{"id":493,"date":"2012-08-10T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2012-08-10T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:01:22","slug":"do-you-see-a-threat-or-an-opportunity-to-build-a-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Do You See a Threat or an Opportunity to Build a Legacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Imagine you’ve recently hired a new employee who is smart, has talent, is driven to succeed and wants to grow professionally.\u00a0 In fact, when asked where this person sees himself or herself in five years, the answer is “doing your<\/em> job”.\u00a0 How do you react?\u00a0 Is this an opportunity or a threat?\u00a0 Truly great leaders see opportunity!<\/p>\n

One of the greatest leaders I ever had the privilege of following had a phrase … “first rate people hire first rate people … second rate people hire third rate people.”\u00a0 He knew that great leaders look for the very best people, seeing them not as a threat to their own security, but rather as an opportunity to build a legacy.\u00a0 To build this legacy, he followed these steps …<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Look for talent – each person has a variety of talents, tools that they can use to attain a desired outcome.\u00a0 This great leader looked at the tools that the person had.\u00a0 These needed to be tools the person actually had, not the ones that the leader wished the person had.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Assess drive and determination – talent without the drive and determination to put those talents to work is useless.\u00a0 Desire makes all the difference in the world when the going gets tough.\u00a0 This great leader looked for individuals who had reasons for pursuing a goal; reasons that drove them to put forth the effort needed to overcome whatever obstacle might stand in their way.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Determine willingness to work – when a person has enough reasons for wanting to attain the goal, they will have the willingness to work.\u00a0 This great leader recognized that the reasons must be important to the follower, not important to the leader.\u00a0 For this reason, he asked about the person’s motivators and then listened to the answers and listened for the passion that would help the person summon the willingness to work for the goal.\u00a0 When the going got tough, because he had truly listened, this leader was able to help the follower remember the reasons why reaching the goal was important enough to keep working for.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Identify strengths – just as everyone brings talents to the table, they have things that they are really good at.\u00a0 These strengths form the foundation upon which all endeavors should be built.\u00a0 This great leader knew that people will happily do what they do well.\u00a0 So, he never attempted to force the “square peg into the round hole”.\u00a0 He encouraged his followers to do what they were good at … early and often!<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Find areas for growth – while every individual has strengths, things that they are good at, each person also has areas in which they can grow and improve.\u00a0 This great leader was able and willing to help people recognize skills that needed cultivation and did so in ways that never made the individual feel inadequate.\u00a0 Rather, he helped them recognize how good they were and how much better they could<\/em> be by taking the time to cultivate a skill and master it.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Build on strengths and provide tools for growth – this was the final phase.\u00a0 Having identified both the strengths and the opportunities for professional growth, he made certain that the person had the necessary tools; training, education, mentoring, or any other tool needed to facilitate that person’s growth and success.<\/p>\n

As you look back, can you identify the people you helped along the way?\u00a0 As you look forward, can you foresee the number of people who will attribute their success to the help they received from you?\u00a0 While only you know the answer to the first question, you hold in your hands the opportunity to answer the second by the actions you take today and in the days, months, and years to come.\u00a0 If you wish to be known today and remembered in the future as a truly great leader, you must measure your personal success against a very special standard; the people that you help to grow and achieve their<\/em> goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine you’ve recently hired a new employee who is smart, has talent, is driven to succeed and wants to grow professionally.\u00a0 In fact, when asked where this person sees himself or herself in five years, the answer is “doing your job”.\u00a0 How do you react?\u00a0 Is this an opportunity or a threat?\u00a0 Truly great leaders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,55,56,52,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-a-legacy","category-dynamic-leadership","category-lead-from-strength","category-leadership","category-what-characterizes-good-leaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}