Insights on Achieving With Purpose, Power & Passion
Emerging Leadership Success … with HorsePower! – Keep Things Simple
Keep Things Simple
The best leaders know that the key to success is keeping things simple! At the end of the day, most things in any kind of business come down to “Basic HorseSense”:
· Attracting people, clients, customers – being likeable, communicating and listening
· Selling or producing results at a price which is higher than costs
· Always exceeding expectations – building credibility
· Producing or delivering your service in the most efficient way – efficiencies
· Looking after your team and keeping them motivated – positive reinforcement
· Looking after your customers, clients, associates – show appreciation
· Develop solid relationships
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Women Matter!
Female Leadership is the competitive edge for the future!
Women have the edge and natural advantages for what’s required for success.
When they understand gender differences and collaborate with EVERYONE in the workplace – great things happen!
Stay tuned for extensive HORSEPOWER techniques in Communication between Men and Women in the Workplace!
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TED Talk: How Body Language and Micro Expressions Predict Success – Patr…
This is so interesting. What is your body language saying about you? What about your micro expressions? Communication is not just the words you say. After you watch this video, click here to check out my article on Emotional Intellegence.
Emerging Leadership Success … with HorsePower!: Focus
I recently gave a 90 minute keynote to a group of new leaders and managers for a multi-location healthcare organization. It generated a high level of enthusiasm with a group largely made up of talented, driven millennials.
When many young managers reach leadership roles, they struggle to achieve the results they want. Focus is one of qualities emerging leaders should consider …
If you are leading a team, department or entire organization, here are some things you need to Focus on:
· What you want to achieve in the short term
· What you want to create in the long term
· What you want to create for others
· What you want to achieve in the short term
· What you want to create in the long term
· What you want to create for others
Remember, stay focused and you will be a successful manager, at work and in life.
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“Puppy Training … with HorsePower!”
Our new little puppy, Molly Mae turned 4 months old today!
She is an adorable 6# Maltipoo and already knows how to “sit, stay, down, come, play ball, heel and walk on her hind legs” (check out the video)!
Now before you think I’ve lost my mind creating a Newsletter about “puppy training”… there’s a reason I’m excited to share why I think Molly, this journey and HorsePower is so amazing!
The components in “Communicating with HorsePower” go way beyond horses, people, organizations and teams… they work with Molly too!
Here’s what I’ve learned…
1. To get the best from horses, dogs and especially people you need to understand what their telling you and REALLY LISTEN! One of the many pleasures of getting a new puppy is the chance to become familiar with the messages their sending to you and to watch them start understanding what you’re telling them…with your voice, facial expressions, gestures and total body language!
2. Dogs have their own intuitive body language and to be a good, positive teacher for Molly, I need to understand her “language” and send clear, concise and fluent messages to her! I’m thinking of it as “putting myself in her paws”!
3. Wolves and dogs have identical DNA and their instinctive preference for living is in a pack (just like horses prefer a herd and people prefer a team). But to be a leader in the pack, herd and team unit – you must be authentic, respectful, honest and demonstrate integrity… or you won’t be the leader very long!
4. Molly came to us 6 weeks ago healthy, cheerful, energetic and with an inquisitive, positive attitude toward the world. I’m giving her the same attitude back, staying upbeat and spending time to get to know her individuality, skills and personality… we’re in a cooperative partnership working together!
So, I’m being patient, positive, consistent and persistent (OMG…there’s the true meaning of HorsePower again!), really focused on Molly and listening intently! I praise her often – reinforcing good behavior and I appreciate her wonder!
Molly has her own spirit. Separate and unique. Just like all of us!
Take care…and remember to …
“Ride Every Stride…with HorsePower!”
Betti
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Four Key Energy Elements: Spiritual Energy
The Fourth Key Energy Element is Spiritual Energy. Defining, reflecting upon, and regularly revisiting our core values and our larger purpose at work is a powerful source of energy and direction. The challenge is that introspection requires quiet, uninterrupted time, an incredibly scarce commodity in today’s world.
Few of us pause regularly to think about why we are doing what we are doing, where we are headed, or what consequences are likely to be. Instead we spend our days feeling compelled to act, react and transact.
Did you know that 60% of employees feel their decisions at work are often more influenced by external demands rather than by a strong, clear sense of their own purpose? Also, 58% of employees feel there are significant gaps between what they say is important in their life and how they actually live.
