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Right Fit Leading: Motivation is Choice, Effort, Persistence

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Choice refers to either getting people to select an action on their own or making a case for why they should take the path the leader or the group recommends. Effort is about how much energy a person gives to an initiative. Persistence is when people keep trying even if they don’t believe their effort and energy is enough. This is ultimately about faith. A motivational leader can inspire the kind of adrenaline in a person that allows them to move past their hesitations, find energy where there is none, and believe even if they don’t have all the reasons for that belief. Leader communications should reinforce these concepts to motivate people. Get Published: If you have some great ideas about leadership communication and its importance, check out the call for chapters for a new book, Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue and Understanding Human Communication in the Digital Age. It\’s not too late to submit a chapter, or get more information, here: Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue.

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Submission Deadline Extended: Interpersonal Dialogue Call for Chapter Proposals

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We have extended the deadline to submit chapters to May 1. You still have a chance to join the project! Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue and Understanding Human Communication in the Digital Age A book edited by Michael A. Brown Sr, PhD, Florida International University, and Leigh Hersey, Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Monroe Introduction Human communication is struggling in what is a global crisis. Society no longer fosters face-to-face interactions. Compounded by the influence of the digital world, digitally-driven interactions in a multi-generation society have resulted in personal interactions that are fraught with limited feedback, erroneous and incomplete information leading to misunderstandings, even confrontations. Digital collaborations are abundant, but can be problematic as an incomplete solution to the human need for comprehensive communication. The 5,000 digital messages the average American receives daily lack full-process interactions from sender to receiver to feedback (see note). This creates communication based on missing information, gaps in communication, misinterpretation of language and other barriers. Human communication distinguishes face-to-face communication as a priority over online or digital interactions. This is not to downplay the electronic arena; just to highlight the connection between people that involves the five senses. Objective of the Book Dr. Brown’s previous work in Solutions for High-Touch Communication in a High-Tech World (IGI Global, March 2017) sets the stage for a full examination of human communication in today’s society by comparing online and face-to-face interactions. This book takes advantage of that foundation and develops solutions for success in academia and in business by analyzing various types of face-to-face and digital interactions in terms of comprehension and relationship-building. The integration of techniques for all human communication gives people resources to be successful collaborators in contemporary society. This is an approach you won’t find in any one book today. Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 1, 2017, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Submit your proposal at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2660.

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Right Fit Leading: Do We Connect?

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Do we connect? People post, but do they read? People talk, but do they listen? People hear, but do they understand? Let\’s find the answers together. Add your voice, and your research, by submitting a chapter to my upcoming book on interpersonal dialogue. Submit at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2660.

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Right Fit Leading: Leaders Set the Standard

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Great leaders set the bar at a very high level, getting out front, setting the standard, making decisions, and either willing or convincing people to follow and achieve. The way to do this is through need satisfaction, creating energy, and putting people first. Satisfy their needs. If you help people find what they seek they will follow you anywhere. If you can’t satisfy their needs, create an environment or a process by which this can be done. Emphasize relationships that are physically, spiritually, and emotionally beneficial. Recommend that your team members focus on the importance of family first, believing in something beyond themselves, and seeking to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Create team energy. Enthusiasm, passion and commitment are contagious when they are public. Let your team gain energy as they emulate this kind of drive in their leadership. Don’t mistake activity for energy. Do the things that matter and the positive energy that will be created will spark your organization to do great things. Always, always, always put people first. Instead of deciding on courses of action and then assessing how people will adjust, think of how it will affect people first. A friend of mine once told me that the solution to a problem should never be that one person loses at the expense of another. The solution should always have something for everyone to look forward to. Then they can take the negative better because there is some positive. This is difficult but not impossible. And if you believe you are a great leader, you will find a way to do this. These actions and qualities put people at ease because they can trust that you will behave in an honorable manner at all times. They will see that you have their best interests in mind, and they will follow you, and they will crave your counsel. Get Published: By the way, communication is essential for leaders. If you have some great ideas, check out the call for chapters for a new book, Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue and Understanding Human Communication in the Digital Age. Submit a chapter, or get more information, here: Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue.

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Right Fit Leading: Leadership Ingredients Defined

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Leadership is analysis without bias, momentum without fatigue, and action without discouragement. Analysis without Bias: Skill is important because leaders have to know what they are doing. They analyze the way ahead and determine what is necessary. You can determine what is necessary by yourself or with the team, but you have to make the determination. When you analyze the situation or the task at hand, you have to begin without caring what the final answer will be, and you have to keep an open mind throughout the analysis. If you do this without preconceived notions, especially with a group, you can find new ideas and different viewpoints that will be beneficial. Momentum without Fatigue: Once you decide which way to go, get going. Attack the solution with conviction and create that momentum that will propel you and the team to the project’s successful conclusion. There will be challenges and disappointments along the way, but great leaders don’t get tired. They keep pushing toward the decided course of action. This is important to the relationship with the team. Members of the team may tire, but they can feed off the leader’s energy. If the leader truly becomes tired, it is time for a team champion to take the lead temporarily. This will signal that the leader’s trust in the team that has been assembled. But the leader can’t stay disconnected for long, because there is still much to do. Action without Discouragement: Once the leader has a decision on a course of action, it’s time to move out. Always take action to implement the decisions that have been made based on the analysis of the goal and its needs. There will be bumps in the road, but effective leaders don’t get discouraged. They commit to the decided course of action and move in that direction. They show the team that all of the prior work was necessary and that the results are accurate. If there is a problem, a course correction is always the preferred way to proceed instead of starting from scratch. If the leader finds it necessary to start from scratch, it is important to not only explain it to the team, but to fully go back and find out where the analysis may have gone wrong. Get Published: By the way, communication is essential for leaders. If you have some great ideas, check out the call for chapters for a new book, Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue and Understanding Human Communication in the Digital Age. Submit a chapter, or get more information, here: Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue.

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