Leadership Training Quotes

Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts.

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.

Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

Success will teach you who your real friends are.

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

When you see recurring problems, the methods you’ve used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.

Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.

Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you.

Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs — their real jobs.

Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

Leaders move among the various stages each day. But effective leaders move among the right stages at the right times.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.

You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.

Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.

Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.

As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.

The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.

Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.

Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

You are always a gardener. What grow - and how it grows - is up to you.

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.

In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose.

How to prepare someone for leadership:I do it.I do it and you watch.You do it and I watch.You do it.You do it and someone else watches.

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.

Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?

Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.

Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.

To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

You are special individual. Never envy others.You never know what they go through.Seek and be inspired by the works of others. Learn their secrets for success.

You can’t effectively move up to the next stage of leadership yourself until your current stage leadership skills are solid and are being developed in your team members so they can take over as you move on.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.