Michael Nichols | Leadership Made Simple
Leadership Made Simple
If you want to improve your leadership and your relationships with your team, this post is for you!
It’s Cyber Monday in the United States and many online retailers are offering special discounts on their products. So I want to extend a very special offer to you for my popular One-on-One Meeting Guide and Template.
We’ve received some great feedback on the NEW One-on-One Meeting Template since we released it.
If you missed the announcement, you can read it here – One-On-One Meetings that Work – NEW Template!
WOW! Super helpful! Great guidance and practical strategies. As someone who participates in a weekly meeting with my supervisor, this will be a powerful tool to help me guide the meeting better from my side of the desk. Chad Miller, Finance Manager
I like the structure that the template provides – meet at a regular time and 30 minutes maximum. This requires both parties to prepare for the meeting and keeps it from being a time waster. I love the challenge to prepare to listen and follow-up after them meeting. Todd Linder, Executive Director
The perfect study guide before you have a meeting with your boss. You’ll be prepared for anything! Lee Tomlin, Associate Director, BBFI
I really like the meeting agenda for team members that you provide as a part of the guide and template. And love the idea of more frequent one-on-one meetings, especially for the purpose of assessing work flow. TJ Ward, Lead Pastor
When’s the last time you were faced with major decisions? College. New car. Marriage. Church. New home. New job.
In a world of abundant opportunities, how did you know FOR SURE you were making the right decision?
In this post, I’ll provide a tool that will help you sleep more soundly both while you’re contemplating a major decision and after you’ve decided.
The most influential people in the world? Who are they?
More than 20 years ago, I heard a college professor say over and over throughout on of my courses – “Nothing is real until its personal.” What he was saying was, unless something has personal significance or touches your life in a tangible way, it won’t mean to you what it means to others.
Similarly, those people and events that hold personal significance to you may not be valued by others.
One’s influence is often directly related to their level of impact in your life or work.
Hundreds of people have helped me along the way. So it’s difficult to limit a list of people who have profoundly influenced my life.
So at the risk of overlooking some, here are the 5 most influential people in my world:
For much of my life, rules annoyed me. Regulation and policies were “inconvenient” and slowed progress. My perspective was, “Rules were made to be broken”. Some may refer to my viewpoint as visionary or creative. However, many other perceived my actions as it maverick, disrespectful, even rebellious. Whatever you call it, I have since learned to appreciate and place high value on structure (some might say that I appreciate it a little too much now).
Growing leaders and organizations realize that communication and structure are both critical components of teamwork. Each of the four organizations I worked with over the past 20 years experienced significant growth by addressing one or both of these areas. Some needed to give more attention to communication while others needed to address deficiencies in structure.
