Skip Weisman
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Skip Weisman Quick Facts
Skip Weisman has over 28 years of experience in leading organizations and/or operating his own successful business.
The first 20 years of his professional career Skip served as president or general manager/CEO for five different Minor League Baseball franchises. He began his CEO career in just his fifth year in the baseball when he was named VP/General Manager of the Greensboro (N.C.) Hornets at the age of 26 in 1986, becoming Minor League Baseball's youngest chief executive.
In the fall of 2001 Skip left professional baseball to open Weisman Success Resources, Inc. and today works with business leaders and leaders of not-for-profit organizations to improve personnel, productivity and profits by helping them "Create a Champion Organization."
Skip defines a "Champion Organization" as one that communicates effectively and takes action with commitment towards a shared vision, effectively develops leadership and teamwork throughout and diligently, consistently, fairly and effectively managers performance.
His latest White Paper Report is "The 7 Deadly Sins of Organizational Leadership Communication" available as a free download at www.HowToImproveOrganizationalCommunication.com .
To ask a question, call or e-mail Skip at 845-463-3838 and Skip@Weisma SuccessResources.com
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Is Being a “Mind Reader” Part of Your Organization’s Job Descriptions?
The Law of Specificity States: “To the degree that you are not specific in your communication that is the level of guessing or mind-reading the receiver of your message needs to do.” If people in your organization feel like they have to continually guess what is expected of them, or ‘mind-read’ the individual who just left them directions for a delegated project, performance and results are going to suffer.
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Are You Trying to Make Pigs Fly (or Expecting Employees to Do Things They’re Not Cut Out to Do)?
A common complaint is about employees who repeatedly fail to follow through on specifically requested tasks. The reason for the lack of follow through is often something like “not enough time, couldn’t get to it.” I cringe when I hear business leaders admit they begrudgingly continue to “accept” this excuse. (Accept is in quotations because they don't really accept it, they became frustrated with it and want it to change as the status quo is unacceptable and negatively impacts on business results.)
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Do You Want to Train Your People or Do You Want to Fix the Problem?
When I ask Human Resource directors and corporate training directors, and even CEO's about how they feel “training” is going to help their organizations, I usually learn that they have grossly over-estimated what “training” can be expected to do. Often there are issues occurring in the work environment that training can not help and can even make the problems worse. A lack of directness in communicating can be devastating to a work environment.
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The #1 Leadership Communication Problem That's Stopping Your Employees from Doing Exactly What You Want
Communication is a catch-all phrase for things that go wrong in companies and relationships. Unfortunately, the concept is too ambiguous to do anything constructive to fix it. I've identified seven communication mistakes that lead to mis-understandings, and cause conflicts between co-workers, and bosses and their subordinates which lead to low morale and toxic work environments. I call them "The 7 Deadly Sins of Organizational Leadership Communication." The least understood and most common of the sins is communicating with a lack of specificity.
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Just Because You Are “Listening” Doesn’t Mean Your People Feel “Heard”
The very first project I ever worked on to improve leadership and workplace communication, I did the only thing I knew how to do in starting the project. That was to gather information from team members. In interview after interview, I heard the same lament. It sounded like this, “we’ve had a lot of meetings in the past where everyone shared all sorts of great ideas, but there was never any follow through or feedback on them.”
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3 Simple Strategies to Improve Your Bottom Line by Tapping Your Most Valuable Asset, Your People
Two startling facts regarding issues absolutely impacting the bottom line of manufacturing companies in today’s challenging economy: 1. The Gallup organization, an international research company with a division that focuses on employee engagement and motivation, estimates $300 billion is wasted every year in lost productivity at U.S. companies due to un-motivated, dis-engaged employees.
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The Secret Formula of Confident Leaders
In today's challenging economy and the rise of a fickle and unstable workforce, leadership skills are more important than ever to combat the costs of high staff turnover. The new generation workforce have different values and expectations, and if their needs are not met, they walk. Many companies can't afford bonuses and extra perks to keep their trained workers and have to use other "enticements" to attract and keep their workforce, and they rely on strong, confident leaders to lead the way and achieve these miracles.
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The 3 "C's" of Leading with Confidence
It is the rare human being who can maintain confidence 100% of the time. Even the best of leaders experience dips in confidence from time to time, from context to context and from situation to situation. The key is building your 'confidence' muscles.
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Lack of Confidence Causes the Costly “Avoid & Tolerate” Leadership Style
It was the summer of 1995 and I was in the middle of my 10th season leading a professional baseball franchise, when I was forced to face my shortcomings as an organizational leader. After a very destructive altercation between key members of our organization’s leadership team, I had to address the fact that I was steeped in a leadership style built on “avoiding and tolerating”, challenging employee performance and behavior issues.
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Ask Skip: What Are Some Specific Tips to Improve Teamwork in the Workplace?
This question comes directly from a blog subscriber who has been reading my articles on teamwork the past couple of weeks. He thought the article last week (A Simple Step to Improve Teamwork at Your Workplace) offering one very specific tip to improve teamwork was a good one but was looking for more, so here are 5 more:
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A Simple Step to Improve Teamwork at Your Workplace
I’m getting ready to begin a new client project this week and in discussing the scope of the project, one of the desired objectives identified was improving teamwork among the small staff. In investigating the issue further during our discussion, another objective we uncovered was the breaking down of the silos in the organization. When the concept of “silos” was mentioned, I as flabbergasted! I almost fell out of my chair. “Silos?” I exclaimed back to my prospective client, “you have less than 10 employees, how is that possible?”
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Indirect Communication and How It Undermines Trust in Organizations
There are many different things within an organization that can kill trust and one of the biggies is ‘communication’. Further, one of the most destructive communication sins when it comes to trust is what I call ‘indirect communication.’ Most of us have both experienced ‘indirect communication’ and/or have practiced it, at one time in our lives.
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HowToImproveOrganizationalLeadershipCommunication.com
Effective communication is a key to effective leadership. The 7 common communication mistakes identified on this webpage, leaders make subconsciously sabotage their effectiveness, kill employee morale, motivation, & productivity, creating a negative, toxic work environment. Free report outlines the mistakes & solutions.
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Weisma SuccessResources.com
Skip Weisman's main Champion Organization's website has resources, programs for working directly with organizational leaders to improve personnel, productivity and profits by helping them “Create a Champion Organization,” one that communicates effectively and takes action with commitment towards a shared compelling vision.
April 19, 2010
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Skip Weisman
"Champions do not necessarily do extraordinary things, but Champions always do fundamental things extraordinarily well!"
How to get started
The best way to learn about how to transform your organization into one that has a "Championship" Culture is to download for free my two latest white paper reports:
- The 3 Strategies of Champion Organizations - available at http://www.weismansuccessresources.com/improve-company-leadership-strategy-performance-management/
- How to Improve Organizational Leadership Communication - available at www.HowToImproveOrganizationalLeadershipCommunication.com