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Courage – An Important Management Skill – Part 3 of 4 Part Series

This is part 3 of a 4 part series on how courage is a key management skill in the workplace.  Look back into past articles in this blog or visit us at www.boldnewdirections.com or http://www.managementtraininginstitute.com

To manage with courage, practice first by taking small steps.

When you are totally clear on why you want to overcome a previously fear-laden obstacle, find ways to gently work with it (practice). Trying to do a 180° turn-around leads too often to failure.  Start with baby steps.

A personal story.  Until the age of 30, I was extremely shy, and I hated how emotionally crippled my shyness made me feel. My discontent was my impetus to change. Slowly I began stretching my comfort zone, reaching out a little here, saying something extra there. Now, I get paid some mighty fine dollars to stand in front of groups and speak. And I love it! 

When I decided I needed to overcome my shyness, I did not go out that day and give a Keynote address in front of 500 people. That’s insanity. No, incremental practice steps is usually the way to go. Building up your courage little by little is one effective way of moving forward.

Want to know more?  Look for part 4 of this series in the coming days.

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Adapted from the book Managing From The Inside Out by Jim Hornickel, Director Training & Development, Bold New Directions. For more resources about how to increase your management skills through management training, leadership training, or teambuilding team visit our website at http://www.managementtraininginstitute.com or learn about management training at https://boldnewdirections.com

 

 

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Courage – An Important Management Skill – Part 3 of 4 Part Series

This is part 3 of a 4 part series on how courage is a key management skill in the workplace.  Look back into past articles in this blog or visit us at www.boldnewdirections.com or http://www.managementtraininginstitute.com

To manage with courage, practice first by taking small steps.

When you are totally clear on why you want to overcome a previously fear-laden obstacle, find ways to gently work with it (practice). Trying to do a 180° turn-around leads too often to failure.  Start with baby steps.

A personal story.  Until the age of 30, I was extremely shy, and I hated how emotionally crippled my shyness made me feel. My discontent was my impetus to change. Slowly I began stretching my comfort zone, reaching out a little here, saying something extra there. Now, I get paid some mighty fine dollars to stand in front of groups and speak. And I love it! 

When I decided I needed to overcome my shyness, I did not go out that day and give a Keynote address in front of 500 people. That’s insanity. No, incremental practice steps is usually the way to go. Building up your courage little by little is one effective way of moving forward.

Want to know more?  Look for part 4 of this series in the coming days.

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Adapted from the book Managing From The Inside Out by Jim Hornickel, Director Training & Development, Bold New Directions. For more resources about how to increase your management skills through management training, leadership training, or teambuilding team visit our website at http://www.managementtraininginstitute.com or learn about management training at https://boldnewdirections.com

 

 

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Courage – A Key Management Skill That Can Be Developed with Training – Part 2 of 4 Parts

Building the management skill of courage: What’s in it for you?

This is part 2 of a 4 part series on how COURAGE is an essential management skill.  How do you develop courage?  When does it become part of your everyday management practice?  Read on to learn more about this valuable component of your professional management expertise.

While practice is a big part of the formula to build a greater capacity for courage, the other essential component is motivation. It’s so important to pin down why you want to be more courageous in a certain sphere. What will you gain by acting more boldly? What’s in it for you?  The answer you come up with is your incentive.  Your motivation needs to be stronger than your fear.  When you’ve uncovered your incentive, make it bigger than life. Write it, draw it, say it (via affirmations), and show it. Make your desire for courage so real that there’s no room for inner denial. You are clear!

Ready for more?  Look for parts 3 & 4 of this interesting article on how courage becomes a critical management skill when developed with care and persistence.  

Adapted from the book Managing From The Inside Out by Jim Hornickel, Director Training & Development, Bold New Directions. For more resources about how to increase your management skills through management training, leadership training, or teambuilding team visit our website at http://www.managementtraininginstitute.com or learn about management training at https://boldnewdirections.com

 

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Courage – A Critical Management Skill That Can Be Developed with Training – Part 1 of 4 Parts

This is part one of a four part series on Courage as a Critical Management Skill.

What is courage?  And how does it fit with our thoughts on management?  It’s true that there are extraordinary circumstances, whether chosen or thrust upon us, where courage is clearly necessary. Think of the courage of astronauts who willingly travel through 240,000 miles of frozen, airless space to walk on the moon. Or the courage of hundreds of thousands of firefighters who intentionally walk into burning houses.

For the rest of us, life also demands courage, in small and large ways. It can take major courage to walk out of a relationship we know isn’t right for us. It can take courage to ask a tough boss, or even a nice boss, for a raise. Encountering a grizzly in the wild may produce valid physical fear; but why do some of us fear asking the boss for a raise?  Being afraid of emotional wounding, not physical harm, drives that timidity.  Its worth looking at courage and how this key skill can help our management at work.


The importance of practice in developing courage as one of your key management skills

In most cases, courage is the inner strength needed to overcome our fears. But how do we consciously summon up the courage we need when we need it? And how can we grow this key management skill for use in the workplace?

Growing our courage means that we must first be able to acknowledge when a situation triggers an inner fear, and then be willing to shift from one state to another. These steps can be practiced, and just like muscles that need strengthening, the more practice the better.  Since we recognize courage as a critical management skill its worth knowing some practical methods to grow your innate capacity for courage.  It could be that training will be a strategic method of improving your management skill of courage.

Here’s an example. At Bold New Directions, one of our management training programs consists of a two-day training called Powerful Presentations. In this management training program, we have seen thousands of people start off by delivering their benchmark presentations feeling anxious and scared. You can tell by the soft voice projection, the aversion of eye contact, the wandering feet, and the hands that fly about nervously as if they were independent entities.  But by the end of day two, after only 16 hours of practice, 95% of those participating in this management training program, looked and sounded like poised presenters who had had years of experience. Confidence came from their willingness to face their fears (courage) and from the comfort, familiarity and strength they gained through practice, practice, practice!

If you want to develop courage, take a look around your workplace for areas that you are avoiding. Try taking small steps to grow this key management skill so that you can feel and be more successful. 

Adapted from the book Managing From The Inside Out by Jim Hornickel, Director Training & Development, Bold New Directions. For more resources about how to increase your management skills through management training, leadership training, or teambuilding team visit our website at http://www.managementtraininginstitute.com or learn about management training at https://boldnewdirections.com

 

 

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Boost Presentation Skills With Training On How To Bookend Your Remarks

Bookends Boost Presentation Impact

Have you ever wondered how to start your presentation? Lots of people struggle with how to open up their remarks. Even more worry about how to have a powerful close. Learn how bookending your presentation takes the stress of both these problems away. Bookends are simply communication devices and presentation tools that you use at both the opening and closing of your comments. They can range from a story, to a quote, to a combination of statistics and questions. The point is to use powerful hooks at the beginning of your presentation as your first bookend. Then re-use the same hooks at the end of your presentation comments, but with a closing twist. These bookends really work well with questions. For example, you may start by asking your audience a powerful question then close by asking them the question again.

For example, you may start by saying:  "Did you know that less than 10% of professionals have set aside enough money for retirement?". Then in the middle of your presentation remarks outline a plan for saving for retirement successfully. In closing, to use your bookend again for reinforcement by asking "And how many of you would like to be in that 10% of professionals who have signficant retirement savings?". 

As a powerful presenter, your presentation remarks will emphasize all the audience has learned in between the opening and the closing bookend.  If you want additional information on how to hone your presentation skills visit our website to get a free copy of report on how to Master Your Presentation Skills at https://boldnewdirections.com or at http://www.presentationtraininginstitute.com

 

 

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