How do you improve the performance of your board? If your board members are not empowered to contribute to the board discussion, chances they will start missing the board meetings when called are high. Board members mostly add value during board meetings. Below are three ideas to improve the performance of your board. Give board members specific projects An effective board starts the board chairman or chairperson. A good board chairman understands the company’s strategy, the bylaws, the competitive landscape the future of the industry. The board must identify strategic projects and initiatives that the board must deliver during the…
How to empower your board to add value
Leadership is most needed during times of crisis, ambiguity, and worries due to uncertainty about the future. It is the leader’s role to provide clarity of the direction, communicate a clear roadmap to manage any crisis and remove uncertainty and ambiguity so that the team is calm focused. Timely communication aids board effectiveness People always look up to the leader for guidance when things are not moving in the right direction. Imagine driving in a taxi, and after three kilometers into the journey, you experience a car breakdown. Depending on the extent of the problem, a good driver will stop…
Are focused. Have nice friends: Qualities of winning children Part 9
Who are your friends? Are they hardworking? Do they pay attention in class or they keep playing even when the teacher is around? If yes, such children are not focused on. You need friends who are disciplined. Read their books and do not disturb. Always have good friends. The people who encourage you to read hard. The children who are focused. If someone is always failing in class, makes noise and is not hard-working, avoid such people because they may discourage you. When you focus on working hard you score good marks. If you score good marks, teachers love you.…
April Week 2, Book 2: GRIT
Good morning Member, Click here to read April Week 2, Book 2 – Grit. >> GRIT: The Power of Passion & Perseverance They say you are what you eat. When it comes to staying a step ahead in life and business, reading great books is the food for the brains. Use this Easter Weekend to read the book, Grit – The power of passion and perseverance. By the time you complete the book, you will learn that the secret to great achievements is not due to talent but a special blend of passion and persistence. Do you have a passion…
Never give up or quit. Practice daily: Qualities of winning children Part 8
It means when you have failed, you must repeat that work or if you have just started it means that you should never give up or quit. You finish whatever you start and aim to be the best. Practice daily means that you must always repeat by reading your notes and books. Be attentive to details and always do work more than the number you have failed. That way, you learn from your experience and things go into your permanent memory. Thank you and just remember that your mind is your greatest weapon. Use it well. Download Qualities-of-winning-children.pdf (20 downloads) | ©…
Rules of winning in your career, intelligent design, and critical thinking
To win you must apply your brains to thinking. Those who find better and cheaper ways of doing things have better chances of winning. Anchor your thinking to good values. Ethical values, like religious values, provide a good foundation for leadership and uprightness. On the other hand, the absence of values is not good. You don’t want a great scientist thinker who lacks morals and values to guide his or her conduct. Imagine a scientist using his or her brainpower to modify human genes with those of animals in a way the outcome is something not human and not animal!…
