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Awaken the leader in you

2010-11-30T20:55:00.001-08:00

Ten easy steps to developing your leadership skills

By Sharif Khan

1. Humility. Leadership starts with humility. To be a highly successful leader, you must first humble yourself like a little child and be willing to serve others. Nobody wants to follow someone who is arrogant. Be humble as a child. Always curious, always hungry and thirsty for knowledge. For what is excellence but knowledge plus knowledge plus knowledge - always wanting to better yourself, always improving, always growing.

When you are humble, you become genuinely interested in people because you want to learn from them. And because you want to learn and grow, you will be a far more effective listener, which is the #1 leadership communication tool. When people sense you are genuinely interested in them, and listening to them, they will naturally be interested in you and listen to what you have to say.

2. SWOT Yourself. SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Although it’s a strategic management tool taught at Stanford and Harvard Business Schools and used by large multinationals, it can just as effectively be used in your own professional development as a leader. This is a useful key to gain access to self knowledge, self-remembering, and self-honoring.

Start by listing all your Strengths including your accomplishments. Then write down all your Weaknesses and what needs to be improved. Make sure to include any doubts, anxieties, fears, and worries that you may have. These are the demons and dragons guarding the door to your inner attic. By bringing them to conscious awareness you can begin to slay them. Then proceed by listing all the Opportunities you see available to you for using your strengths. Finally, write down all the Threats or obstacles that are currently blocking you or that you think you will encounter along the way to achieving your dreams.

3. Follow Your Bliss. Regardless of how busy you are, always take time to do what you love doing. Being an alive and vital person vitalizes others. When you are pursuing your passions, people around you cannot help but feel impassioned by your presence.

This will make you a charismatic leader. Whatever it is that you enjoy doing, be it writing, acting, painting, drawing, photography, sports, reading, dancing, networking, or working on entrepreneurial ventures, set aside time every week, ideally two or three hours a day, to pursue these activities. Believe me, you.ll find the time. If you were to video tape yourself for a day, you would be shocked to see how much time goes to waste!

4. Dream Big. If you want to be larger than life, you need a dream that’s larger than life. Small dreams won’t serve you or anyone else. It takes the same amount of time to dream small than it does to dream big. So be Big and be Bold! Write down your One Biggest Dream. The one that excites you the most. Remember, don’t be small and realistic; be bold and unrealistic! Go for the Gold, the Pulitzer, the Nobel, the Oscar, the highest you can possibly achieve in your field. After you.ve written down your dream, list every single reason why you CAN achieve your dream instead of worrying about why you can’t.

5. Vision. Without a vision, we perish. If you can’t see yourself winning that award and feel the tears of triumph streaming down your face, it’s unlikely you will be able to lead yourself or others to victory. Visualize what it would be like accomplishing your dream. See it, smell it, taste it, hear it, feel it in your gut.

6. Perseverance. Victory belongs to those who want it the most and stay in it the longest. Now that you have a dream, make sure you take consistent action every day. I recommend doing at least 5 things every day that will move you closer to your dream.

7. Honor Your Word. Every time you break your word, you lose power. Successful leaders keep their word and their promises. You can accumulate all the toys and riches in the world, but you only have one reputation in life. Your word is gold. Honor it.

8. Get a Mentor. Find yourself a mentor. Preferably someone who has already achieved a high degree of success in your field. Don’t be afraid to ask. You.ve got nothing to lose.

Mentors.ca is an excellent mentoring website and a great resource for finding local mentoring programs. They even have a free personal profile you can fill out in order to potentially find you a suitable mentor. In addition to mentors, take time to study autobiographies of great leaders that you admire. Learn everything you can from their lives and model some of their successful behaviours.

9. Be Yourself. Use your relationships with mentors and your research on great leaders as models or reference points to work from, but never copy or imitate them like a parrot.

Everyone has vastly different leadership styles. History books are filled with leaders who are soft-spoken, introverted, and quiet, all the way to the other extreme of being outspoken, extroverted, and loud, and everything in between. A quiet and simple Gandhi or a soft-spoken peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter, who became president of the United States and won a Nobel Peace Prize, have been just as effective world leaders as a loud and flamboyant Churchill, or the tough leadership style employed by .The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher.

I admire Hemingway as a writer. But if I copy Hemingway, I’d be a second or third rate Hemingway, at best, instead of a first rate Sharif. Be yourself, your best self, always competing against yourself and bettering yourself, and you will become a first rate YOU instead of a second rate somebody else.

10. Give. Finally, be a giver. Leaders are givers. By giving, you activate a universal law as sound as gravity: .life gives to the giver, and takes from the taker. The more you give, the more you get. If you want more love, respect, support, and compassion, give love, give respect, give support, and give compassion. Be a mentor to others. Give back to your community. As a leader, the only way to get what you want is by helping enough people get what they want first. As Sir Winston Churchill once said, .We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

SO WHAT IS REALLY "UP" WHEN YOUR ARE NOT?

2010-10-13T05:02:00.001-07:00

Road Ahead Magazine had an awsome article in the May 2010 edition on p18 on what the implication of driver fatigue can be.

We believe that through proper communication (from drivers to management) and training (with drivers and management) many of the causes of fatigue can be resolved.

BEING OF GOOD EMOTIONAL STATE IS VERY IMPORTANT

2010-09-24T11:09:00.000-07:00

It is illegal to drink and drive, it is a crinimal offence to talk on your cellphone and drive, but have you concidered how iresponsible it is to be mad and drive? Accoring to The Unofficial dmv guide, the influence of emotions can be even more than that of alcohol or texting on your cellphone.

Does this look like someone you want to give a few million rand to and say: "lease drop this off for me?"