An organization is a human community that can realize its highest potential only when each individual is fully valued and feels fully vested in a shared purpose. The better peoples needs are met, the better they feel and the better the organization functions as a whole. A company that invests in its people across all dimensions of their lives and rallies them around an inspiring purpose is actually investing in itself.
The impact of low spiritual energy causes lack of passion and commitment,
decreased commitment, and dramatically increases turnover!
How are your employees feeling about their purpose at work?
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Four Key Energy Elements: Mental Energy
Did you know 76% of employees spend too much of their time reacting to immediate demands rather than focusing on activities with longer-term leverage? 69% of employees have difficulty focusing on one thing at a time and are easily distracted during the day – especially by email
Multi-Tasking
• Many people pride themselves on being great multi-taskers…this is actually
a misnomer!
• Human brains process information sequentially and cannot process two
cognitive tasks at the same time. What their really doing is “task switching.
• This movement between tasks prompts significant costs! It’s incredibly less
efficient!
Impact of low mental energy:
- Continuous partial attention increases completion time by 25% and errors by 30%
- Short term reactive thinking drives narrow, shallow, and less nuanced results instead of creative problem solving, spotting trends, and higher level analysis.
- Lack of boundaries and clear end points to work leads to burnout and turnover.
- Increased distractions diminish feelings of accomplishment and job satisfaction.
Our attention is under siege! More information than ever is instantly available to us, and it is coming at us in more ways than ever.
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Four Key Energy Elements: Focus on the Physical
Physical Energy is one of the Four Key Energy Elements.
There are many issues that accompany low physical energy:
- Fatigue leads to errors, lack of focus, susceptibility to illness, and a poor quality of emotion
- Lack of exercise leads to increased production of stress hormones, anxiety, and difficulty focusing (particularly late in the day)
- Working continuously burns down glucose and oxygen, extending tasks completion time and increasing errors
How does this translate at work?
- 58% of employees don’t take regular breaks during the day to renew and recharge
- 59% of employees don’t regularly get 7-8 hours of sleep and/or often wake up feeling tired
What about sleep?
- No single behavior more fundamentally influences effectiveness during waking life than sleep!
- More than 95% of us need at least 7-8 hours of sleep every night in order to feel rested
When it comes to productivity, its not the number of hours employees work that determines the value they produce, but rather the quantity, quality and focus of energy they bring to the hours they work!
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How effectively do you manage your personal energy elements?
Through Communicating with HorsePower, I have developed the Four Key HorsePower Energy Elements, a guideline to Measuring Human Power!
Four Key Energy Elements
1. Physical – Health
The way were working…isn’t working!
· 70% of American Employees are disengaged at work!
How effectively do you manage your personal energy elements?
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Leadership, Rowing, and HorsePower!
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to work with the Creighton University Women’s Rowing Team for the 2nd year in a row! It was an honor to be with these intelligent, driven, motivated and invested young women!
Rowing is a tough sport! I got to be with them on the water and once again realized…
The team is up at 5:30 AM six days a week to practice.
They “row as one”, their incredibly proficient and as tough as nails!
The average race consists of 200-230 strokes and takes 7 minutes!
Everyone has to do the same thing at the same time and the strokes must be absolutely consistent. This takes complete concentration…and tremendous teamwork, leadership and communication!
Rowing is one of the best models of teamwork! It’s the ultimate team sport!
In rowing you have the power of everyone in the boat and on this team everyone is both valued and part of something bigger. The egos and personal agenda’s won’t work because if everyone were to follow their own paths…they’d be spinning in circles!
This year we really concentrated on “Emerging Leadership Skills” because the leadership opportunities in rowing are incredible – and will help prepare these young leaders for their future positions. An example….the coxswains job is to know what the teams needs are at any time. To know where their heads are at and be able to channel that energy! They need to correct the course making small adjustments and movements – because changes in direction make a big impact! And, most importantly, they need to have the respect and trust of their team to win!
In rowing there is a very unique communication…using non-verbal, unspoken interaction! It incorporates body language and tactile feel to “hear” how everyone is rowing -“hear” the balance -“hear” the synchronization!
Rowing is Dedication, Focus, Rhythm and Trust. It’s consistency in discipline! Teamwork and Focus are critical!
HorsePower is “Riding Every Stride”! Its sustained effort, focus, steadiness, work and consistency done over time that produces results!
Wow…Rowing and HorsePower…what a combination!
The powerful messages and lessons in teamwork, leadership and communication will have an impact on these talented young women!
HorsePower will help YOU stay the course toward achieving your goals and realizing success!
Give me a call today and let’s talk!
Ride every stride…with HorsePower!
Betti
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