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Return To Leadership Development Article Archive   Leadership Development Unites Time Management to the Daily Bottom Line By Leanne Hoagland-Smith Leadership development should include time management skills. With less people doing more things due to downsizing, out sizing and right sizing along with the impact of technology, leveraging your time management skills will help you shine as a leader within your department, your company and even your own family. Have you ever placed a dollar value to your time management? Consider, that each day you receive $86,400 in your leadership time bank account. As each second ticks by, your daily account is reduced another dollar. So your challenge as a leader is to maximize each invested dollar because once it is gone, it is gone. As a business coach, I have discovered that most of my clients have time management problems. These problems are usually married to their inability to consistently set and achieve their goals within their strategic plans. In today's hectic world, the individuals must develop their time management skills to be effective leaders. When leaders can connect their time management to the bottom line or the results, then this creates sustainability. To help the continual achievement of goals requires the application of what I call the WAY SMART goal setting criteria. The SMART criteria have been around for many years. Specific Measurable Attainable Realistically set high – stretch Target date, time driven However if these criteria were truly all that were needed, more people would consistently plan, set and achieve their goals. Leadership development would not be the number one solution being sought by corporations through business coaches and executive coaches. Within my business coaching practice, I have amended the SMART goal criteria to include WAY. Written Aligned Yours Leaders must commit their goals to writing. This simple act brings clarity of thought. Next goals must be aligned to the strategic plan to ensure cohesiveness and this promotes working smarter not harder. Finally, goals must be yours for human motivation is diminished when we try to achieve goals that have been dictated to us by someone else. If leadership development is a part of your strategic plan, then make sure you include time management within that plan. Remember, each day you are investing $86,400 in each individual and how they use those dollars as a leader must be connected to your bottom line. Are you facing repetitive challenges? Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S., an Indianapolis business coach and Chicago business coach, helps business people just like you to turn these challenges into measurable outcomes using results driven leadership skills for sustainable transformational change. One quick question,if you could improve the leadership skills of your business or even yourself, what would that mean to your bottom line, your daily productivity or sense of personal achievement? Then, take a risk and call 219.508.2859 for a FREE telephone consultation. Visit http://www.processspecialist.com/ and explore everything from free articles to learning the "Secret of Success." P.S. Leanne also speaks to help motivate individuals from keynotes to full days workshops. She can quickly customize her presentations to meet your needs. keywords: Leadership development | time management | time | business coach | smart goal | strategic plan Executive Leadership Development Program

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