Are You an Influential Leader? It’s Quite Possible!

Good leaders are hard to find. It’s a secret ingredient for business and career growth because these skills can help you navigate the significant changes that are occurring in the economy today. Why does it matter? Because you will be better able to grow a highly engaged team for your mutual success. It's the key reason why the Business Builder Retreat (BBR), this November in Puerto Vallarta, is such an important learning opportunity. You’ll be treated to the wisdoms and experience of Knowledge Bureau author of the course Business Leadership, Culture, and Continuity, Joanne Sigurdson who will be joined by 7 other compelling speakers and holistic health practitioners to enlighten you as you build your strategic leadership skills.

In her session at BBR , Joanne will challenge you to dig deeper and find that true leadership potential. It’s a rewarding and challenging endeavour, but it’s certainly not simple.

Leadership requires commitment; resourcefulness; a relentless passion for self-improvement; together with the ability to listen, learn and earn the trust of the team and others who rely on it – consistently and continuously.

As most seasoned managers know, leadership is actually not about you. It’s about the people you lead and whether they choose to follow you, or simply to do what you tell them to do. These are two entirely different matters, and they will have different outcomes. Your success as a leader depends on the choice the people you lead make .

A large part of that choice is driven by whether you are seen as authentic; that is, confident in your vision and your skills and comfortable in your own skin. For most leaders who are really effective with their teams, the courage to be authentic is the key to forging accountable results not just once, but on an ongoing basis, because it drives both strategy and culture. . .and you need both to get the results required.

Leadership requires a focused, accountable effort to persuade and compel others to work willingly with you towards objectives and goals that may be in flux. That’s the problem in times of great change. Most people don’t like change, but you have considerable influence on your team’s ability to embrace it.

Truly inspirational leaders can motivate their teams to accomplish the impossible. Whether that’s in encouraging people to embrace new technology or subject matter expertise, change their habits or understand their new roles in the organization, it’s important for the leader to passionately – and often firmly – convey that the status quo isn’t going to cut it.

Conversely, leaders that are less committed to change can negatively affect the new outcomes his or her team is responsible for. In fact, whether your team respects or disrespects your vision will directly influence the success or failure of the goals you need to achieve.

Growing Your Business: Will your leadership skills produce a positive or negative influence? It’s a really difficult question to ask of oneself, and requires a special kind of courageous introspection. Great leaders do that, and it matters, because there are essentially two ways to get results: in the short term and in the longer term.

Ready to expand your leadership potential? The Business Builder Retreat offers an open forum led by experienced executives and health coaches who, together with Knowledge Bureau course authors and instructors, have chosen seven topics that are most meaningful to your business development, including personal leadership skills, strategic business planning, business law, marketing and technology.

This power-packed agenda has a singular purpose—how to find and rekindle your passion for your work and personal life by removing the noise and distractions. Stay tuned to future editions of KBR where we will highlight other great speakers and components of the agenda.

The BBR is also a full credit course in the MFA™-Executive Business Growth Program. For more information and to enrol, visit the program’s web page or call 1-866-953-4769.

Additional educational resources: If you’re unable to attend the Business Builder Retreat this November, don’t miss the opportunity to develop your leadership potential by studying online. You can start with the certificate course authored by Joanne, Business Leadership, Culture and Continuity or take the MFA™-Executive Business Growth program to become a designated business building specialist.

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