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Thought Tweet #827

by Rick Baker
On Sep 17, 2013

Thought Tweet #827 Good followers want to vent their strengths. And you want to see strength in action...am I right!

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Good followers want their talents, knowledge, and skills to be linked to opportunities. 

Good followers expect their leaders to generate those opportunities.

 

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Solutions & Opportunities | STRENGTHS: People-Focused for Success | Thought Tweets

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Thought Tweet #826.5

by Rick Baker
On Sep 16, 2013

Thought Tweet #826.5 We are problem specialists, each of us able to attract an ongoing series of a certain type of problem.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Many of us don't see the problems coming let alone see we are the specialists who create them, with the huge capacity of help delivered by our unique talent shortfalls in certain areas. 

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Solutions & Opportunities | STRENGTHS: People-Focused for Success | Thought Tweets

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Finding & Keeping Top-Notch People - some questions

by Rick Baker
On Sep 16, 2013

Some questions to consider…

  • What’s your most-successful recruiting technique?
  • What 3 words would you use to sum up your best younger person?
  • When it comes to recruiting, what’s changed in the last 10 years?
  • Training leaders & managers: how do you go about that?
  • Do younger people have an attitude of ‘entitlement’?
  • Do you take special actions to take care of your best people? If so, what actions?
  • Can you influence your people’s loyalty? If so, how?

 

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Leaders' Thoughts | Questions?: The Art of Asking Good Questions

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Thought Tweet #826

by Rick Baker
On Sep 16, 2013

Thought Tweet #826 Focused effort becomes contagious. You want to make effort contagious...am I right!

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

When intelligent followers know the vision and see a leader illustrate willpower and self-control to achieve that vision, they emulate that skill. 

Leaders succeed when they act in ways that illustrate intelligence, self-control, and focused drive.

 

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Influencing | Leaders' Thoughts | Thought Tweets

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Thought Tweet #825

by Rick Baker
On Sep 13, 2013

Thought Tweet #825 All great leaders are driven to create change and magnetize the minds and actions of other people.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

All great leaders are driven to construction. 

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Change: Creating Positive Change | Leaders' Thoughts | Thought Tweets

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Thought Tweet #825.5

by Rick Baker
On Sep 13, 2013

Thought Tweet #825.5 It isn't about who you are. It's about what you do and whether or not other people understand why you do what you do.


The Thinking Behind The Tweet

When people understand you they judge you more accurately...and - won't that be a good thing?

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Change: Creating Positive Change | Communication: Improving Communication | Thought Tweets

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