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Advancing Your Career
As your career advances, you move along the scale from employee, to supervisor to manager
and finally, to leader. Managers, and some leaders, engage in what is called transactional
leadership, the deployment and management of people and resources to get results.

Arouse Emotion In Others
However, at the highest end of the leadership scale, we come to what is called
"transformational leadership." Transformational leadership is defined as leadership that
arouses emotion, that taps into the emotional and spiritual resources of an organization.
Transformational leadership empowers people to greatly exceed their previous levels of
accomplishment.

Make People Feel Terrific
Empowerment is the key. Transformational leaders are those who can elicit extraordinary
performance from ordinary men and women. The superior leader is like a catalyst in a
chemical process that causes the other ingredients to work together in a superior fashion.

The Key Leadership Abilities
Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is
absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and
women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and
assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

Everyone is Different
Of course, everyone you meet has different values, opinions, attitudes, beliefs, cultural
values, work habits, goals, ambitions, and dreams. Because of this incredible diversity of
human resources, it has never been more difficult and yet more necessary for diplomatic
leaders to emerge and form these people into high-performing teams.

Do What Other Leaders Do
Fortunately, leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other
excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then
you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people. As a
leader, you combine your personal competencies with the competencies of a variety of others
into a smoothly functioning team that can out-play and out-perform all its competitors. When
you become a team leader, even if your team only consists of one other person, you must
immediately develop a whole new set of leadership skills.

Focus On What's Right vs. Who's Right
Whenever you have problems, misunderstandings, or difficulties within the team, you
reexamine your values, your goals, your activities, your assignments, and your
responsibilities. You are more concerned with what’s right than with who’s right. Leaders are
more concerned with winning than with not losing. High-Performing teams run by excellent
leaders, are determined to perform in an excellent fashion. All members know that their ability
to work together in harmony and cooperation is the key to the success of every one of them.

Aim at a Common Goal
The wonderful thing about becoming a leader in your work and personal life is that you can
practice the skills of influencing and persuading others toward a common objective. You can
promote the principles of excellent teamwork by establishing your values and goals,
determining your activities, and then leading the action. And you can improve yourself by
continually evaluating your performance against your standards.

Only Compare Yourself With Yourself
One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They
only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future
potential. You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and
higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those
standards.

The more proficient you become at getting the results for which you were hired, the more
opportunities you will have to get results through others. And your ability to put together a
team and then to lead that team to high performance will enable you to accelerate your career
and fulfill your goals faster than ever before.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to put these ideas into into action:

First, think about specific things you can do to work more effectively with the different people
on your team.

Second, set high standards for yourself and for each person and then dedicate yourself to
achieving those standards.

Success Quotes

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and does it well.
-- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer

You don’t have to see the top of the staircase to take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, civil rights leader

Living according to God's will is the easiest way to live,
but doing that may not be easy, since the ego is so used to
having things the way it wants.

If you are out of balance emotionally, mentally,
financially, or sexually, you are probably coming from the
ego and being "will-full" and not doing God's will. We are
given the tools of the emotions and the mind to help guide
us through our journey on this planet.

When you experience an imbalance in any of these areas, that
is an indicator that something is not quite right.

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill, British prime minister

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you
grow.
Les Brown

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has
accomplished wonders.
-- George P. Burnham

"In helping others, we shall help ourselves,
for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to
us."
Flora Edwards

When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and
sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up.
-- J Peterman

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need
completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson

Transform impossibilities into possibilities… and possibilities into certainties. You’ll
find practical, working instructions on using the Impossibility Transformer to forever
change the way you view “problems”:

"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your
energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."
Denis Waitley

Goal Never set is a goal never met
Overseer Hollis Rhodes

Hollis Rhodes
The Motivator