How To Build A Career and Life You Love

Ever wonder why some people seem to have the greatest life, be the most-popular person around or have more power than others? Relationships are truly fragile! When we lead others or work in a group with others, we cannot forget how important it is to be intentional about getting along. This is especially true if we are in a leadership position.

Being a leader of course means having followers. It also implies that we must always be seen as doing the right things for the right reasons. If there are policies in place or laws, we need to do our best to make sure we are respecting them. This means doing them and upholding them. "Bending the rules" can be seen as cool to some, but by others, it the long-run it will cause people to question your integrity.

Effective leaders find ways to help people understand how important it is to follow policies and laws. After all, they are usually in place to project people, culture and standards. If they need to be changed, then put action in place to change them, but until then, know they help create a sense of safety that really is important in workplaces and society.

We can never afford to compromise a standard because our integrity is the only real thing we have. If you are not faithful to a coworker, boss, friend or loved one, then others will question whether they can trust you. Leadership and relationship strength is measure through levels of trust after all.

When someone questions your integrity, own your mistakes and make things better through apologies and doing things right. Be seen as someone who always has the best interest of others in mind. Doing the right thing as it relates to expectations of others is the right thing to do, unless people will be harmed in any way.

The key to building successful workplace relationship and stronger relationships at home is by building and maintaining trust and giving others the benefit of the doubt that they are doing the same thing too. This may sound pretty simple. And for the most-part it is.

We learn a lot of wisdom in kindergarten. Things like being honest, follow the rules, apologize when we bite someone and put your coat on it is cold outside are all great examples of things that still apply to us as adults. It is all about relationships and doing things to stay happy and healthy.

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Kindest regards,
Dr. Paul L. Gerhardt, PhD
The Organizational Doctor TM
www.paulgerhardt.com

The Number One Key To Success Revealed

Ever wonder what the absolute key of being successful in life, career, and relationships are? Well, in my over a decade doing leadership training and working with leaders of numerous organizations in various industries, I am confident I know what it is.

It is simple, but complex. The number one key of being successful and happy is to know yourself first. Yep! That is it! What it truly implies is that we take time to do personal assessments and start seeing our world through the eyes of others. We need to know our own strengths, weaknesses and triggers.

Professionally, I recommend doing assessments that gathers the insights from others about us. I like doing 360 degree evaluations of leaders. Most followers want their bosses to be better, as do peers. When safely dispersed 360 degree evaluations facilitated by an external excellent leadership trainer can be a real eye-opener.

You do not have to be a CEO of a major corporation to benefit from these types of personal assessments. Anyone can take personal assessments that help them learn about themselves. My two top-favorite personality assessments I am certified to facilitate are Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator (MBTI) and DiSC Behaviors.

Each of these tools help us see what our preferences are and what we do. They also help us understand why we do what we do. Once we know about ourselves, then we can make the necessary changes in our actions, communications and ideas to better get along with others.

The key to being successful in life is to know yourself and know that we need others to help us get what we need. There is enough success in this world for all of us. If we want to be truly happy, then we need to change our own self first and make it our number one intent get along with others.

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Thanks so much for taking the time to read this. Make it a great day. (We get to choose how we feel about it).

Kindest regards,
Dr. Paul L. Gerhardt, PhD
www.paulgerhardt.com

Choose to Create a Life You Love

Tired of the way your life is going? Make some changes. Ask yourself what your perfect life would look like, then create a plan of action to make those goals happen. Do something now. It takes moving one foot at a time to move forward. This is the way that it works with everything. Slow and steady win the race.

Start by rating your life on a scale from 1 to 10. If you decide that you are a perfect 10, start counting how many things you are thankful for. Make a real list. If your life is five or lower, decide what it is about your life that you are not happy about then change those things. Set your goals. Be as clear as you can be about what you want. Do not worry about others, this is about you and you alone.

We create our own successes. Things in motion stay in motion. Get moving!

Make it a great day!

Kindest regards,
Paul
www.paulgerhardt.com