The Team Leadership Report

If children live with criticism,  they learn to condemn. If children live with hostility,  they learn to fight. If children live with fear,  they learn to be apprehensive. If children live with pity,  they learn to feel sorry for themselves. If children live with ridicule,  they learn to feel shy. If children live with jealousy,  they learn to feel envy. If children live with shame,  they learn to feel guilty. If children live with encouragement,  they learn confidence. If children live with tolerance,  they learn patience. If children live with praise,  they learn appreciation. If children live with acceptance,  they learn to love. If children live with approval,  they learn to like themselves. If children live with recognition,  they learn it is good to have a goal. If children live with sharing,  they learn generosity. If children live with honesty,  they learn truthfulness. If children live with fairness,  they learn justice. If

I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that. Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble. --John Chaney The first things good teachers do is demonstrate patience. The teacher must always have patience. And you have to listen to those under your supervision. I think anyone in a position of supervision, if they're not listening to those under them, they're not going to get good results. -- John Wooden I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. I

The ability to maintain a lead depends to a degree on the team's ability to accept the opponent's challenge and to continue to do the things that helped get the lead in the first place. The leading team is generally more cautious--sometimes overcautious. The leading team generally tightens up and the leading team often becomes complacent and senses victory much too soon. Many times in the large lead situations, good players have the tendency to play like their opponent and this can not be tolerated. Maintaining the lead depends on steady offensive and defensive efforts which are at least comparable to those of the opponent. It depends on maintaining momentum, continuing to do the things that have proven successful. A team improves by playing to its potential not by conforming to the losing team's effort.  ________________________________________________________________________ A Season In Words by Dan Spainhour $19.95

There are basically three ways to motivate people in general and team members specifically.  Fear —This is not good. Number one, it isn’t right, and number two, it doesn’t work well in the long run and isn't good for the overall health of the organization. Yet, still there are people who use it. They make blatant or veiled threats in order to get people to work. There is a better way. Incentives —John Maxwell says that “What gets rewarded, gets done.” This is the technique that says, “If you do this, then you will get this.” The problem is that people will be led this way for a while, and it will surely be productive. Yet eventually, most people come to the end of being driven by incentive. This is because most people are innately driven by something even deeper. Growth —Personal growth. Do you ever wonder how the personal growth industry has gotten so huge? It is because it scratches an itch that lies within each person. Every person has within them

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a business and self-help book written by Stephen R. Covey. It has sold more than 15 million copies in 38 languages worldwide, and the audio version has sold 1.5 million copies, and remains one of the best selling nonfiction business books. Covey presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to what he calls "true north" principles of a character ethic that he presents as universal and timeless. In August 2011 Time listed Seven Habits as one of "The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books". U.S. President Bill Clinton read the book and invited Covey to Camp David to counsel him on how to integrate the book into his presidency.The book first introduces the concept of paradigm shift and prepares the reader for a change in mindset. It helps the reader understand that a different perspective exists, a viewpoint that may be different from his or her own, a

1) Speak the truth. 2) Don't hide bad news. 3) Never over-promise. 4) Do what you say you will do.     The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (10th Anniversary Edition)

A 24 year old young man was traveling with his dad. Looking out from a train’s window he shouted… “Dad, look the trees are going behind!” Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity. Suddenly he again exclaimed…“Dad, look the clouds are running with us!” The couple could not resist and said to the old man…“Why don’t you take your son to a good doctor?” The old man smiled and said “I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today." Every single person on the planet has a story. Don’t judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you. _______________________________________________________ Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls