Ken Blanchard Donates Top Leadership Tips to Celebrate 75th Birthday
There can’t be many management gurus who founded their leadership development organisations 35 years ago and who still top the business best-seller lists aged 75, but One Minute Manager co-author Ken Blanchard is a notable exception.
To celebrate his 75th Birthday, Blanchard is hosting a free Webinar on 22nd May to focus on the best of what he’s taught and learnt over the years. Titled Leadership Past, Present and Future, it looks at where leadership is headed as we move into the next decade and beyond.
As well as reviewing landmark studies that first brought together scientific management and human relations thinking, the Webinar will explore some of the world’s best known leadership models and how they informed the creation of his own Situational Leadership® II, now world’s most widely taught. Blanchard will also share his top three tips to becoming a good leader:
1. All good performance begins with clear goals
2. Catch people doing things right
3. Help people get an A
“I am a big fan of accentuating the positive,” Ken explains. “Once goals are clear, managers shouldn’t disappear until an annual performance review but keep close physically or virtually to catch their people doing something right and praise them for their efforts.”
Blanchard’s Webinar will also show how the new generation of workers demand partnerships with their leaders, making leadership more about influence, dialogue, and collaboration.
“It’s really a side-by-side approach,” he says. “Leaders will be challenged with creating engaging work environments where they inspire people to bring their best creativity to work and partner for performance. It’s about teaching leaders how to value their relationships while simultaneously channelling people’s energy in the right direction.”
Watch this video of Ken Blanchard’s leadership journey here http://tinyurl.com/lbvqbka and sign up for the worldwide Webinar on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at https://www.kenblanchard.com/Events/Webinars. Time: 17:00 p.m. UK / 18:00 p.m. CET/ 09:00 a.m. Pacific Time / 12:00 Eastern Time