The Team Leadership Report

Body language provides an amazing amount of information on what other people are thinking if you know what to look for. And who hasn’t wanted to read people’s minds at some point? You already pick up on more body language cues than you’re consciously aware of. UCLA research has shown that only 7% of communication is based on the actual words we say. As for the rest, 38% comes from tone of voice and the remaining 55% comes from body language. Learning how to become aware of and to interpret that 55% can give you a leg up with other people. Here are 8 cues to look for... Crossed arms and legs signal resistance to your ideas. Crossed arms and legs are physical barriers that suggest the other person is not open to what you’re saying. Even if they’re smiling and engaged in a pleasant conversation, their body language tells the story. Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero videotaped more than 2,000 negotiations for a book they wrote on reading body language, and not a single one en

Imagination is about seeing what others don’t see. In a disruptive world, we need leaders with more imagination. We all have the capacity for imagination and applied it has the power to unlock or fullest potential. Brian Paradis was the Chief Financial Officer for Florida Hospital when he was tasked with leading the troubled organization in 2006. Plagued with doubt and inexperience, he records his journey in Lead with Imagination, to turn the enterprise around. Lead with Imagination he writes is about “how to lead and how to do it with imagination. It is first about how to be, about character, before checklists and a list of to-dos.” It’s about “how to release yourself and those you lead from the constraints of the mind’s own making and those of our organizations.” This is a powerful book. Honest, straightforward, and insightful. The lessons Paradis has learned on his journey, we can learn along with him. He cites a passage from General Gordon Sullivan’s book, Hope Is Not a M

Spirit Means Business: The Way to Prosper Wildly without Selling Your Soul is a terrific book by Alan Cohen. Cohen is the author of 27 popular inspirational books, which this one is one of my favorites. Here are 13 quotes from the book. You cannot cling to the old and embrace the new. When your motivation and intention are strong, you do what you need to do because no other option is acceptable. Everything you do represents your choice A labor of love is no labor at all. Thinking out of the box is the first step for getting out of the box.  If it’s not fun, hire it done. There are people who would love to do what you hate to do. Let them do what they do best so you can free yourself up to do what you do best. You can always change your mind. An attitudinal upgrade fulfills you in ways that exterior changes cannot. There is not always a direct correspondence between the method by which you serve and the channel through which your compensation comes. Live in the grander pict

Think, Learn, Succeed: Understanding and Using Your Mind to Thrive at School, the Workplace, and Life i s a book written by Dr. Caroline Leaf. Backed by up-to-date scientific research and practical insight, Dr. Leaf empowers you to take control of your thoughts in order to take control of your life. Dr. Leaf shows you how to combine three powerful tools in order to improve your memory, learning, cognitive and intellectual performance, work performance, physical performance, relationships, and emotional health. Here are ten takeaways from reading the book... Epigenetics shows that externally driven changes, such as how we think and react to events of life, will influence the behavior of your genes. We are not merely our genes or our biology. You are the one who has control over your thinking, you wield the power through the way you think, feel, and choose. We cannot use the same measures that we use to measure the physical world to measure the nonphysical world.  No two people h