Leadership According to Dale Carnegie

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Last week I attended the leadership course for managers held by Pilar Chaparro at the corporate training company Dale Carnegie. The training session (3 days in the classroom) proposed interesting content well illustrated by Pilar who managed to involve the participants (about 15 managers from Northern Italy) also with moments of fun interaction (in the image below an example while each participant writes on the back of the others the best characteristic of the person). Here is the squeeze of the most interesting concepts
that I want to share with my blog readers:

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SMART approach to personal goals
The SMART model is a method of defining goals that requires that each personal or business goal be specific, measurable, ambitious, realistic and with a defined timeframe.
After an operational meeting, it is important to always define a summary of what was decided with a relative list of "SMART goals" with times, methods, responsible parties and measurement indicators. It seems trivial but I assure you that in my work experience, about a third of companies do it.

EISENHOWER-STYLE TIME MANAGEMENT
US President Eisenhower began his day by hong kong telegram phone number list the activities to be done and allocating them in an Urgent/Important matrix.

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In today’s world where digital distractions and multitasking reign supreme, it is essential for the resource manager to start the day by setting his and his team’s priorities (possibly sharing them so that everyone is aligned) and defining the % of time to allocate.
Be very careful of “Time Thieves” or non-Important and non-urgent digital INTERRUPTIONS (Whatsapp and Facebook) that try to enter your day and eat up your precious time and energy. I am sure that if Eisenhower were still alive he would use these digital temptations no more than 30 minutes a day (and never while doing something urgent or important).

“IF YOU DON’T MANAGE FACEBOOK AND WHATSAPP INTERRUPTIONS, THEY WILL MANAGE YOU…”



Making Music Without Making a Sound

Without directly producing any sound but only guiding others, showing them the way, making them better and more powerful, the orchestra conductor produces high-level music thanks to his team of musicians.


The concept of the orchestra conductor who creates music without making a sound (see video below by Benjamin Zander) is the metaphor of the modern and current leader who speaks, offers vision, creates relationships, involves people. Each person is motivated by different factors based on his personality (here is a personality test if you have 5 minutes to do it)
It is not easy at all to be a good orchestra conductor (there are few Mutis in the world), but with Dale Carnegie's course the chances of success increase.