim Batten
(704) 841-2099
Seven Traits of Great Leaders
 
Recap from last week:
 
1. Great leaders identify, cultivate, and inspire enthusiastic followers.  
2. Great leaders focus their efforts.
3. Great leaders face and overcome great difficulties.  
4. Great leaders expect more from themselves than they do from others. 
 
5. Great leaders are not afraid to make tough decisions. Whether leading a nation or a corporation, every day the leader faces problems that require decisions. In some cases there is adequate time to think, assess, and evaluate all of the circumstances surrounding the problem, but quite often an immediate decision is needed. The good leader must make such decisions.
 
6. Great leaders have a vision and utmost faith in themselves to fulfill that vision. Great leaders have all had their visions. They knew what they wanted to accomplish, visualized its outcome, and devoted all their energies and emotions to accomplish that vision. Most important, they truly believed in their own capability to do this. It makes a great difference whether you go into a thing to win, with clenched teeth and the vision of winning firmly in your mind. Determination to win is half the battle.
 
7. Great leaders are ambitious for themselves, their companies, and their people. One of the saddest things in life is to see men and women with a faded ambition, a lost life aim. No quality requires more guarding than ambition. It will not live and keep growing if it is not nourished; and the moment we begin to disregard it, we begin to go downhill. If your ambition is not alive, you should strengthen it in every possible way. Visualize the thing you want to be; keep it in your mind constantly; and work for it with all your might.  
 
Source:  Ken Shelton, originally published in Executive Excellence Magazin

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Client Testimonial
 
Jim Batten has been a strategic partner for our organization in recruiting top talent for more than fifteen positions across the country.  We have come to know, trust and appreciate the partnership that Jim has provided.  He is uniquely able to recruit top talent based upon his proven methodology, his extensive network (honed for more than 20 years as a nonprofit executive turned recruiter).  He has a keen ability to understand our needs, culture and the fit necessary for one to thrive in our fast paced and demanding environment.  His intimate knowledge of volunteer/staff partnerships and the demands of the nonprofit industry give him an edge above other executive recruiters.
 
Jim has become a trusted advisor and confidant to me and our senior team.  I would not hesitate to recommend Jim Batten and The Batten Group to any hiring authority seeking an exemplary search effort that will exceed your expectations.
 
President
National Nonprofit Health Agency