Welcome to 

The Leadership Fit® Newsletter

Welcome to this inaugural issue of The Leadership Fit® newsletter.  We are glad to have you as part of our community of readers.  

We commit to bringing you valuable knowledge and information you can put to work immediately in your own organization, along with other resources that will support your ongoing contributions as a leader in the world.  

When it comes to leadership, the team at David Chinsky & Associates believes in a holistic and balanced approach to developing and sustaining long-term impact.  

Our experienced and credentialed coaches, trainers and facilitators work with leaders seeking the clarity, confidence, effectiveness and vitality necessary for achieving their highest levels of professional effectiveness and leadership fitness™.  

In our monthly newsletter, we will strive to stimulate, provoke and encourage you to take you own leadership to the next level.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!     

Why Leaders Must Be Clear

More than anything else, employees seek clarity from their leaders.  Leaders lacking clarity, and leaders that do not take the time to provide clear direction to their teams, create an environment where staff are forced to choose among multiple priorities.  This often results in employees concluding "we don't know where we are going" or "I'm not sure what I am supposed to be working on". 

Operating from a place of confusion or contradiction is obviously not a productive platform from which to lead.  It is, at best, very distracting for employees who are looking for where to focus their often scarce resources of time and energy.  At its worst, it can create a crisis of credibility for the leader. 

When employees look to leadership for direction, and it is not there, team members begin to wonder whether their senior management (or anyone for that matter) is steering the ship. 

To learn more about bringing clarity to your team, and for a list of questions leaders must be prepared to ask and answer regarding their organization's core purpose and priorities, we invite you to download our free special report called The Four Dynamic Qualities of Leadership Fitness™.   

From Last Resort to

Standard Leadership Fare 

Leadership development programs continue to evolve from an historical reliance on classroom-type learning and job rotations to more of an emphasis on 360-degree feedback, action learning and individual or team coaching. 

Once used only as a last resort to salvage troubled staffers, coaching now is part of the standard leadership development regimen for many executives and other talented "high potentials."  As reported on CNN, leading companies from around the world are now providing their best employees with what "star athletes have long had: a trusted advisor to help (them) reach their goals."

Coaching programs are often employed to help a team or an individual achieve greater clarity of vision or purpose, and to increase self awareness (an important component of emotional intelligence). 

Coaching solutions are increasingly becoming the strategy of choice for HR executives working to prevent what the Conference Board has called the four most important derailers facing business leaders today:

• hesitancy to take necessary business risks,
• personal arrogance and insensitivity,
• controlling leadership style, and
• reluctance to tackle difficult people issues.

In Executive Coaching, learn what questions to ask when selecting a coach.

The Institute for Leadership Fitness™

For several years, David Chinsky & Associates has provided clients access to its popular Leadership Effectiveness Series.  These compelling half-day seminars were designed for leaders seeking to create more powerful environments for managing employee engagement, organizational change and improved business results.  

Based upon the success of our previous Series, we are proud to announce the founding of our newest leadership development program: The Institute for Leadership Fitness™.  The Institute will enroll participants on an annual basis, and will offer four one-day leadership sessions, one every 90 days.  Each quarterly session will provide leaders with valuable insights and training on how to increase their level of professional effectiveness and leadership fitness.  

Look for programs starting this Fall in the following cities: Ann Arbor, MI; Detroit, MI; Phoenix, AZ; and Grand Rapids. MI.   

One Last Thing

"I sincerely wish that you will have the experience of thinking up a new idea, organizing it, and following it through to completion, and then having it be magnificently successful. I also hope you'll go through the same process and have something totally 'bomb out.'

The Leadership

Collection™

Each month, we will review a book from The Leadership Collection™ 

selected to both engage and challenge leaders as they seek to make a difference in their organizations. 

Our pick this month is The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly.  In this book, leaders discover the important role they play in helping their employees, at all levels of the organization, achieve their dreams. 

Whether it is buying a first home, going on a special vacation or improving a relationship that has gone sour, leaders learn how attending to the dreams of their people can lead to dramatic results for the organization as a whole.  

Patrick Lencioni, writing in the Foreword to the book, observes that Matthew Kelly's breakthrough idea is "one of those rare discoveries that is as beneficial for employees as it is for a company's bottom line". 

Written as a leadership fable, Kelly's message is both authentic and inspiring.  At the end of the book, a simple and straightforward four-step process is outlined for leaders interested in rolling out a Dream Manager program of their own.  To purchase this book, simply click on its picture.    

Next month, we will review:

Why Smart Executives Fail And What You Can Learn From Their Mistakes by Sydney Finkelstein.  

For our current reading list, please click here.  

Now in our seventh year of providing professional, expert and customized coaching, training and facilitation services, David Chinsky & Associates is pleased to announce the expansion of our Associate network.  

We invite you to Meet Our Team of experienced and credentialed professionals.  We look forward to having the opportunity to support your personal and professional goals.   

Imagine What Your

Life Would Be Like

 if You Could: 

• Get aligned with your values, purpose and strengths.
• Influence colleagues both within and outside your organization.
• Be more strategic and motivate your team to do great work.
• Contribute to your profession in a way that brands you as a national thought leader.
• Become more masterful at creating relationships.
• Expand your capacity to create breakthrough results.

Take the first step to accomplishing more of what you want from your life and your career by contacting the professionals at David Chinsky & Associates.

Get started today.

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