Because we are never free from emotions and trauma, it is best you give your drivers the tools to cope with what is happening to them!!

PLUG INTO TRAINING... BE EMPOWERED

2010-09-24T11:08:00.000-07:00

"Knowledge is power, and you are granting us power" Macfarlen (Vector: Roodepoort)

"No one will promote strikes because we have the knowledge from Andebe to communicate" Luvuyo (Vector: Roodepoort)

"I am sure my employer will in my work see a difference" John Powell (BMH)

JUST FOR FUN

2010-09-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

JUST FOR FUN!! HOPE YOU ALL HAVE AN INSANELY AWESOME WEEKEND!!

WHERE IS YOUR TREASURE?

2010-09-24T11:05:00.000-07:00

"Follow your passion and you will bump into your purpose"

"Get a training provider with passion... SEE THE DIFFERENCE!!"

I posted the Treasure (Tree63) video** for you because we want the world to know that Andebe's treasure is in training. Training is our only focus and therefore developing new training methods, manuals and facilitators is just another day on the job!

Watch the video!!

** I know the image-quality is not all that good, but the song definitely is!!

HAVE YOU CONCIDERED THE PHYSICAL WELL BEING OF YOUR DRIVERS

2010-09-24T11:03:00.000-07:00

This truck ended up in the canal after the driver had a heart attack!!

Have you at all concidered the physical well-being of your employees? Or is it their problem? The reality is; if you do not impliment the right systems of screening, give your employees sufficient training on Health and Safety, it can very soon BECOME your problem!

Some of the things that increases your risk for heart failure is:

Smoking
Uncontrolled Diabetes
Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Uncontrolled stress and anger

Therefore, invest in your people educate them, train those you entrust with your valuable vehicle and cargo.

DRIVING A LITTLE SLOWER SAVED HIS LIFE

2010-09-16T23:59:00.000-07:00

You can check out the article if you want to. Because this guy was driving the speed limit, the pole took the easiest path and pierced only his right loung.

"Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery"

Horton, Doug

"If a woman driver ahead of you signals a left turn, be careful, she may turn left"

Unknown, Source

WELCOME JULIA

2010-09-08T23:35:00.000-07:00

Andebe welcomes:

Julia Cossa from Waterberg FET College.

Thank you for your hard work, may you always make a difference where ever you go!

We wish you luck with the upcomming moderation.

THINK BEFORE YOU DO

2010-09-08T11:53:00.000-07:00

There are certian things that will obviously never happen to you right?!

What if it does happen??

Let's say you get to your truck and it is overloaded, or not 100% roadworthy?? What do you do? Nothing - because NOTHING will happen?!

Will it "never" cause an accident? break down? overturn? or even worse - kill anybody??

WRONG!!!

"It happens!!"

Are you a responsible driver or do you risk other people's lives?

Join ANDEBE in our fight against road accidents!

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations!!

2010-09-08T11:39:00.000-07:00

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better"

Bill Bradley

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

At the end of the day we want people to function at their optimal levels... How can they do that if they do not even know what they are capable off?

At Andebe Training and Skills Development we focus on people, making them understand, and reach for their full potential!

WHAT IF...

2010-09-01T05:29:00.000-07:00

"...Of the 148,500 truck and bus crashes in the U.S.... More than half of the truck accidents were related to truck driver error..."**

There is a lot of things money can buy, but life is not one of them. Why risk it? Every time you get behind the wheel of a truck you should be at your best because you are risking your life and the lives of all those around you.

Therefore, Andebe introduced a screening proses to make sure that the people you trust your vehicles, and our lives with, are capable of doing what is required of them when it is required of them!!

** See full article here

Conflict is the Beginning of Consciousness!!

2010-09-01T05:27:00.000-07:00

There is always a time and place for everything!
There will always be conflict!
At Andebe we teach our students how to handle it in a positive way in order to achieve maximum results!!

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

For excellent results combine subjects like Managing Self Development with Operate in a Team! Remember Knowledge is Power!

Cartoon from (http://www.kaaskrul.com) Created by Willem-Jan "WeeJee" Olwagen

NO SAFETY, NO HEALTH, NO LIFE

2010-08-26T00:15:00.000-07:00

Have you considered the effect of workplace injuries and work related illness on your business?
According to http://www.hse.gov.uk/ 29.3 million days were lost overall (1.24 days per worker), 24.6 million due to work-related ill health and 4.7 million due to workplace injury.

Therefore, in 2008/09 more days were lost to illness and injury than workers employed.
You know what your profit per day is, so do the calculations!

Taking all this into consideration, Andebe decided to offer the Health and Safety unit standards on all our programs!

Cartoon from (http://www.kaaskrul.com) Created by Willem-Jan "WeeJee" Olwagen

The Art of Communication is the Language of LEADERSHIP*

2010-08-26T00:14:00.000-07:00

"Communication is by definition a two way stream"

"Communication is only 7% words"

"If speaking is silver, then listening is gold."

These are just some of the things you will learn in Unit standards like: Managing Self Development, Customer Relations and Basic Business Principles. All of which Andebe is accredited for.

* James Humes

Cartoon from (http://www.kaaskrul.com) Created by Willem-Jan "WeeJee" Olwagen

2010-08-18T01:57:00.000-07:00

Transport is not only about driving a truck, training is not only about learning people to drive a vehicle. Customer Relations, HIV/AIDS and Managing Self-Development to name but a few can all influence profits, productivity and business growth! Happy and motivated employees equals a productive work force. For more info see our article in the Road Ahead magazine (Edition 3) p17

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2010-08-11T06:16:00.000-07:00

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