Kenneth Blanchard Quotes

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Help People Reach Their Full Potential Catch Them Doing Something Right

There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.

Goals begin behaviors, consequences maintain them.

If you don't blow your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.

A clear purpose will unite you as you move forward, values will guide your behavior, and goals will focus your energy.

Effective managers,” he thought, “manage themselves and the people they work with so that both the organization and the people profit from their presence.

We can’t always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.

The best way to teach people is by telling a story

The people who work with you as their manager will look to you as one of their sources of wisdom

The best minute I spend is the one I invest in people.

If you can´t tell me what you'd like to be happening, you don't have a problem yet. You're just complaining. A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

When people don't know what’s going on, it’s human nature for them to imagine a version that’s ten times worse than the truth!

الناس تحتاج أن ترتبط بمن يهتمون بهم، ليشعروا بأنهم مقبولون وذوو قيمة لمجرد أنهم بشر (..) أيضاً أن الناس يحتاجون إلى معين ليجدوا من يهتم بهم، عندما يجانبهم الصواب ص 91

Empowerment requires a major shift in attitude. The most crucial place that this shift must occur is in the heart of every leader.

Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.

من غير المناسب إخفاء مشاعرك السلبية نحو ضعف أداء موظف Page: 86

Everyone Is A Potential Winner. Some People Are Disguised As Losers. Don’t Let Their Appearances Fool You.

Anytime you use your influence to affect the thoughts and actions of others, you are engaging in leadership.

An effective leader must step back, look at the big picture, and make sure the important things are not being pushed out of the way by the seemingly urgent needs of the moment.

A passionate activity is one you’re doing without regard for time.

When I first came to work her i spotted a problem that needed to be solved, but I didn't know what to do. So I called the One Minute Manager. When he answered the phone, I said, Sir, I have a problem. Befor I could get another word out, he said, Good! That's what you've been hired to solve.

Empowerment means that people have the freedom to act. It also means that they are accountable for results.

Remember, the best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them, not from them.

Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports.

If you can’t tell me what you’d like to be happening,’ he said, ‘you don’t have a problem yet. You’re just complaining. A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

As a collaborative leader, you support people in their work—you remove roadblocks and help them win.

Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills.

People Who Feel Good About Themselves Produce Good Results. *

Catching people doing things right provides satisfaction and motivates good performance. But remember, give praise immediately, make it specific, and finally, encourage people to keep up the good work.

To learn from the past is good, but to live there is a waste. To plan for the future is good, but to live there is a waste. You are happiest and most productive in life when you are living in the present.

The more attention you pay to a behavior, the more it will be repeated. Accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative are the best tools for increasing productivity.

Focusing on the negative often creates situations that demoralize people. When good performance is followed by a positive response, people naturally want to continue that behavior.

Feedback is important to people. We all want to know how well we’re doing. That’s why it is essential for an effective performance review system to provide ongoing feedback.

Don’t get a big head when you win or get too down in the dumps when you lose. Keep things in perspective. Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.

What you resist, persists. Until you deal with your feelings, you will be stuck with them.

People have trouble admitting there are problems, but everyone has an area he or she would like

One of the biggest obstacles to high performance in organizations comes from unclear expectations and accountability.

Yes. However, remember—productivity is more than just the quantity of work done. It is also the quality.

great rule of thumb is to never say anything behind someone’s back that you wouldn’t say straight to the person’s face.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

whenever we become the leader and try to make God the servant, things don’t work out. Why? Because our EGO gets in the way, and we Edge God Out! If you want your life to be significant, then you have to recognize that it’s all about God, not about you. As the old Yiddish saying goes, “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.

When people become defensive, they don’t learn.

Attention is like sunshine to humans. What we give our attention to, grows. What we ignore, withers.

As you undoubtedly know, making mistakes is not the problem. It’s not learning from them that causes real problems.

As Lily Tomlin once said, “The problem with a rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

People in the community, they don't think less of themselves, they just think about themselves less.

When you judge someone, it impairs your ability to see him or her clearly, as if a filter is screening out everything about that person except what fits your assessment.

First let’s look at a model of Situational Leadership® II that shows a combination development level and leadership style.

A good life is built on strong, solid values such as integrity, love, honesty, and purposeful work.

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There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequals. Friends

One of the things great leaders do is establish, articulate, model, and enforce core values.

