Jason Weigand

Jason Weigand is passionate about sports, fitness, and volunteering. http://jasonweigand.com/

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Jason Weigand is a dedicated family man who enjoys staying healthy and active through fitness and sports.

Connect with me on my new personal website where I share my interests in sports, fitness, community, volunteering, and more!

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Jason Weigand is a dedicated family man who enjoys staying healthy and active through fitness and sports.

Check out Jason Weigand on his new personal website!

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Clothes Are Communication

Sure you know the famous quote: 

“Dress for the job you want - not the job you have”

An expensive suit or a nice tie won’t make you successful - a fool in great suit is still a fool… but I deeply believe that 

Clothes are Communication. 

As soon as you enter the room, before you can even look at someone or say a word - your clothes have mad a statement already. 

That starts with the kind of clothing (jeans, skirt, ties, …) and is just as true for shoes or the colors you chose or the brands you wear. 

I try to make this statement consciously - at a date, a party, a meeting, a family gathering: be aware of what you ware.

By the way: 

the tougher the situation, the more attention you should pay to your wardrobe. 

Why?

Because you make sure to get your introduction right. 

Because it changes the way you see yourself and the way you behave. 

Studies have shown over and over that a label - even in the underwear - changes the way people behalf in public. Their choice of words changes, so does their body language and even the ways they walk. It is true and undeniably. 

Probably one of the best words of wisdom when it comes to dress codes:

“Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”

as Coco Channel once said.

Let me transfer it into a more business related context: 

You are selling yourself. Your suit/dress is your packaging.

If you are not quite sure what to wear - here is my personal guideline (for men only):

Simply try to look like James Bond in that given situation.

Be aware of the signals/ the statement your clothing is sending

Pay attention to detail: watches, glasses, shaving, socks, …

Be prepared - for likely and unlikely events. 

Stay real: Don’t use clothing to become someone else, but to underline the best side of yourself. 

And keep in mind that the best possible accessory is confidence! Especially in the moments, when you are not perfectly dressed, you’ll need a little bit more of that. Just like 007 or this gentleman:

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The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

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6 Ways HR Leaders Can Help Humanize the Organization

Remember, employees are your most valuable resource. Here's how to get the most out of a happy and productive workforce.

HR leaders are changing their strategies more business-minded as well as focusing the better relationship for success. In the past, the traditional business strategies would focus on the production and final outcomes. They didn’t care as much as the management and process as long as the result is good. Nowadays HR recruiters focus on selection because employees are their biggest assets and they won’t be able to see their company grow through times. Recruiters are seeking for people with strong communication skills and have broad-minded leadership that will truly contribute to their organization. 

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5 Business Lessons I Learned From Surfing

“Despite the obvious lifestyle differences between those who wear power suits and those who wear wetsuits, surfing can teach us much about succeeding in business.”

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“The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.”

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Leadership - where did they begin?

Sometimes during leadership meetings I tune out (during the statistics of how much/little money we are making), and I look around at all the nurse managers, administrators, educators and assorted executives; The depth of nursing history in one room, and I imagine what they were like as bedside nurses, I imagine their beginnings, how they may have been treated, how they treated other nurses, how they integrated it into their practice and how it would eventually shape their decisions in the hospital’s future. I imagine the first time they spoke up in these here meetings, the brick walls they faced, and I imagine their fear. I wonder about how they got to where they are, the people who supported them, the naysayers who tried to stop them, and I wonder what struggles they’ve faced while smiling today. I imagine they weren’t once so focused on the numbers, but on the people who were behind the numbers, and I have hope they will remember again someday. I wonder if I pay more attention, I will one day be one of those who focus only on statistics, but that day is not today. - A small fish in a big ocean (of sharks)

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Leaders goal: Speak life into every situation. Speak well of every person. Speak hope where hope is missing.

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Your Business Is Growing. Are You Growing, Too?

If you are running your own business, you are probably spending time this month planning for 2013. You might be setting sales and profit goals, or doing performance evaluations of your direct reports and talking with them about their growth goals for the year ahead.

But, what about you? What goals do you have to become a better, more productive leader? For instance:

Are you spending enough time with customers?

Are there important strategic initiatives that never seem to get to the top of your to-do list?

Do you need to find more time for your family?

These are just a few of the symptoms of someone who needs to improve how s/he manages time. Being focused is one of the key challenges of leadership in small business. But, before you can increase focus, you need do something with all those things that get in the way. Consider making these two changes as you begin 2013:

Change how you handle distractions. Is your email always open? Consider keeping it closed, dealing with email only during explicit times, maybe twice a day, such as first thing in the morning or last thing before leaving your office. Are too many people interrupting you while you’re trying to get things done? It’s okay to close your door for an hour every day so you can concentrate. If you make it during the same time each day, such as right after lunch, people will get used to the fact that you can’t be disturbed when your door is closed. Finally, is your smart phone always on? Don’t forget it has an off switch. It’s okay to turn it off once in a while, especially during that same hour each day when your door is closed.

Delegate something. Leading a growing small business is a very dynamic experience, and your priorities need to change as your business does. One of the keys to successful growth as a leader is to regularly get something off your plate. Train someone to do something that you’ve been doing. This will free up time that you need to focus on the big picture.

Question #8 of ExpressWay To Growth is “How do you lead?” Let us know if we can help hold you accountable to the changes you want to make to become a better leader.

Happy New Year everyone. The Presidents Page will return on January 7.

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What Makes a Good Leader?

