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doug smith training develops high performance leadership with clarity, courage, creativity, and compassion. It's tough on the front end, dealing with your team, your customers, and your bosses. Get the leadership training you need to navigate the choppy seas of supervising. "Supervising for Success" is a two-day workshop that helps you to develop: The keys to leadership success Setting and achieving your supervisory goals Communicating for results Building your team Motivating yourself and others Time Management Coaching for performance Leading productive meetings Solving problems Leading ethically and effectively Supervising multiple generations in the workplace Prioritizing and handling multiple projects and goals Contact me today about bringing "Supervising for Success" to your location.  doug@dougsmithtraining.com

Better!

Even a reluctant leader can become a better leader. -- Doug Smith

Stay Open to Ideas

Why would any leader try to suppress a good idea? It's because they don't think it IS a good idea, isn't it? Or maybe it's because they need all of the ideas to be THEIR ideas. Or maybe they are not thinking it thru. There is no point to it. Holding a good idea down will likely strengthen its wings inviting it to fly somewhere else. Then, freed, it can't help you. Open up to those wild ideas. Let your creative side prosper and teach your other sides to listen. Suppressing a good idea is only temporary control. Let go. -- Doug Smith

Some Thoughts On Goals

It's real once you set a goal for it.               _/_/_/_/_/_/   The goals that matter shatter barriers.               _/_/_/_/_/_/   If you let someone else tell you what your goals are, don't complain if they don't please you.               _/_/_/_/_/_/   Achieving your goals is one of your top priorities.               _/_/_/_/_/_/   It's not just a wish if you're working on it -- it's a goal to achieve.               _/_/_/_/_/_/   Like it or not you may be remembered as a leader by how successful you were at achieving your goals.               _/_/_/_/_/_/   We achieve our goals in order to achieve our mission.               _/_/_/_/_/_/   When our goals energize us it's easier to energize others. -- Doug Smith What goal are you working on today?

Work On Yourself

"Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them." -- Jim Rohn Are you working on yourself today?  How about this week? There are no days available to skip working on yourself. Learning is a lifetime and daily assignment. What have you learned today?  That's my favorite question and I ask it several times a day because I do expect to learn MORE than one thing. There's so much to learn. So many goals to realize. It's time to get started, or if you're already in motion (good for you!) to keep going. Relentlessly. Set big, noble, challenging goals. And then? Then get to work! -- Doug Smith

Your Goals Are Yours

If you let someone else tell you what your goals are, don't complain if they don't please you. -- Doug Smith

The Power of Great Goals

How much thought do you give to your goals? Goals change. We change our goals, and then our goals change us. Recognizing the power behind our goals is important in using that power. Pick ambitious goals. Write noble goals. Work on goals that matter to you. A great goal gives primary focus to all that you do. Make it great. -- Doug Smith

Behind the Goal

A life changing goal requires a habit changing plan. -- Doug Smith Successful Supervisors Achieve Their Goals If you'd like to increase and improve your possibilities as a supervisor I can help you with that. It's what I do. If you and others at your organization would benefit from a two-day workshop on high performance leadership, please contact me about " Supervising for Success ." It's over twenty years of leadership experience, tools, methods, and techniques distilled into my "greatest hits." I love delivering this program and I enjoy watching supervisors realize that they CAN get stuff done without ticking people off. Let me show you how. Contact me here: doug@dougsmithtraining.com

High Performance Leaders Say What They Want

How clear are your expectations? Does your team know exactly what you want for results? Communicating for results means letting the results we want made well known. High performance leaders say what they want. How else will you ever get it? -- Doug Smith

Stay Vital

Do you enjoy that feeling of being at the top of your game? I do. There's nothing quite like setting a noble and ambitious goal, working hard on the action plan, and then achieving it. We are most vital in those moments of hard work leading to success. Goals set the target, the plan sets the pace, and the work gets it done. We are most vital when we are achieving our goals. Why not get started? -- Doug Smith Successful Supervisors Achieve Their Goals If you'd like to increase and improve your possibilities as a supervisor I can help you with that. It's what I do. If you and others at your organization would benefit from a two-day workshop on high performance leadership, please do contact me about " Supervising for Success ." It's over twenty years of leadership experience, tools, methods, and techniques distilled into my "greatest hits." I love delivering this program and I enjoy watching supervisors realize that they CAN get stuff don