Personal Leadership Insight

Personal Leadership Insight

This blog has been written since 2007 by Rhett Laubach, professional speaker, leadership expert, owner of YourNextSpeaker, LLC and Co-Founder of PLI, Inc. Ryan Underwood, CEO of TRI Leadership, LLC and Co-Founder of PLI, Inc., is a contributing author. The purpose of this writing is to help you develop leadership and life skills.

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5.29.2007

The Unmade Leader: The Preview Book is Available!

Click on this link to purchase our preview book version of The Unmade Leader. This 30-page preview book will introduce you to our new BIG I...

5.25.2007

Teaching PLI: 100th Post - 100 Ways to Know You Were a Leader Today...

This is my 100 th post on the Personal Leadership Insight blog. Wow! Since starting this blog I have seen the birth of my second beautiful...

5.22.2007

Goal Processing: The Art of Learning

Josh Waitzkin, the chess wunderkind who was the subject of the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer", has written a groundbreaking b...

5.21.2007

Masterful Communication: The Language of Leadership

Leadership is influence. Your language determines your influence. Digest this article to super-charge your leadership, your influence and yo...

5.17.2007

Goal Processing: 3 Mind-Altering Excellence Tips

For those students experiencing defining moments this month (and for those of us who need a defining moment), here are three mind-altering e...

5.14.2007

Integrity: 9 Ways to Keep Commitments

Doing what you say you will do is at the heart of living with integrity. Here are some commitment-keeping thoughts… 1. Know when to say n...

5.10.2007

Emotional Maturity: The Dip Manifesto by Seth Godin

There are a handful of current authors that I admire above others for their creativity, relevance and focus on discussions that interest me:...

5.09.2007

Fostering Relationships: Networking the Right Way

Click over to Jugglezine and read their current article about making networking work for you. Also, if you are interested in time managemen...

5.08.2007

Wise Judgment: Quotes

“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.” Euripides “If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yo...

5.04.2007

Wise Judgment: The Stop Light Principle

The Stop Light Principle "Great decision making is an act of getting emotions and systems to play nice together." The Stop Light ...

5.03.2007

Masterful Communication: The Name Tag Guy's Speaking E-Book

Click over to my speaking blog - http://speak.terapad.com - to view a link to a phenomenal (and free) E-Book from Scott Ginsberg, the Name...

4.30.2007

Fostering Relationships: Perception and the Person

In developing your personal network and in your dealings with perfect strangers, remember this phrase... "If you can't get past the...

4.27.2007

The Unmade Leader: The Jinga Moment

We are all born with others trusting us. The human baby is the international symbol of trust, kindness and innocence. At some moment, that t...

4.26.2007

Integrity: Placed... Re-engineering Responsibility

A select few in this world are chosen to serve in a position of influence. They are placed as protectors of integrity and faith in a world ...

4.23.2007

The Unmade Leader: American Airlines and The Middle Earth Moment

The Middle Earth Moment is when a person focuses more on what's going on in their own little world, ignores the needs of someone else an...

4.19.2007

The Unmade Leader: Brainstorming the Book...

April 18, 2007 "The Unmade Leader" Brainstorming Output Click on the image to enlarge The left-hand column are the traits we are b...

4.17.2007

The Unmade Leader: The Green Grass Moment

Review any posts titled "The Unmade Leader" to get up to speed on this concept. In short, our upcoming book takes a look at a new...

4.13.2007

The Unmade Leader: Can Leaders be Remade?

Over the past week I have been unpacking our new answer to the old question, "are leaders born or made?" The concept statement is....

4.12.2007

General: The Uphill Journey

Hit the green play button to play and/or right-click the song title to download this grand finale song from my leadership guitar keynote ...

4.11.2007

The Unmade Leader: What Are Other Moments That Unmake Leaders?

We are continuing to examine our new approach to the question, "are leaders born or made?" The concept statement is... "Leade...

4.10.2007

The Unmade Leader: What does unmade mean?

The past few posts have focused on a new approach to the answer of "Are leaders born or made?" The idea is this... "Leaders a...

4.09.2007

The Unmade Leader: Are Leaders Born With Everything They Need to Lead?

We are still dealing with the question, "Are leaders born or made?" My new take on the answer is... "Leaders are born and the...

4.06.2007

The Unmade Leader: What is a leader?

We are still dealing with the question, "Are leaders born or made?" My new take on the answer is... "Leaders are born and the...

4.05.2007

The Unmade Leader: Born With What?

For the next few days, the blog will be focusing on the discussion of my new take on the old question, "Are leaders born or made?"...

4.03.2007

The Unmade Leader: Are Leaders Born or Made?

One of the biggest leadership questions of all time is... "Are leaders born or made?" One camp thinks leaders are born - that peo...

4.02.2007

Integrity: What I Believe

There are three things I most believe in that direct everything I do and everything I am. Belief I I believe God is the creator of heaven an...

3.31.2007

Skill Assessment: Doing Leadership Right!

If you want to see how raising emotionally and socially healthly children is done right, look no further than the 18 middle schools surround...

