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Being a leader today means your skills are more important than ever. Once you acquire new skills you become a leader who transforms yourself and others.

We’ve always had skills and leaders have used these skills to create change in many settings throughout our recorded history. But the issue now has to do with the relative importance of these skills. The magnitude of interpersonal connections being created globally is at a point never before experienced in human history.

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Leaders today must be able to create new perspectives, new thinking, and inspire people to take action in different directions—because people want to, not because they have to. This is how you can lead.

For example, look at global warming. This issue must be solved by people who are working from a consistent level of global thinking and looking at this issue from a much larger context than ever before. Einstein said: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

We know that a new generation of global leaders must step into the space of creating transformation in our world. With these new leaders comes new skills. Come aboard.

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Our changing and expanding world needs many things not least of which is a re-invigorated leadership. As a new leader you require clearly defined attributes and you must: • be far more comfortable with ambiguity and with leading through influence • be fluent in the language of humanity, in the universal connections of heart and spirit • connect through rapport rather than positional power • understand the art of inspiration, which breaks the reliance on motivation used for so long in Western culture and • understand systems and organizations, rather than organization charts and policies You can definitely become one of these leaders. Inspirational Presence by Dr. Jeff Evans clearly shows you the path to becoming a new and dynamic leader. Leaders Are Pioneers As a new leader you must start now. And that’s not all. You will: • be forced to lead from a place of global and enterprise thinking • have to rely on people with whom you do not relate culturally and who have different economic values and principles • share a common sense of direction, purpose, and global identity • experience a connectedness that transcends these differences The Times Today Have Changed In this world, the rule-based leadership in use for the last hundred years or so is becoming less and less relevant. Our planet is on the verge of massive change that demands global thinking. Give yourself the boost you need. Transform your leadership team who in turn will transform your business. Training sessions are dynamic with the Gaian Group – www.gaian.com.

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During every change effort, at some point people seem to revert to old ways.   In fact, some cases people never seem to change at all?  I can't count the times I have heard leaders say, "I can't believe that people are still doing that!  We've have already approved the new system and announced the changes!"

Understanding why changes can vanish in the midst of large organizations is a study in human and organization dynamics.  The simple part is that it happens the same way whether it is one person or a thousand.  It gets more complex when you put an organization into the mix.

One way that I like to think of this is that people are always committed.  They are either committed to a desired state, or to a current state.  Most of the people with whom I have worked have been very responsible in doing what they saw as "their job", and delivering to the best of their ability.  This is where leaders often miss.  When we describe a new desired state for the organization, we only create a glimmer of how that will work, and leave all the details to the organization to work out.  In the meantime the work world people experience does not change significantly, and the result is that there is no overall change in the work output.

Organizations are designed to create a focus on a few things.  This is how we build stability and predictability into a group of people.  However, most leaders are not organization designers, and don't understand how this is created.  More importantly, they don't know how organizations are designed to dampen forces for change.  That creates a tendency to miss the actions they need to take to change the focus of an organization.

One rule that I learned early in my career is that if you want to know what an organization is designed to do, look at what it delivers.  All organizations are designed perfectly to do exactly what they are doing.  Simple and straightforward.  If you want it to do something different, you have to change the design.  Now, one more clarification.  This is the organization design, not the org chart.  Over the years, organization reporting structures have been confused with the organization design.  They are not the same, and in fact, need to jointly optimized to deliver the best results.

This is a key skill of our new generation of transformational leaders.  They understand the basic mechanics of creating sustainable change inside of organizations.  You only need to know a few things to do this, and learn subtlety different ways of engaging people.  Once you see it, you'll wonder why you hadn't done it all along.

You can learn more about this in The Ten Tasks of Change (Jossey/Bass:Pfeiffer, 2001) or Inspirational Presence (Morgan James, 2009).

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