Do our interactions leave you feeling heard, valued, and supported? • Am I dependable? Do you trust that I’ll follow through on my commitments

Our Manager works with us to make it clear what our responsibilities are and what we are being held accountable for.

Our Manager makes sure we know what good performance looks like because he shows us. In other words, expectations are clear to both of us.

Leadership is not about power. It’s not about control; it’s about helping people live according to the vision.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel, and misrepresentation.

Empowerment Is Something Someone Gives You. Self Leadership Is What You Do To Make It Work.

It’s unfair to be hard on yourself the first time you attempt something new. It is also unfair to expect others to meet such an unrealistic expectation.

There is a lot of competition out there. If you don’t take care of your customers, somebody else is ready to take your place.

The main job of a leader is to help his or her people succeed in accomplishing their goals. And when people accomplish their goals and win, everyone wins.

It’s more important as a manager to be respected than to be popular.

Good thoughts in your head that are not communicated “mean squat.

Like water in a bucket, vision evaporates and must be constantly replenished—that is, communicated.

An effective leader will make it a priority to help his or her people produce good results in two ways: making sure people know what their goals are and doing everything possible to support, encourage, and coach them to accomplish those goals. Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

In these changing times, he thought, the most effective managers manage themselves and the people they work with so that both the people and the organization profit from their presence.

If you choose to follow Jesus, you are no longer your own. You are not living to please yourself or other people. Instead, Jesus is the only authority and only audience for every life decision you make.

Learning to let go, to put the team’s will first, is an empowering experience that leads to the most wonderful of all experiences: being a member of a high-performing, gungho, high-five team. Remember, leadership is not all about you.

2. إن الاستهانة بكلام أو آراء أو أفكار شخص ما من الممكن أن يكون لها آثار ضارة على هذا الشخص فعندما لا نستطيع أن نتذكر خطأنا معتبرين الحادثة على أنها غلطة طفيفة أو أننا كنا مشغولين جداً لدرجة أننا لم نتمكن من التفكير في تأثير تصرفاتنا على هذا الشخص فإن هذا يبدو وكأننا نتجاهل هذا الشخص ولا نعبئ به على الإطلاق. في مثل هذه الحالات علينا القيام بالتأكيد له على أننا لم نتعمد إيذائه وعلى أننا على استعداد لتصحيح هذا الموقف. علينا ألا نفترض أبداً أننا نعرف ما يدور بخلد شخص آخر.

ماذا لو كنا لا نحب ذلك الشخص الذي نشعر بحاجة إلى الاعتذار إليه؟ قد يبدو ذلك صعباً في البداية ولكن سواء كنا نحبه أم لا فذلك شيء لا يهم فنحن نعتذر لان هذا هو الشيء الصائب الذي يتوجب علينا فعله. كما يمكننا أن نسأل نفسنا في هذه الحالة هذا السؤال : ما الذي يمنعني من حب هذا الشخص ؟

Trust is extended first by loving hearts committed to serve and support one another, and trust grows with promises kept, encouragement and appreciation expressed, support and acceptance offered, repentance and apologies received, and reconciliation and restoration established.

Successful people do work hard, but they also think before they act. They are proactive, not just reactive. Most people mentally have a sign on their desk that reads, “Don’t just sit there—do something!” The best advice I ever received was to revise the sign to read, “Don’t just do something—sit there!

First Proposition: Darwinism supports the conservative view of ordered liberty as rooted in natural desires, customary traditions, and prudential judgments. In Chapter 1, I will argue that a Darwinian account of social order requires a nested hierarchy of three kinds of order—natural order, customary order, and rational order—so that custom is constrained by nature, and reason is constrained both by custom and by nature. For a society of ordered liberty to succeed, it must satisfy the desires of human nature as shaped by genetic evolution, it must be sustained by the customs of human history as shaped by cultural evolution, and it must be promoted by the judgments of human reason as shaped by prudential deliberation.

You have to learn how to diagnose the development levels of the people you work with on each of their goals. I’ll tell you more about that in a minute. Finally, you have to learn to use a variety of leadership styles to provide individuals with what they need from you.

That’s what day-to-day coaching is all about,” said Randy, “being responsive to the people you lead.

Another aspect of competence,” Kathy continued, “involves transferable skills like planning, problem solving, and time management skills.

Isn’t it interesting that all these years later we are still naming kids Matthew, James, Sarah, and Mary, and we call our dogs Nero and Caesar? I rest my case.