3.29.2007

Innovative: Quotes

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy meant more to me than my talent for abso...

3.27.2007

Integrity: Quotes

“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of...

3.26.2007

Vision: Quotes

“Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” Japanese Proverb “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently...

3.24.2007

Masterful Communication: Get Past Personality to Productivity

I spent a powerful three hours yesterday with the board members of the National Junior Hereford Association . The workshop was How to Commun...

3.22.2007

Innovative: Disapprovers vs. Improvers

Not long ago I facilitated a six-hour brainstorming session with the student organization leaders of a Missouri high school. Our purpose wa...

3.20.2007

Skill Assessment: Torchbearers

One of our most popular modules for student and professional elected leaders is called Torchbearers. Review the list below to see if you qua...

3.19.2007

Integrity: Where do you come from?

WHERE I COME FROM By Rhett Laubach (circa 1991) Where I come from there is a spot of grass in an open field The field is a couple of acres i...

3.16.2007

Masterful Communication: The Visual Anchor

Any time you need and/or want a message you are communicating to stick with your audience, build in one or two strong visual anchors. Anymor...

3.14.2007

Emotional Maturity: Attitude Impacts Everything

Your attitude is vital to your leadership effectiveness because it impacts everything you do. It determines your ability to attract others. ...

3.09.2007

Innovative: The Innovation Petri Dishes

We have identified four personal attributes/habits/skills of consistently creative people. Fluency - When posed with a question/situation/c...

3.08.2007

Service Minded: Customer Service Insights

Someone explain to me why a business would do these customer service blunders... 1. Not having the hot water turned on in the customer rest...

3.07.2007

Integrity: The 5 C's of Leadership Effectiveness

Personal Leadership Insight is a framework for leadership development. One or more of the ten PLI Essentials is an area of development need...

3.06.2007

Innovative: The Barriers To Creativity

Innovative: The Barriers… There are three major barriers to individuals not exercising their innate ability to be creative and innovative......

3.05.2007

Masterful Communication: Note From Boss To Employees

Get ready to hit print after you visit this post at Execupundit.com.... Note From Boss To Employees [Click on the label below to see all pos...

3.04.2007

Emotional Maturity; Inside-Out Motivation

All motivation is internal. You and I only do things that we have either passively (out of habit or routine) or actively (out of a thoughtf...

3.03.2007

Fostering Relationships: The Effective Teamwork Formula

Click on this image, download it to your hard drive, print it off, study it and do it. It will take about a year to complete the formula, s...

3.02.2007

Service Minded: Customer Service Insights

Over the past few weeks, we have had a number of financial institutions contact us regarding communication and customer service training. If...

3.01.2007

Teaching PLI: What PLI is and What PLI is Not!

Personal Leadership Insight is not only the title and focus of this blog, it is also the monicker we developed to describe what it is we tea...

2.28.2007

Integrity: Stop, Drop and Roll!

How do we safely and effectively reconcile when we act without integrity? This is a difficult question to answer. Popular theory is that a...

2.27.2007

General: Be a Leader-in-Gear!

Are you a Leader-In-Waiting or Leader-In-Gear? A leader-in-waiting is in. A leader-in-gear is involved! A leader-in-waiting seeks comfort. A...

2.26.2007

Innovative: Every Friday at Hasbro

The Wall Street Journal today has an article about a creativity meeting that happens every Friday at lunch at Hasbro corporate in Massachuse...

2.24.2007

Masterful Communication: Rhett's Speaking Blog

Since 15% of my training time is spent just doing presentation coaching with corporate and student leaders, I thought it valuable to start u...

2.23.2007

Masterful Communication: Filtering and Indexing

Fifty years ago, access to information was king (it was mostly kept in universities and libraries) . Ten years ago, the information itself ...

2.22.2007

Vision: A 12-Year Inspiration

The next time you doubt your ability to create the future you want, watch this clip to remind you of the immaculate capabilities of the huma...

2.20.2007

Skill Assessment: Train Your People!

The PLI Essential of Skill Assessment is defined as the ability to act upon a clear understanding of your and your organization's core...

2.19.2007

Integrity: The Fujita Scale for Trust

We were discussing the PLI Essential of Integrity today and we developed a Trust Scale. Every effective leader understands and uses trust ...

General: Understanding the Pitfalls of Missing Links

[Click on the image to view a larger version. Print the larger version for best read.] The Personal Leadership Insight Blog is built around ...

2.16.2007

Innovative: Blogging Basics

The PLI Essential of Innovativeness is defined as creatively adding value. As the VP of Membership for the Oklahoma Chapter of the National ...

Fostering Relationships: Kudos to Some Cool Kids

Just wanted to foster some relationships with my student helpers at the Adair High School FFA/FCCLA Leadership Symposium yesterday (that was...

Innovative: Ask the Hard Questions

I traveled to a small town in Oklahoma today called Adair to encourage about 150 high school students. Thanks to the "DeLozier twins...

2.14.2007

Goal Processing: 2007 Day 45

I read about 15 blogs religously. Kevin Eikenberry's blog is one of them. His insight and unique take on life and leadership issues are ...

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