Over the course of my career I have had the benefit of being surrounded by a variety of leaders. Some were great leaders that I am still friends with today. Some were just bad human beings and therefore cannot succeed as good leaders. Others were just poor leaders. Within a position of leadership you are not only being looked to as an individual who influences the career of your employees, but people seek you out for confidence, direction, and encouragement. After my exposure to these three types of leaders and after working in leadership for a few years in both large and small companies, I believe I have come up with what I think makes a good leader. Three fundamental attributes contribute to the success of a leader: transparency, communication, and follow through. Each of these establish a level of trust, confidence, and inspiration for those you are leading. It causes them to want to listen to you and take action on what you are asking them to do. Building Trust With Transparency

The word “transparent” comes  from Latin trans + parēre, meaning “to show oneself.” In the context of leadership to show oneself means you are open about who you are, what you are about, and what your company is doing. This openness can relate to a new operating procedure, a weekly goal for launching a new initiative or product, or about the reduction of a budget. If you are open regarding these types of decisions, it is going to empower you as a leader to engage your employees in the decision-making of your company and show their importance in shaping the direction of the company. For example, if you are working to launch a new operating procedure to increase the efficiency of your team there are a few ways in which you can go about it. You could architect the new procedure yourself based off your experience or maybe bring in a consultant to help you build the new SOP.  An alternative would be to bring your team (or elected members of your team) together to build a procedure that has direct input from them. By doing this you allow them to have direct input into designing a procedure they will have to use each day. These two processes produce the same outcome, but doing it collectively removes the “us and them” discussion and instead creates a conversation on how “we” are building this together to improve our company. This transparent procedure creation gives ownership concerning the direction of your company to those who do the work on a daily basis. This procedure reveals the level of trust you have in your employees in helping shape the new procedure, while at the same time creating ownership in what they are doing daily. If a problem would arise in the way an employee is working, be it reporting, procedure, or priority conflict, they are going to be more open with you to discuss the need to make appropriate changes. If on the other hand you created this procedure yourself, without their input, they would not feel that they have a right to propose a change, since you have presented the procedure as “the way it is.” Disagreement over the new procedure you created could fester for a month or longer reducing output. However, if the new procedure was created with input from your team, any conflict could now be resolved with a quick conversation over lunch or in the break room while getting coffee, all the while establishing trust between you and your team. Set Precedence Through Communication

Everyone has been involved in a company meeting where someone is speaking about the monthly/quarterly results and how great (or horrible) the company is doing. Next you hear about changes being made to “improve efficiency” and “increase sales numbers.” At the end of the meeting, you return to your desk asking yourself “What was stated in this meeting that was different from our last company meaning?” Everyone has been in this position, right? You are begging for some type of communication that moves the company to action. As a leader you are responsible for making sure you communicate to your employees the vision for the company. What you are also asked to do is provide the same level of communication about the daily task your employees are doing. In our previous example we built and implemented a new procedure for the team to use each day. If we began to lay out the procedure and we do not communicate what the need for this procedure was, what would ensue? More than likely a lot of meetings about nothing. Instead, what we need to do is answer the question “How does this new procedure help our company accomplish our goals?” If we ask ourselves this question when communicating to our employees, then a new company direction, procedure, change, or employee hire we will effectively set precedence through our communication. Establishing Procedure With Follow Through

Another element of a leader not to be overlooked is your ability to follow through. When you ask an employee to do something (or you delegate through a manger), you have confidence they will finish that task in a timely manner without much need for direction. If they do not, what is the recourse? A one-on-one meeting about why they did not, possibly a write-up for their personnel file, or if its an ongoing problem, you might possibly fire them. Now, if your employee asks you to provide some clarity on why it is taking four weeks to be reimbursed for a expense report they submitted and you failed to do so in a timely manner what would happen? Odds are nothing. The employee would eventually get their reimbursement from the company and continue on doing their job still unsure why it is taking so long. On the contrary if you had investigated this issue and found the delay with the employee’s reimbursement, you would be able to establish a procedure for expediting this new process. This new process would benefit all employees at the company, helping them get their reimbursements quicker. This action creates confidence with your employees about how you want to deal with their concerns and it creates a solution in the long term remedy of the problem. Proper follow through in this situation, and all situations throughout a company, will help build confidence in you as a leader. Be Human and Be Humble

As a leader you control a large amount of the lives of your employees. Most spend over 40 hours a week working to be a success to your company. If you treat them as a cog in the wheel, or lack the ability to lead them effectively, then you need to step down from leadership. Most employees want a leader they are proud to work for and can have a drink with after a hard day’s work, in other words, to be a leader people are proud to call “friend.”

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The Top 3 Qualities of a Great Leader

OPEN Forum contributor spoke with Pat Croce, the man who “he turned a ‘no’ from the Philadelphia Eagles into a sports medicine empire.” Croce knows a thing or two about leadership, and shared his thoughts with us:

What are the qualities of a great leader?

The first rule of great leadership is substituting “we” for “me.” Great leaders know their people must be more important than themselves. The staff is first, and the customer is second. There’s no room for narcissism on a winning team or in a successful company.

The second rule of great leadership is having a vision and confidently communicating it to the team. Great leaders will then evaluate or audit employee engagement to ensure they can successfully execute the plan.

For the third rule of great leadership, and more insight into following your passions, visit OPEN Forum.

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How To Create The Owner's Mindset In Your Employees

How To Create The Owner’s Mindset In Your Employees

What would happen to your company (or your division or your work team) if you were suddenly unable to work? What would happen to everything you’ve built? Everything you’ve planned? Everything you’ve worked for?

If you feel your heart drop down to your shoes at the very idea, you’re not alone. Most leaders feel that success, even survival, rests squarely on their shoulders. It’s very common to…

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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability

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