Kneale Mann
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In more than 25 years, I have been a brand manager, promotion director, talent coach, business strategist, professional speaker, marketing director, radio announcer, published writer, executive producer, blogger and leadership development consultant. My company is YouIntegrate because my passion is to help you integrate all you do with all you do. I enjoy collaborating with medium to large organizations to develop and implement sound business, leadership and marketing strategies to improve collaboration, communication and increase revenue. Let's see how I can help you and your organization!
Chris - Great piece, as always. Dan - I look forward to your new book! Keep inspiring, guys!!
Great post, Brian. Leadership is a lifelong journey, not a job title, and I know you agree with that too! Proven leadership allows for mistakes, adjustments, and growth. Elway carried the Broncos on his shoulders for most of his career and didn't always win yet he was a leader. And in my humble opinion, he didn't sign Manning to buy a Super Bowl. He signed Peyton for his leadership and his ability to inspire others to become leaders. That's how you build a winner.
Great points Chris. Jack Canfield once said, we need to turn our inner critic into an inner coach. Laugh off the technical, know your material cold, practice it without a slide deck until you know it cold, and if (when) something goes sideways, keep going, most of your audience didn't even notice or care.
I remind my clients, they aren't doing a presentation, they are presenting an idea. As soon as one person asks you away from the script and PowerPoint about your idea, all the tools in the world won't matter. Save your apologies for people when you need to truly and honestly need to own it.
Always proofread your copy so you don't a word. Oh and always assume someone is recording you or taking your picture to broadcast it online later.
Pro Life vs Pro Choice (aka not pro death). GOP vs Democrats. Diesel vs Gas. The arguments continue and the minds change minimally if at all. Over to you, Dennis Miller.
@westfallonline You and I agree that leadership guidance is necessary for managers, directors, vps and the c-suite but it must also be available for millennials who bring ideas that are paramount to the enterprise. Don't squash the spirit simply because you don't understand or don't want to understand. And that goes for the 55 year old president as well as the 23 year old up and comer. Both are right, both make mistakes, both can learn from each other. Someone gave that president a shot and it wasn't when she became a manager.
In some companies, there are four or five generations working together and the org chart shouldn't be the only barometer that breaks the tie. If that was the case, we would be the first era in human existence where we failed to learn from the wisdom of our elders while encouraging the growth of young minds. That includes helping when they make mistakes, not pushing them through the system or up the ladder.
Great reminder, Margie and we must also remember that others don't decide our worth, that's up to us. They aren't judge and jury on our value unless we give them that power.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" Eleanor Roosevelt
Great reminders, Chris! A mentor once reminded me to be a mouse with elephant ears.
Pom poms are easy. Taking credit for a successful project is simple. Having an open door policy when the sun is shining is a piece of cake. Properly outlining what you need, how you will help your team build their strengths, being there when they need you, and standing behind them, are requisite to your role. If you can't or won't do that, you aren't a leader and your compensation package is nothing short of robbery.
My internal dreamer and thinker gang up on my external doer all the time. The doer is critical but the dreamer and thinker are allowed to tag along. Make time for think time but don't confuse it with progress until you begin to move.
Well, Miles Austin, it is clear that Miles Austin has shown an excellent example of keyword stuffing. As Miles Austin would point out, Miles Austin would never such a thing simply to get Miles Austin higher the search results for Miles Austin.
Great piece, Miles, I kid but Miles Austin appreciated the nods. :-)
@DannyBrown - I'm on the road next week. Shoot me an email and we'll book something soon!
@samfiorella @DannyBrown - In a hundred years, no one will care. We can probably move on.
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@DannyBrown - No! They keep hiding the delete your profile option - find it for me and bye bye klout. Link please!
@DannyBrown @markwschaefer @samfiorella - That may be true. I have not had anyone at Johnson & Johnson (one of my clients) ask me for my Klout score when I do leadership consulting. We will always keep score, that's what we do or we wouldn't have counters on everything.
I often remark back to when I ran radio stations and my morning team felt compelled to rip on the team across the street. For what purpose? Pay attention gives attention. Or as the Bard once inked, me think doth protest too much. Not one client or prospect has ever asked for my influence scores. I don't suspect they ever will so it deserves no attention.
I love your passion as always, my friend. The flag for me always goes up when someone complains that an entity speaks on behalf of a generation to be replaced by their own commentary about said generation.
When I think of the history of humans, our blip in time represents a mere blink of an eye next to a couple of hundred thousand years of evolution. So it is arrogant for us - no matter our age - to think what we are more evolved than previous generations.
As you make assumptions for what every human within a certain demographic is thinking, writing or feeling, be careful you aren't speaking too broadly about your own age group as well. You may think millennials are this or generation x is that, but it is simply opinion mixed with assumption.
Zuckerberg is running the largest social network on earth while my buddy's 25 year old son won't get out of bed before noon. There is a kid who grew up half an hour from my office who has raised money for clean water in Africa - look up Ryan's Well. He started his foundation when he was six.
We can't assume all boomers think all millennials are a certain way. There are exceptions to every rule and age is certainly not the only indicator.
@Nichole Santoro The paradigm shift is on!
At the end of the day, when all is said and done, more will be said than done. We'd be calling the kettle black if we went the whole nine yards. So break a leg, let the rubber hit the road and let your hair down. On the other hand, you may want to burn the midnight oil and bowl it down. Keep the home fires burning, don't look a gift horse in the mouth and give it a hundred and ten percent.