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Happy 2009!
We hope you had an enjoyable holiday season and are excited about the wealth of possibility that the new year brings with it! We have a great newsletter this week to help you start 2009 off with a bang.
In our lead article we explore the importance of succession planning as a fiduciary responsibility to stockholders and examine the impact succession planning can have on an organization's stock price.
In our second article we take a look at personal branding and provide some suggestions as to how you can improve your personal brand in 2009.
Power quote:
"Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present."
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Succession Planning is a Fiduciary Responsibility |
 Succession planning is one of the most important elements of a strategic talent management program.
Unfortunately, many organizations do not recognize the importance of a leadership succession plan until it becomes a dire need.
When an organization is a publicly held company, rumors about its leader's health or a potential early retirement can send stockholders into a frenzy and quickly drive down the price of a stock as investors worry about the future leadership of the organization they have invested in.
Simply put, succession planning is a fiduciary responsibility an organization owes to its stockholders. Find out more... |
| Resolve to Improve Your Personal Brand in 2009 |
 Whether you realize it or not, you have a unique personal brand. Your personal brand is what people think of or say when they hear your name.
Your personal brand is not all that different from the brand attached to a product or service.
Think about a Ferrari. Certain thoughts come quickly to mind: fast, red, high performance, and expensive - just to name a few.
Now think about a Ford Pinto. Very different thoughts come to mind: slow, unreliable, and even dangerous.
Ultimately you control your personal brand. What do you want it to be - a Ferrari or a Ford Pinto? You decide.
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| Featured Guru - Daniel Goleman |
 Daniel Goleman is an internationally renowned author, psychologist, and science journalist.
Goleman is best known for his ground breaking work in the field of Emotional Intelligence that provided a whole new framework for thinking about intelligence and how to predict success in the workplace.
We have all known friends or family members who didn't live up to the expectations set by their achievements on standardized tests and other measures of intelligence, or have known a seemingly average student in high school who went on to achieve unparalleled success.
Goleman wanted to understand this phenomena. To him, standard measures of intelligence were insufficient in predicting the future success of an individual. He felt there had to be more to predicting an individual's likelihood of success.
To Goleman the answer to this phenomena was something called Emotional and Social Intelligence - an individual's capability to perceive, understand, and react to the emotions of those around them - which he has found to be the single largest predictor of workplace success.
In our Featured Guru segment this week we would like to feature a ten minute video interview of Daniel Goleman conducted by Harvard Business Review (HBR) editor Diane Coutu. In this video interview Goleman discusses his recent HBR article on emotional and social intelligence and how they impact leadership.
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QBQ! Personal Accountability QuickNote - Living Like Larry |
This week's QBQ! story comes from a most unlikely place - the TSA security checkpoint line at a major airport. At this particular airport, a TSA agent named Larry "raised the bar" when it came to keeping customers happy who had been delayed on their flights home. This is a great story of the QBQ! in action!
Creating a culture of Personal Accountability should be a top priority for all organizations. Team members who think and practice Personal Accountability can bring about incredible changes for an organization. The blame game disappears, morale increases, and customer experiences are enhanced all thanks to the power of Personal Accountability.
The Rainmaker Group is proud to offer powerful day long QBQ! workshops instilling the power of Personal Accountability into teams and organizations across the country. For more information about these workshops or to purchase John Miller's books, QBQ! and Flipping the Switch Visit our website at: http://www.personalaccountabilityatwork.com
John Miller is author of QBQ! The Question Behind The Question, the authoritative guide to practicing Personal Accountability. |
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 Important questions for you:Is your organization living up to its full potential?
Is high turnover hurting your bottom line?
Do your team members create the powerful experiences your customers deserve?
Do team members have difficulty effectively communicating with others?
Bring The Rainmaker Group in to your organization and start realizing your organization's full potential. Together, we deliver powerful and motivating keynote speeches, design customized training programs and workshops, help identify barriers to communication, and much more. We don't sell training out of the box, but rather insist on customizing it to your needs! For more info, send an e-mail to info@therainmakergroupinc.com
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About us:
The Rainmaker Group is a People Maximization and Development group located in Bismarck, ND. Our mission is to help those we serve make their difference in the world.
We hope you found this newsletter interesting and informative. If you like what you read, please give us a shout, we're here to help!
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All of us here at The Rainmaker Group
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Recommended Reading:
Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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Recommended Reading:
Emotional Intelligence - Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
By: Daniel Goleman
A Rainmaker Group Must Read:
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question
By: John Miller
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