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by Brent Filson
Contents
Step One: Clarify the Action You Want Step Two: Link Motivation to Action Step Three: Plan Smarter For Results Step Four: Build Your Action Team Step Five: Create a Climate for Success Step Six: Ramp up Results Step Seven: Cultivate Continual Results 1 3 5 7 9 11 13
Brent Filsons leadership methodologies recast the way you think about things; and on a deep and powerful and gentle way, they change the way you do your job. Laura Arling, General Director of New Business, John Hancock
I have applied his tools and techniques in multiple companies and on multiple continents and found universal results. In my latest assignment, I applied his principles to help improve operating margin by over 30 margin points. Paul Conroy, Business General Manager Honeywell Europe.
7 Steps to Leadership Mastery 2 Pay attention to the process. Avoid the conventional, linear approach to action and results. Transform the sequences of actions into action processes that can be used in a variety of settings. When everyone on your team and your company is in alignment with your goals and has a clear understanding of the actions necessary, youll find people pulling together to get you to the finish line faster. Learn more about leadership techniques that help you articulate your vision to your team in a way that captures their attention and focuses their energies for results. "Brent Filson is one of the most talented communicators in the world. If you want to learn to motivate two, two hundred or two thousand people to take action for results, his lectures and seminars are a must!" Joseph Mancuso, CEO of the Center for Entrepreneurial Management.
7 Steps to Leadership Mastery 4 income, youll find that youll get what you want too: commitment, responsibility and performance. Learn more about how to lead your team onto success while creating mutually supportive and beneficial business relationships. "Brent Filson's Three-Trigger Motivational Process makes the Leadership Talk all the more concrete. I keep and refer to the wallet card frequently to keep me on course. His two-day intensive is a winner!" Mark Goldman, Office of Career Development and Employee Work Life, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
7 Steps to Leadership Mastery 6 To maintain the momentum of your meetings, be sure to conclude them with highly defined Next Steps, i.e., when the actions will happen, how the actions are monitored and evaluated. Want your meetings to yield fast, continual results? Discover proven action triggers in The Leadership Talk. I've been using Brent Filson's methodologies for more than seven years. And they get results! They not only get results on a tactical level but a strategic level too. Richard Brown, President and Global General Manager, Fortune 100 Company.
7 Steps to Leadership Mastery 8 Want more on how to develop a successful action team at your organization? Learn how to achieve critical confluenceuniting your needs with those you lead in the Critical Confluence. Brent Filson's leadership methodologies continue to be foremost in helping me get far more results at our power generating organizationand get those results in the best possible ways, by establishing an environment by which people at all levels are continually motivated to do their best. Ashton Harrilal, Supervisor, Powergen, Trinidad, West Indies.
7 Steps to Leadership Mastery 10 attention to what they do and how they do it. Are they doing it on time? If not, why not? Are they eager to report their results to you? These observations will give you an indication of their motivation or frustrations so you can intervene and correct their course or applaud their efforts. Learn more about how to create the process of success and Shared Dreams, one of the most valuable leadership tools youve never heard of. I have applied his tools and techniques in multiple companies and on multiple continents and found universal results. In my latest assignment I applied his principles to help improve operating margin by over 30 margin points. Paul Conroy, Business General ManagerHoneywell Europe
7 Steps to Leadership Mastery 12 You may not like the answer; but often their answer, no matter what it is, is better in terms of advancing results than your declaration. Also, their answering the question may prompt them to think they have come up with a good idea. People are more enamored of their own great ideas than they are of yours. Learn Proven Action Triggers solicited from leaders in the trenches, whose careers depend on their ability to motivate people day after day, week after week, for results. Brent Filson knows how to help others get results! His programs are proven in a variety of settings including industry, government, non-profit and the military proving that the way he practices and coaches leadership can work for any organization willing to invest the time and energy necessary to influence their people to produce at their highest productivity levels. Joe Javorski, Director, Worldwide Staffing, Analog Devices
7 Steps to Leadership Mastery 14 action plan will help job security. It wont be easy, but well get there together. Discover the single worst thing many leaders do that jeopardizes continual success and their promising careers. And learn about a proven leadership system that delivers a tremendous value to your organizationand to you. I have encountered myriads of leaders and leadership programsbut Brent's methodologies are really special. He not only focuses on having leaders consistently get actual results (not just talk about getting results); but his methodologies have people become engaged in profoundly human ways. Furthermore, he makes leadership and getting results a true joy!" Dr. Jeanne-Marie Col, Dept. of Economic & Social Affairs, the United Nations.
The Leadership Talk: The Greatest Leadership Tool will help you not only understand how to motivate your team to get results, but precisely how to keep them motivated, day in and day out, with powerful, practical steps for linking motivation to continual results.
"Your books are excellent! You offer all sorts of intriguing ideas, which I have not seen in any other books on the subject. Bravo!" Richard Jacobs, Vice President of Executive Communications, The Prudential Insurance Company of America.
7 Steps to Leadership Mastery 17 In this essential leadership guide, youll discover: Proven action triggers for leaders who must motivate people to get results. The three indispensable questions to ask when facing every leadership challenge. One simple adjustment in your thinking that motivates people to be your cause leaders. Defining ways to transfer your motivation to the people you lead and having those people feel as strongly as you do about the challenges you face. Unique methods for establishing strong relationships that can enrich your leadership and your life for years to come. There is a hierarchy of verbal persuasion when it comes to leadership. The lowest levels are speeches and presentations, which primarily communicate information. The highest and most effective level is the Leadership Talk. The Leadership Talk achieves more than simply conveying information; it establishes a deep, human, emotional connection with the audience. Its in the realm of that connection that leaders get the best results. Brent Filson
Brent Filson's 'Three-Trigger Motivational Process' makes the Leadership Talk all the more concrete. I keep and refer to the wallet card frequently to keep me on course. Mark Goldman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center