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How to Create Loyal and Promotable Staff by Freeing Up More of Your Own Time

«There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly»- Buckminster Fuller.

Effective delegation is both a skill and an art. Having and using this ability has many significant benefits and is of the utmost importance. It is a vital component in the toolkit of any leader. And yet, time and time again I come across leaders who do not use it effectively or anywhere near enough.

I hear many ‘reasons’ (read ‘excuses’) for this:

* ‘My team already have too much on their plates. I cannot pile on any more. It wouldn’t be fair on them and they would resent it. So I do it myself.’

What evidence do you have that they would resent it?

How can you help them to empty their plates a little so that they can take on delegated work?

If you delegate the right task, at the right time, to the right person and in the right way, the more likely reality is that they will show gratitude. They will be happy at the increase in their sense of responsibility, they will feel empowered and trusted. And as they begin to act up rather than act down they will notice themselves becoming more promotable. All of this will inspire more loyalty not less.

* ‘It’s easier and quicker if I do it myself.’

This may possibly be true the first time and it may not.

It may take a little time to explain or teach a member of staff how to complete a particular task the first time, but once they’ve got it and can finish it unaided this can only save time for you.

And is this ‘reason’ completely accurate in the first place? Or are you just using this as an excuse because there is some other reason you don’t want to give the task to someone else?

Ask yourself ‘What is honestly stopping me from delegating this task?’

* ‘If I’m truly honest I just think I’ll do a better job of it than any of my team. So it’s best if I get on and do it.’

Well done for being this honest with yourself. It’s a tough one to own up to! But what evidence do you have to support that statement? How do you know for sure unless you give them a try? How sure are you that you’re not just finding another excuse to hold onto something that you now need to be letting go of?

* ‘I know it’s not my role to do that any more, but I really enjoyed that part of my job before I was promoted and I want to carry on getting involved to that extent.’

Mmm. As you continue to climb your career ladder it is imperitive for both you and your staff that you act at the level you have reached plus spend time acting up to the next level. If you act at levels below your position you use up time unnecessarily (which can result in severe effects on your work/life balance, plus stress caused by impending deadlines and overwork). Importantly it also inhibits the progress of your staff’s climb of their own career ladders.

So how do you delegate effectively?

Well that is too lengthy a discussion to go into here, but if I have raised your awareness and you have accepted that delegation, properly done, actually leads to more loyal and happier staff who have a willingness to go that extra mile; and you have also realised that you need to be delegating more effectively and more often, then that is a very good start!

It’s Time to See Light in the Right Light

New Delhi, February 22, 2008: Jaquar, the name with a brand extends its market presence and product offerings across Decorative Lightings – from entry-level to premium lights. And now Jaquar wants to change the way you look at lights with its Concept Lighting.

In the 4-days exhibition starting today at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, Jaquar is all set to introduce their new brands of world lighting. All in a plan to make wonders in lighting technology, Jaquar Lighting Division has associated with three world-leading lighting brands namely: Strass, Crystals from Swarovski (Austria), Artemide (Italy), and Holtkotter (Germany). In the exhibition, Jaquar is presenting with its ultra-modern designs and amazing aesthetic virtues. Mr. Rajesh Mehra, Director – Marketing, Jaquar & Co. Ltd. has asserted that the company will pay equal attention to this lighting division as was in bath fitting. He said, “As we have been a leader in bath fitting accessories so we will also be a leader in lighting industry.”

According to Mr. Alessandro Paolini, Director, Artemide, the world renowned Light can be gentle, dreamlike, bare, living, misty, clear, spring-like, straight, sensual, calm, limited or soft. Artemide group is one of the world leaders in the sector of high end residential and professional illumination. The group has a structure of different production plants that guarantees the highest quality level.

While, STRASS® has a range of lighting which can scintillate beyond doubt. The brand has a unique outcome of superb design, sturdy frames, perfect pinnings and absolutely the finest crystals. These world-renowned

crystals from Swarovski are a captivating expression of ethereal beauty. Only STRASS® crystals come in as many as eight brilliant colours and in a wide range of sizes and shapes. Perfect in their clarity and radiance, STRASS® crystals catch even the finest ray of light, bringing the magic of brilliant colours into each room.

Apart from these two brands with which Jaquar has partnered, Holtkotter is a renowned and internationally acclaimed lighting products company that has been manufacturing chandeliers and lamps in Germany for more than 45 years. The brand designs its own fixtures and manufacturing from the raw metal to the finished product, resulting in chandeliers and lamps of lasting quality.

Importance Team Building Training Companies

Team building is a complex matter that needs to address human psychology to build functional corporate sales teams or management teams to bring in more success to the companies. One important factor that can affect team building is the communication between team members and between superiors and subordinates. You may look for team building training companies that can address the underlying issues of performance by a corporate team. A team building training company professional can work with the HR department of the company and can sort out the issues needed to be solved. Lack of technical knowledge can be solved by proper HR training.

