Many of us have been frightened by what’s been happening in our economy recently. Enlightened Leadership teaches (in our leadership development classes) a concept that we call Personal DNA - a way of looking at the little decisions we make every day. Often these decisions are unconsciously made and limit us.

Ed Oakley discusses how this concept can become a powerful tool for us - personally and in our leadership roles. He also ties it to the factors surrounding the economic challenges we face and the options we have.

Watch it and provide feedback below. It is approximately 13 minutes long.

Please share your comments below.

May you take advantage of this situation to position yourself significantly better than you already are!

Our best regards,

The Enlightened Leadership Team

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I was talking today with a former Director of Executive Development for a major company - one of the best companies to work for in the U.S. He reminded me of how his organization was able to calculate ROI for the Enlightened Leadership Solutions work we had done for him.

There is a friendly little challenge for you at the end of the 8 minute video.

Listen to it now and provide your comments!

What are your thoughts about the video, the ROI calculation and the challenge? Comment now, or send us an email.

Best regards,

Ed Oakley & the Enlightened Leadership Team

ps: Click on this link Making Managers into Leaders Institute for detailed information.

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Over the weekend, as I was thinking of special people I wanted as guest speakers for our Making Managers into Leaders Institute, I began to think of our own current and former facilitators, coaches and consultants. I had never realized it before, but I was able to quickly write down six of their names who have gone on to become authors in their own right. And there might be more.

That is so cool! It must be a little like the feeling of being a grandparent (I can only speculate at this point. :-)). But it is tremendously gratifying for me to realize that AT LEAST SIX OF OUR FACILITATORS HAVE NOW WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED THEIR OWN SUBSTANTIVE BOOKS! I can’t wait for them to start contributing value to our library of management/ leadership development content - helping you solve your management challenges!

One of those special talents is Stephen McGhee, who has recently written an excellent book, “Learning to Believe the Unbelievable: Living Life as a Miracle Leader.” We will ask Stephen do a video soon for Institute members about some of his profound insights about leadership and management, and also a longer webinar for additional depth.

Meanwhile, here is Stephen reporting what happened as a result of one of his team sessions several years ago:

Turn up your speakers and click here to hear the two minute audio.

This is one of 101 audio learning snippets already in the Making Managers into Leaders Institute. We’ll be sharing more about the Institute this week.

What are your questions or comments? We are eager to know what they are.

Ed Oakley and the Enlightened Leadership Team.

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Wow, wait to you see who we’re being compared to. We’re honored and grateful!

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Hi all,

We continue to be grateful for all your feedback via email and comments. While it’s tough to respond to them directly, you can bet we’re reading them all and LISTENING!

This video in our “Experiment in Leadership Development” series addresses how we see management and leadership and their importance to each other. It might be familar to Enlightened Leadership clients, but the example story might be new to you.

The format of this one is VERY DIFFERENT. Please give us your perspectives on it!

So, please give us your comments, and if you haven’t already, fill out the survey. All of this will make sure our future products/services better fit your needs.And yes, we are working hard on something to announce. We’re not trying to hide that, but frankly your input has us scampering back to make changes and improvements. We’ve delayed the project for quite a while because of your input. And we’re not complaining, because we want the final “product” to make a huge difference for you!I’ve personally never known very much about marketing, but the feedback you’re giving us beats any marketing survey I’ve personally ever seen. It’s like you’re really engaged in determining what we release. What a concept!Keep talking to us about your management skills development needs, and we’ll keep listening.

Appreciatively,

Ed Oakley & the Enlightened Leadership Solutions Team

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We’ll have more of the content videos, and now Ed Oakley wants to share a bit of his personal story and some perspectives received from your comments so far. Please watch the video and provide your feedback and/or answer the survey.

Thanks for watching. Please give feedback below or respond to the survey.
We’ll communicate soon with another content-rich video,the Enlightened Leadership Team

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This is the third in the series of videos in our Leadership Development Experiment. This one is focused on accomplishing Performance Evaluations, Assessments, Appraisals or Reviews easily and effectively. It focuses on bringing out the best in the employee, while making it easy for you to do.

Our perspective is that if Performance Appraisals are easy AND effective, you’ll do them more often - resulting in even more performance improvement.

Check it out!

Share your thoughts and value below! Also, complete our survey and let us know of other topics you would like to see on video.
Best regards,
The Enlightened Leadership Team

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Watch the video to learn about our experiment, then take part!

Now, register your name, email and postal code in the form to
the right so you’ll be sure to get these free learning videos.
From the Enlightened Leadership Team. Enjoy the value!

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I had an awesome experience of Servant Leadership
recently.

It all started when my daughter, Kat, wanted to go
visit Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.

Watch the video!

May you enjoy the benefits of being a servant leader! My warmest regards,Ed Oakley Enlightened Leadership Solutions

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I had a delightful discussion recently with the Director of a substantial medical center. She and her team had been “beaten up” by corporate when they received an admittedly abysmal 18% effectiveness rating in one of the 150 areas for which they are measured. Not surprisingly, it created a great deal of frustration on the team, and opened up quite a change management opportunity for the Director.

Being a staunch believer in the essence of Enlightened Leadership and Leadership Made Simple, she knew the solution to the problem lied within the creativity of the people involved. She also knew that creativity would never surface if they stayed in their frustrated state.

To get past that frustration, she encouraged them to shift their focus to what was working - not only in that specific area, but in other areas that might trigger insights for how to do this one differently.

Using that Forward Focus(TM) approach, the team came up with several ideas they could immediately implement to improve the situation. As they got positive results from those early actions, they were energized to find more creative ideas - which, of course, they had no problem generating!

They periodically got back together to build on their successes to continually improve that particular metric. It was an easy process - celebrating and analyzing successes and taking the resulting creative energy to come up with more improvement ideas.

By the time the August numbers came out, they had improved the metric from 18% to 90% effectiveness in just 4 months. What an amazing performance improvement. This is what leading for results - the easy way - looks like!

Our acknowledgment and congratulations to the team!

In what ways have you experienced leading for results the easy way? We would love to hear - your solutions and your challenges.

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