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- Google's Leadership Rules
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- The King's Speech for Leaders
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- Increasing the Bench Strength of your Leadership Pipeline
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- Black Swans draw eyes onto the Leader
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- The Court of Conscience
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- No Margin No Good
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- How will you Lead in 2011?
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- Water what You want to Grow
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- Start a Virtuous Cycle & Create a Winning Team
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- With people, slow is fast
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- Leading without Title
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- Waking the Sleepwalkers
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- The Goose and the Golden Egg
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- What is really Important?
Posted by Claude Warner on Friday 14th May 2010 at 11:52:05
- When Important becomes Urgent
Posted by Claude Warner on Tuesday 27th April 2010 at 10:42:20
- It Starts at the Top!
Posted by Claude Warner on Wednesday 11th November 2009 at 14:30:10
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Communication
- Listening is not Understanding
Posted by Claude Warner on Wednesday 17th February 2010 at 21:10:49
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- How to Connect with Customers and Clients
Posted by Claude Warner on Wednesday 10th February 2010 at 11:25:06
- Communication - the lifeblood of a (business) community
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Emotional Intelligence
- 1 + 1 = 3
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- All is not as it appears (to you)
Posted by Claude Warner on Saturday 3rd April 2010 at 10:11:52
- The Truth about Your Stress
Posted by Claude Warner on Friday 22nd January 2010 at 16:19:46
- Overcoming the Limiting Power of Assumption
Posted by Claude on Monday 27th July 2009 at 16:33:48
Successful Living
- Being Aware of Being Aware
Posted by Claude on Tuesday 13th April 2010 at 13:50:47
- Don't just work yourself, work on yourself
Posted by Claude Warner on Tuesday 9th March 2010 at 16:26:11
- Does the world know the real you?
Posted by Claude Warner on Tuesday 5th January 2010 at 14:43:47
- Is the journey the end or the means?
Posted by Claude Warner on Friday 27th November 2009 at 14:28:18
- My Vision and Mission
Posted by Claude on Friday 18th September 2009 at 11:45:09
- The 'Ensuement' of Happiness and Success
Posted by Claude on Friday 24th July 2009 at 17:39:22
Wisdom
- Since I accepted inevitability, I see possibility
Posted by Claude Warner on Thursday 25th February 2010 at 08:56:12
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- A Man is never Powerless
Posted by Claude Warner on Monday 25th January 2010 at 15:32:29
- Precepts of Wisdom
Posted by Claude on Monday 26th October 2009 at 14:31:33
What is really Important?
Posted by Claude Warner on Friday 14th May 2010 at 11:52:05
A previous article touched on the benefit of focusing our attention and energy on the “Important” in our lives?
Under Important we would tend to think about bigger picture, longer terms activities such as:
- Building relationships and networks.
- Strategic planning, execution, measurement and amendment.
- Following market trends and looking for new opportunities?
- Looking after our health.
If these are neglected, then Important can become Urgent, and we end up spending our time in crisis management and fighting fires, none of which produce positive results, only prevent negative ones.
Even though this is all true, sometimes one still has to step back and ask oneself “What is really Important?”
Before you think I am contradicting myself, let me tell me where I am coming from.
Last Saturday I attended the funeral of a wonderful man whose life ended at age 53. Different people spoke passionately about the role he had played in their lives as a brother, husband, father, leader, community worker and friend.
No one spoke about the opportunites he had capitalized on, of which, having been a CA, there were a few, or the strategic plans he conceived and flawlessly executed.
As we have seen, these are Important, but there are other things such as relationships that are also Important, possibly even more so.
The key to deciding on what is Important is to make sure that you consider the Important in all the roles of your life, not just business.
As a CEO, your roles include strategic planning, articulation of vision, people development and so on, but when it comes to prioritizing and time management, you need to consider all the roles you play.
In any one week, these activities in the following roles might be Important to you.
As a father, to watch your child play a sports match, as a husband, to take your wife to see a show, as a son, to pop in to visit your folks, as someone who cares for the community, to take your turn to help out at Animal Welfare or some other community project, for personal development, to read an uplifting book, as a friend, to meet with your mates for a round of golf, as a church member, to attend the church advisory board meeting etc.
We all play many roles, and unless we include what is Important in each of them in our time and priority management, things that are Important will not be given time or attention.
If there is something that you rate as Important that is happening in one of your roles this week, and your response is “next time or next month”, then you are out of alignment with your very own Important.
As we have seen, Important not attended is likely to become Urgent.
Neglect what is Important in these other roles and you could end up divorced, with delinquent children, estranged from your family, without friends, stagnating as a person, and suffering from chronic health conditions.
How much time and trouble is it going to take to attempt to rectify that, even if it is at all still possible, and what about the Importants in all your other roles whilst you are doing that?
So what is really Important to you?
If your life should suddenly end, who will be at your funeral, and what will they have to say about your role in their lives?
Claude Warner coaches successful leaders to improve their leadership performance by developing their emotional, relational, social and communication skills.
Emotionally intelligent leaders are able to connect and engage effectively with those they lead. They inspire high performance, retain key talent, and achieve organisational success at the lowest human capital cost.
Coaching is offered in PE at a fixed all-inclusive monthly rate. Claude can be contacted on 083 227 5153, info@claudewarner.com or further details on www.claudewarner.com
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