Leadership – Inspiring the Team to Achieve Goals

In Business, Leadership is about inspiring followers to achieve Team or Organizational goals. You may be a Team Leader or Manager in a Business, and you may have built the respect of your Team. Your next challenge is to get them focused in the right direction, the direction that will achieve their organizational goals.

How does a Team Leader persuade the Team to do this – to see the goals and to want to get there? How does a Leader inspire the Team? The ability to be inspirational is a key Leadership competency that can be practiced and learnt. There two critical keys to work on to provide inspirational leadership – selling the vision and persuading the Team that this is worth doing.

People want to know where they are going and why they should bother going there – what is in it for them. A poor Leader will state the targets and the objectives – figures this week, figures this month. An effective Leader can get higher figures and more committed followers by selling a positive outcome in a way that inspires.

Step 1 is to paint a positive picture of what exactly the end goal is. The goal must be positive – rather than negative, or what we should avoid doing. The art of always using positive language rather than negative is essential to leadership. For example we tell a Team Member what to do or ask for them for the right way – we don’t tell them what not to do. The reason is simple, it doesn’t work! If the waiter puts a very hot plate down in front of you and says – ‘Don’t touch that plate, it is very hot’, what will we do? Yes, we touch it!

When we are selling the goal, we paint the picture of the positive outcome – where we are going rather than not going. ‘I want us to be the highest performing Team in the business’ – rather than ‘We can’t be in the middle of the league this year’.

Paint a very clear picture of the end goal – the follower can see it and clearly visualize it. Make it really attractive and relevant for your particular group. ‘We are going to achieve so much that every new hire will want to come on this Team’.

Step 2 is to have a plan. How are we going to get there? You don’t have to have the whole plan – but you need step 1 and step 2 – and both of these must make sense to the Team. Identify quick wins – preferably generated from the Team itself, and present those as the first steps.

Step 3 is to sell it, to persuade them that it is worth doing and gain their buy-in. The language we use in effective leadership is real ‘selling’ language – all positive language and very relevant to your Team members. We state the ‘benefits’ of the end goal and the ‘benefits’ of the effort. First prepare a list of the benefits, then choose 2-3 under each heading, and then work out how to word these in a way that will come across well to your Team.

When identifying benefits, cover 5 areas –
1. The Company – what are the benefits to the Company of us achieving this goal? What is in it for them?
2. The Customer – what are the benefits for the Customer?
3. The Team – if we achieve this goal, in what way will the Team benefit?
4. The Team Leader / Manager – how will I benefit if the Team achieves achieve this goal?
5. The Team Member – what is in it for this Team Member / each Team Member?

Paint the picture of the goal first – what it is. Next comes the benefits, in the order listed above. Then bottom line the success vision and the ‘can do’ element.
Practice this and sell it well – you will definitely be on a path to providing effective leadership and to inspiring your Team.

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Stuart Lichtman Review - How To Get Lots Of Money For Anything Fast

Of the many books I've read on goal setting and achievement, nothing comes close to Stuart Lichtman's How To Get Lots Of Money For Anything Fast. As a sceptical Northerner from the UK, the title initially put me off. However, I was introduced to the book through an online business program. And I was determined to change my situation from a lack of money to one of abundance. The purchase of this book seemed a no brainer - and indeed it was!

Stuart Lichtman developed his strategy, which he describes in his book, during his studies at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He successfully tested his strategy, which he calls the cybernetic transposition technique, on a test group. 80% of the group achieved a seemingly impossible goal on the first try, after using Stuart Lichtman's strategy.

So how is this possible and will it work for you? The answer is yes, anyone can use this strategy to focus all parts of their mind on a single, specific outcome. The downside is that you'll have to do the work in the first place if you want to reap the rewards. Stuart himself generated $2.5 million in investment funding, using the technique. And thousands of others have achieved amazing results too.

My first reading of the book was a little rushed and I have to say I didn't work as hard as I should have. I had to come back to the book on my second reading before I actually did all the work involved in programming my subconscious mind to generate a successful outcome. After doing the required work in the book, and continuing to do the exercises, I had one of my most successful years ever, as a professional stunt performer.

At the time my goal wasn't specific to any income stream. I simply focused on increasing my income. So my results reflected this. On closer inspection and a different goal, the results became more specific to my online business.

So how does this work?

The Cybernetic Transposition technique works by using a memory of a past success and 'transposing' it to a new outcome which you want to achieve. This gets you to involve all parts of the brain. Because the old memory was real, your subconscious mind remembers all the stimulus from the experience. You then 'insert' a new experience but use an old memory.

When your mind doesn't know the difference, it's a very powerful tool. You can more effectively 'talk' to your subconscious mind in the feelings, emotions, smells and sights which it understands. By creating what Stuart calls a 'Meta-story', you can effectively talk to your subconscious about exactly what you want to create.

Then, once you start to do this, your unconscious mind will bring up any problems which it might have with your story. These are usually the things which prevent anyone from achieving their goals. These are your 'blockages' or your unconscious programming which stops you from achieving anything you want.

