Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman

5 minutes to help you become a more effective leader

Topic: Planning an Off-Site

Here are three lessons I learned from working with senior leaders and planning off-sites.

1. Have a clearly defined purpose

2. Realize not everything will be accomplished

3. Plan how to continue on-going work Have you put together and off-site for your organization?

What do you find to be the most helpful if planning and making it meaningful?

5 minutes to help you become a more effective leader Topic: Onboard How do you onboard in your organization to make sure they are off to a great start? Let's look at three levels: 1. Entry level 2. Mid-level managers 3. Senior leaders What do you spend the time on when you onboard? What level of detail and for how long? Being intentional with your onboarding process can enjoy a smooth transition whether your new employee is coming from outside or being promoted within. What do you find to be the most helpful?

5 minutes to help you become a more effective leader

Topic: Community Service

What is community service to you? How can you give back and create more opportunities to serve? I explore three areas (see below) where you can make an impact in your community.

1. Volunteer your time

2. As a leader in your organization, use that influence to create policy about community service

3. Offer your professional services at reduced rates for certain populations.

Do you have a way that has worked for you or your organization? Share below.

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Topic: Who is Helping You?

As you are setting goals or resolutions and making changes having supporting relationships is foundational to helping you achieve those.

You need to ask yourself the following in terms of those relationships:

1. What do you need?

2. Who or what person could support or provide that need?

3. How frequent?

You are a leader, so this applies to you personally but you might be that person for those you are leading? Learn how supporting relationships are essential to intentional change.

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Topic: Get Your Year Off to a Great Start

Are you excited for the new year? How can you make sure you set yourself up for success?

We will walk through the following:

Resolutions- Do they work?, Do you set them?

Goals - Do you set one big one or several small ones?, Are they SMART?

One Word - Do you choose a word for your year? Let's make this year a great one!

Thanks for joining me!

5 minutes to help you become a more effective leader

5 minutes to help you become a more effective leader

Topic: Professional Development as a Trip

Let's take a look at your professional development as a trip. I want you to look at last year's development and then plan for this coming year.

1. Planning - determine your destination

2. Execution - how do you measure progress?

3. Evaluation - is it about the destination or journey?

This is the perfect time to work through making your personal development plan and get ready to implement in the new year.

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Topic: Gift Giving: Leadership Development

The giving season is upon us. What gift can you give those in your organization? In the previous video we discussed how self-awareness is at the center of leadership development. Let's take that a step further.

The current workforce wants career development to be a central component to their job. How can you offer leadership development to your employees?

1. Give them a better leader - start with yourself

2. Assess every individual on your team and work on individualized development.

3. Team development - first give them a compelling purpose, then help assess how and where they need to grow.

Walk through some suggestions and how this could look for you and your organization? How does leadership development look in your organization? Have you found being intentional with development to be beneficial?

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Topic: Gift Giving

The giving season is upon us. What gift can you give those in your organization? Think about leadership development and self-awareness. This is a gift that would help develop those you work with. There are many assessments that are available to get you started. Walk through some suggestions and how this could look for you and your organization? Are you familiar with any assessments, have you take some yourself? What have you found to be beneficial? Have you thought about this as a gift?

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Topic: Gratitude & Happy Thanksgiving

Today I take some time to thank all those have helped me and Great Transitions Strategies grow and be what it is today. I want to highlight also some of the following amazing organizations that are available to small business owners:

Commit Foundation

Freedom Makers Virtual Assistants

Project Opportunity

Take some time to determine who you need to thank and how you can express your gratitude to those in your organization and circles.