Leadership Tip: Dream On

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The real meaning of leadership - By Sylvia Lafair

Remember when you were a kid and the first evening star began to beckon in a slowly dimming sky? Were you the kid who said "star light, star bright, I want the wish I wish tonight?"

Did someone tell you to stop being "so childish" or were you supported in wishing your dream?

It has been said that without vision the people will perish. When we stop looking toward an ideal that we are reaching for the world becomes flat and stale. In all leadership development programs there needs to be a module on keeping dreams alive.

So, take a few minutes and do the following exercise. Read this and then give yourself a "DREAM BREAK" (better than a cup of coffee!).

Close your eyes and see yourself walking through a wooded area on a sunny spring day. When you get to the clearing you will see beautiful wild flowers that are purple, red, yellow and blue. Take a minute just to enjoy the array of colors and continue your journey where there is a hill to climb. When you get to the top of the hill look down and you will see a crowd of people smiling and waiting to hear you speak. This is your "I have a dream" moment. Tell the group what your deepest hope is and how you are going to help make what you want come true. See, in your mind's eye how what you want is possible and the kind of help you need to get where you want to go. Complete your short speech and start down the hill. Stop and pick a bouquet of flowers to put on your desk and continue through the woods back to where you started.

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Developing leaders and transforming teams is my speciality. As a clinical psychologist I know that we bring the behaviors we learned in our original organization, the family, into our present work organization. The key to leadership is understanding how individuals form a system and how that system impacts the bottom line. I have worked globally and find that the core of relationships is much the same whether in California, China,or Chile. My book "Don't Bring It to Work (Jossey Bass) offers tools and strategies for developing collaborative work cultures and important core techniques for entrepreneurs to have motivated and fast moving teams. I am a speaker at national conferences, radio, and television. You can follow my blogs at http://www.sylvialafair.com/blog/ . You may contact Sylvia Lafair, PhD, author of "Don't Bring It to Work" directly at, sylvia@ceoptions.com or 570-636-3858 for any questions or feedback you may have.
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