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How A Group Of Frogs Traveling Through The Woods Turned Into A Powerful Story About Developing Leaders
Written by: Stephanie RobeyArticle Overview: Two lessons from this story: 1. Words have the power of life and death: a destructive word will rob someone of their spirit while a positive word speaks possibility and encouragement. 2. Anyone can speak destructive words, but it takes the power of a leader to speak life.
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How A Group Of Frogs Traveling Through The Woods Turned Into A Powerful Story About Developing Leaders
I love this story about a group of frogs traveling through the woods. Two of the frogs fell into a pit. After assessing the situation the frogs above yelled to the frogs below, “you’re as good as dead. You’ll never get out of that pit.” But, the two frogs kept trying to jump out of the pit with all of their life.
The frogs above continued to yell down, “give up, you’ll never get out.” Eventually, one of the frogs gave up and died.
The other frog refused to quit and kept jumping and soon jumped out of the pit. When he got to the top, the other frogs said, “didn’t you hear us yelling to quit trying?” The little frog said, “No, I’m deaf. I saw you all jumping and waving your hands, encouraging me to get out so I just kept going.”
Two lessons from this story:
1. Words have the power of life and death: a destructive word will rob someone of their spirit while a positive word speaks possibility and encouragement.
2. Anyone can speak destructive words, but it takes the power of a leader to speak life.
Growing your home based business means being proficient in developing leaders and it starts with your choice of words. From Day-1, you are viewed as a leader.
Your team is/will be a group of individuals that require different things but have the same goal. The effect of your team should be more than the sum of its parts.
1 + 1 = 3.
Each team member needs to be appreciated as an individual – as you are developing leaders, so be careful to understand how you speak to each.
Be sure to continually empower your team-members but don’t hold their hands. When they’re challenged, encourage them to bring two solutions that won’t move them around the challenge but instead, through it. Think of it like faith: when things get tough, faith doesn’t get you around challenges, it gets you through it.
Continually, remind each team-member:
• Their actions contribute to the goal
• You require their assistance
• You can’t do it alone
Have you ever felt like the frog in the hole? Keep jumping, you’ll find a remarkable way to continue developing leaders and build your team.
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About the Author: Stephanie Robey RSS for Stephanie's articles - Visit Stephanie's website  She is a successful entrepreneur having started and sold 2 companies and remains on the board of directors of the third, PhotoSpin.com Stephanie began her career in the direct marketing realm creating and producing direct mail for many of the major cable television companies and directly attributes her understanding of Internet marketing to those early offline experiences. Stephanie is a graduate of San Diego State University with a BFA in Graphic Arts and also holds an Executive MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. Read Steph's Blog Meet Steph and Dave Sign up for our Free 7-Day BootCamp: Self Employed & Rich Click here to visit Stephanie's website   A Look At The Pros and Cons Of A SendOutCards Opportunity Creating Twitter Backgrounds for Twits And Other Self Acknowledged DumDums Press Releases The Secret Weapon To Internet Marketing Promotion No Need To Downsize The American Dream SEO Positioning or PPC Marketing You Can Only Choose One |
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