People Who Feel Good About Themselves Produce Good Results.

La Escritura es la santa Palabra del Dios santo, entregada por hombres santos para enseñar verdades santas y hacer a las personas santas. «Toda la Escritura es inspirada por Dios, y útil para enseñar, para redargüir, para corregir, para instruir en justicia, a fin de que el hombre de Dios sea perfecto, enteramente preparado para toda buena obra» (2 Timoteo 3.16-17).

Vivimos en un mundo que alimenta los fuegos de orgullo y temor. Mediante fruslerías, modas y presiones para adquirir más y mejores cosas y servicios, estamos constantemente tentados a creer que podemos asegurarnos un sentido de propósito y seguridad.

1. Soledad 2. Oración 3. Estudio y aplicación de la Escritura 4. Aceptar y responder al amor incondicional de Dios 5. Involucrarse en relaciones de apoyo

Es tomar tiempo para escuchar aquel silbo apacible y delicado con el cual Dios le habla a su alma y con el que le dice que usted es su amado (1 Reyes 19.12). A veces, no hacer nada es la mejor cosa que usted puede hacer por su gente y por sí mismo.

La oración es un acto esencial de la voluntad que demuestra si realmente estamos tomando en serio vivir y guiar como Jesús.

He praises me when I’m doing my job well and deserve it, even if things are not going well for him personally or here at work. I know he may be annoyed about things happening elsewhere. But he responds to where I am, not just to where he is at the time. I really appreciate that.

Goals make clear what is most important to focus on, Praisings build confidence that helps you succeed, and Re-Directs address mistakes.

Take a Minute To Look At Your Goals. Then Look At What You’re Doing And See If It Matches Your Goals.

When all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives my brothers, don’t resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends! Realise that they come to test your faith and to produce in you the quality of endurance. But let the process go on until that endurance is fully developed, and you will find you have become men of mature character with the right sort of independence. And if, in the process, any of you does not know how to meet any particular problem he has only to ask God—who gives generously to all men without making them feel foolish or guilty—and he may be quite sure that the necessary wisdom will be given him. But he must ask in sincere faith without secret doubts as to whether he really wants God’s help or not. The man who trusts God, but with inward reservations, is like a wave of the sea, carried forward by the wind one moment and driven back the next. That sort of man cannot hope to receive anything from God, and the life of a man of divided loyalty will reveal instability at every turn. (PHILLIPS)

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I am precious in God’s sight—and so are you.

La visión del futuro es lo que mantiene a la gente andando cuando se presentan tiempos difíciles.

As I said earlier, I don’t make decisions for other people,” the Manager said firmly. “Make that decision yourself.

Habits Your habits are how you renew your daily commitment as a leader to serve rather than to be served. As a leader committed to serve despite all the pressures, trials, and temptations He faced, how did Jesus replenish His energy and servant perspective? His habits! Through a life pattern of solitude and prayer, knowledge of the will of God expressed in His Holy Word, and the community He shared with a small group of intimate companions, Jesus was constantly refreshed and renewed.

Scripture is the holy Word from the holy God, delivered by holy men, to teach holy truths and to make people holy.

What we give our attention to, grows. —Ken Blanchard, Thad Lacinak, Chuck Tompkins, and Jim Ballard Whale Done!™       The more attention you pay to a behavior, the more it will be repeated. Accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative are the best tools for increasing productivity.

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The entrepreneur explained that she was having a hard time finding people who were willing to work as hard as she was. “I feel I have to do everything myself. I can’t count on anyone to take on some of the things that need to be done,” said the entrepreneur. “What you have to do,” said the One Minute Manager, “is learn to delegate.

When you ask people about the best leader they ever had, one quality is always mentioned: they are good listeners. These leaders have learned to “sort by others.” When someone says, “It’s a beautiful day,” they respond by keeping the focus on the speaker. For example, they’ll respond, “It sounds like you’re pretty happy today.” Poor listeners “sort by self.” If you express a concern you have, they will express a concern they have. Our senior consulting partner, Laurie Hawkins, is a great listener. Clients tell me, “I had the greatest dinner with Laurie recently. He’s a wonderful person.” When I ask what they know about Laurie—whether he’s married or has kids—they seldom know. They loved being with Laurie because he kept the conversation focused on them. Test the power of listening by taking time to truly listen and focus on others.

People Who Feel Good About Themselves Produce Good Results.

The big question is, does Jesus matter in your family?