I Spent 44 Years In The
Workforce With Over 30 Of Those In Management.
As A Manager My Responsibilities Required Me To Assemble And Supervise Teams Of People, Organize Trade Shows, Sales Meetings And Seminars That Included New Products Training.
In My Personal Life I Convened
A Fastball League, Organized Fastball Tournaments And Literally Hundreds Of Golf
Tournaments And Curling Bonspiels.
I Didn’t Join Toastmasters To
Improve My Communication And Leadership Skills But To Use My 3 Decades Of
Experience To Help Teach Others Overcome Their Fear Of Public Speaking And To
Improve Their Leadership Skills.
Now, With All That Leadership
Experience You May Ask “What Could I Possibly Learn From Toastmasters”?
My Most Valuable Lesson Was
My High Performance Leadership Project. Those Who Have Completed It Know It
Contains 5 Individual Projects.
1.
Learning About
Leadership
2.
Choosing Your
Objective
3.
Winning
Commitment To Your Objective
4.
Working The Plan
5.
Analyzing And
Presenting Your Results
It Is The First Project (Learning About Leadership) I Wish To Address As That Is The Project That Taught Me A Most Valuable Lesson.
3 Key Elements Of That
Project Are:
VISION, MISSION STATEMENT AND
CORE VALUES.
The Vision Part Was Easy As I
Visualize Pretty Much Everything, The Results Of A Golf Or Curling Shot Or A
Given Project.
It Was The Mission Statement And
Core Values That Taught Me The Most.
I Think Back To All Those
Events I Organized And Realized How Much Easier Those Events Would Have Been
Had I Written A Mission Statement And Listed The Core Values.
For Those Interested In
Improving Their Leadership Skills I Encourage you to Select An HPL Project. I Guarantee
You Will Be Surprised At What You Will Learn.
I Was 66 When I Did Mine So
You’re Never Too Old To Learn.
Al Steele
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