This is an important part of Stuart's Cybernetic Transposition Three Step Process. Develop a 'meta-story' and repeat it until it is programmed into your subconscious mind. As you repeat it, you rewrite it so that it fits more appropriately with any unconscious conflicts which you might have about your original goal.

This is an important part which many success manuals leave out. And it explains why so many of them fall short. Stuart's method absolutely works. But you need to work on it for it to work. It's not a simple strategy which requires you to only repeat a mantra to yourself. It's much more involved than that.

The work is worth the effort though. If you can understand and align your subconscious blockages, you'll have much more success than by only struggling towards any goal simply by working on the physical 'outside' process of achieving it.

Stuart's process allows you to align all parts of your brain to focus on your goal. When you do, you'll 'flag up' to your subconscious mind, what you really want. When you do this, your subconscious mind will be working on your goal, even while you sleep. When you're working on other things, your unconscious mind will be finding ways to bring about your goals.

If you've tried many success manuals and still haven't achieved the life you really want. I highly recommend getting this book and studying it.

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How to Set and Achieve any Goal you Have in Your Life - with John Assaraf Part 1

How can I create a compelling future?

How can I create a compelling future?

If you’re having trouble achieving with your goal setting, it’s tempting to just stop trying to make any changes. People say things like “Maybe this is just it,” or “I should settle for what I have instead.” But frequently what’s getting in the way of achievement is the actual goal. If your goal is “lose weight,” well, when do you know you’re done? When you’ve lost 1 pound? 5? 40? Without a clear target, it’s difficult to know when you’ve hit it.

Here we’ll cover how to run your own goal-setting workshop. You’ll learn what makes for compelling goals as well as the steps you need to take to see them through.

Why have goals anyway?

Having goals is the fundamental key to success. Goals let us create our future in advance of it actually happening. Setting goals help us grow and expand, pushing ourselves to transform in ways that, just maybe, we never imagined. We’re willing to bet if you’re reading this page you’ve set a goal or two in your life — but are you goal setting effectively? Will your goals transform your life in the ways you want?

Many times people set goals but never quite achieve them. One common reason is that their goals aren’t compelling or inspiring. You’re much more likely to put time and energy into something that excites you. We’re talking makes you leap out of bed in the morning ready to go. Think of a goal as a dream with a deadline. So how do you create a compelling goal?

The two key questions for compelling goal setting

1. Identify your goals: What do you want? Something almost magical happens when you take generalized desires and start defining them more precisely through goal setting.
2. Identify your purpose: Why do you want it? What will it bring you? If you know what you’re moving towards, you’ll find ways to make it happen. Remember: reasons come first, then the answers.

Oh, and if this all sounds familiar to you, great! Repetition is the mother of all skills, so you’re on your way to becoming master of your goals, and, thus, your future.

Create and maintain momentum with S.M.A.R.T. goals

When setting goals, make sure they follow these principles. A goal should be:

• Specific: The more detailed you can be, the better. “I want to lose 20 pounds” is a good start, but “I want to lose 20 pounds so that I can wear my favorite clothes again this June,” makes it easier to visualize and achieve what you want.
• Measurable: Here precision is your friend. When you can measure, you’ll actually see your progress and know when you achieve it. Concrete criteria helps everyone stay on track. For example, “get better at money” is not measurable; it’s unclear what “better” means here. But have the goal to understand your current spending patterns, pay off your credit cards, and start saving 25% of your income per month by the end of the year — now you have benchmarks that you can achieve and recalibrate if necessary.
• Achievable: If you can’t actually attain your goal it will only serve to frustrate and dishearten you. You’re not going to create a billion-dollar business or become a world-class concert pianist overnight. Many times when we’re creating big goals we get too lofty, making them seem impossible. This leads us to the next element…
• Realistic: Perhaps in an ideal world you’d have six hours a day to work on your golf swing or tennis game. You live in the real world, not an ideal one, so make sure you’re setting goals that match up with reality.
• (in a) Time Frame: Having a clear idea of your timeline creates a sense of urgency. You’ll be working towards what you want more quickly.

Having this level of clarity puts power behind your goals and ensures you can measure your progress more often and take new actions. Ready to try making some goals of your own? Click below to start your very own goals workshop, Tony-style. You’ll need some paper and a pen or pencil, so grab those before you click.

Goal Setting Step 1: Take 6 minutes and brainstorm a list of anything you’d like to achieve, create, do, have, give, and/or experience in the next 20 years. Write as many things down as fast as you can in this time.

Goal Setting Step 2: Now go back through your list and write 1, 3, 5, 10, or 20 years next to each goal to indicate how long it will take to achieve them. You have a minute and a half to get this done, so be quick and go with your gut.

Goal Setting Step 3: Review your list. Choose your top four 1-year goals. These are goals that make you really excited. Write a paragraph for each goal explaining why you will absolutely achieve this goal within the next 12 months. This should take you about 15-20 minutes total.

Now, if you have the chance to share what you’ve written down with a friend, family member or other person you trust, do so. If not, just say them out loud to yourself.

Final concept? There are 3 steps in Personal Power — put your goals where you’ll see them daily, write down and take at least one action towards achieving your goals, and the rocking chair test: visualize yourself older and looking back. What’s the pain from not achieving, and what is the pleasure from having achieved your goals?.

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