Companies of all sizes today are aware of the importance of team building. But the increased awareness has also created an overuse of the terms team building and corporate team building companies. A team is usually a group of persons working towards a single goal — in a corporate environment it can be more sales, development of new technology, or maintaining a good relation with customers. There can be different teams in the same organization. Efficient team leaders can motivate team members to fast forward to results or goals. If you have a team of 10 or 500 members, you still need to build a good team out of the crowd. Team building training companies design and develop variety of team building games and team building activities that systematically induce various elements of team work like better interpersonal communication, setting aside egos, reliability, trust and willingness to work towards common goals.

Team building activities and team building games are facilitated under professional facilitators who have the knowledge about human psychology and the intricacies of team building. Professional teams building training companies have such facilitators who know how to develop team-building concepts to ensure better teamwork and participation from team members.

While you are looking for such a professional team building training company that gets the work done while having fun, you can contact The Team Builders Pro. TheTeamBuildersPro.com is a team building training company that gives team building training to employees. Before start the team building activities or team building events, the prevailing issues are sorted out with the HR managers. This will help to design apt team building training activities suited for the specific team.

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Leadership Is A Daily Conversation

My company is going through amazing changes as we grow, evolve our product mix and enhance service delivery. Although our team knew the changes would happen that doesn’t make the changes any less traumatic because you still have to endure the actual changes. Helping people navigate these changes requires vision, constant course corrections and a steely focus on the objective that made you decide to make the changes in the first place. In short, it requires leadership.

How often does your team require your leadership? In every conversation! Being a leader is more than just deciding a direction to go in, which doesn’t always fall solely on the shoulders of the figure-head leader. Leadership means showing belief, confidence and faith in the decision you’ve just made, especially the big ones. After you ask your team to follow your lead, it will help you be a better leader if you have the expectation that every person on your team, including yourself, will question the changes as they are being made.

“Why are we doing this?” “Where is this all leading to?” “Will this really work?”. These are all questions you will hear in varying forms and in some cases multiple times from the same person. Your job is to remind them of where you’re going, why you’re going there and to demonstrate unwavering confidence that the change will work. The way you answer questions, deal with someone else’s insecurity towards the objective and handle outright rejection of the change is the true measurement of your leadership ability. But all of this comes down to the conversation you’re having and how you have it.

The first step to consistent leadership communication is to lead yourself. Recognize that you too are going through the changes and may be having the same reactions everyone else is – you are human after all. In recognizing your own reactions you can remind yourself of why you’re feeling the stress and the benefits you will soon realize. Once you’ve lead yourself you will have a better gauge as to how you can help others address their own reactions.

The second step to consistent leadership communication is to keep your focus on your goal and not allow yourself to become too distracted by the changes everyone else is also enduring. Naturally your team will not be looking forward – they’ll look back to where they were last comfortable and seemingly everywhere else except where you’re taking them. Now remind them of why you chose to make the changes and the benefits they and everyone will realize as a result. Your communication during these moments should be just as crystalline and targeted on the goal as it was when you took those first steps towards the new goal.

The difference between success and failure is the slight difference between practicing good habits and bad habits. If your conversations lack confidence and faith then your team will doubt their own abilities to reach the goal. Choose to lead in your daily conversations and your team will leverage your strength, confidence and faith to carry themselves forward to success.

Thanks for reading,

Richard Walker

(CEO/President of Quikforms)

India Web Development

Over the past 50 or 60 years the IT age has hit India. India produces highly skilled IT workers. Many of these IT specialists immigrated to U.S.A. in the 60’s. The U.S.A. was leading the field in technology at that time, helped in no small measure, by the 10,000 Indians who had made their home there. Silicon Valley in California was born.

During the 90’s satellite links improved so much that the work done in India could be transmitted abroad directly. It was as though you had your own specialist in the next office. There was another surge of immigration to U.S.A. and by 2000 approximately 1.7 million Indians live there.

This helped the revolution in IT that we have seen across the world. The U.S. companies had the infrastructure and together with the skills of the Indian population IT has moved forward in leaps and bounds.

Today, the skills and technological advances in India have meant that there is a source of world beaters in IT in India. Indeed, the new Silicon Valley is in Bangalore. India Web Development is a world leader.

Outsourcing has become the norm when it comes to web development and IT work. It is far better to employ a free lance web developer than to employ one yourself. Businesses from all around the world see India as a wonderful resource in IT. You can employ a developer safe in the knowledge that he or she has good grounding in IT and that they keep up to date with all the latest technology. Not only that, but the work ethic that you enjoy when you employ Indian developers is second to none. They work hard and see a project through. The skills base is phenomenal and you can always find someone who has the solution to your IT problem.

So, if you have an IT problem or you want to build a website or create a new programme, you need look no further than India.