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Funny and true cartoon about compromising and colloborating in order to achieve the goal.

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How to be more confident and respected as a leader by Jonathan Sprinkles

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How to be more confident and respected as a leader by Jonathan Sprinkles

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How to Be More Confident and Respected as a Leader

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http://www.JSprinkles.com - One of America's top experts for high-level leaders and achievers, Jonathan Sprinkles speaks on how to connect through leadership, how to overcome your fears, how to get motivated, how to sell, and how to achieve peak performance. Get a full copy of this talk at http://www.SeminarsOnDVD.com

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This is a picture of me and my fiance, his name is Ivan. This person is very confident in himself and in his business, however, the most important thing is that he makes other people confident in it. This attracts people, they want to follow him. For example, on the picture, you can see a reward for the Marathon of 43 km. Yes, he made it! And his friends and like-minded people also made different distances, because Ivan was confident in their success. As I remember, they spent 2 month of everyday training.

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These are short-term goals that I need to start achieving immediately, however they will grow into long-term goals, where, at the end, I will definitely have a success. I believe in my strength and wish a huge luck to myself.

References
Daft, R. L. (2015). The Leadership Experience (6th ed.). Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BWWJul-1TT6Ejm-JIKsBqYKwVVo2Ta-7/view

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This is a picture of me with my wonderful grandparents. Their names are Zoya and Alexey. I may announce them as exemplary people, teachers and leaders.They have 35 years of teaching experience. My grandfather is still working in school on part-time position. During this working trip, they both know how to find a right word, how to make students interested or involved and, of course, how to find compromises with students and teachers, as well as any other people around them.

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My second goal is to become a leader, who has an ability to find compromises easily. It is very significant to find a golden mean between two opinions, which can be equally important, and the combination of those can be a result of a huge success.

The Action Plan

The first action is a developing of transactional leadership skills in my behavior. This is a process, when both sides recognize needs and desires of each other. I need to start expressing myself in a proper way. For instance, provide a clear list of reasons that supports my opinion. When my opponent does not want to hear me, I keep silent, what is a huge obstacle to successful communication. Exchange process includes open communication, which will help to share all types of information, thoughts and ideas, and find the beginning of a compromise. "An open communication climate helps alleviate tension and conflict" (Part 4, Ch. 9, p. 266). Therefore, it will make my personal and professional life easier if I will act with the wisdom and avoid conflicts.

The second action is the ability to analyze my behavior, which leads to the end result, positive or negative. When I make a step out of a conversation, I avoide and ignore the whole situation, thereby depriving myself of a chance to get a result. In order to get a desired result, I need to act properly, particularly being able to find a compromise. A Simple Model of Motivation is a perfect tool that I will use in a future. It will help me to figure out what my need is, what behaviour I should have and what rewards I will get (Ch.8, p. 226). It will increase my motivation, because for a positive and right action, reward is coming. In terms of personal and professional life, it will be very easy for me to make important connections and achieve the desired outcome.

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My first goal is to become a self-confident person and a leader. It is very important for me, because confident individual has more chances to get more knowledge and try more things in life.

The Action Plan

The first action is to change a mental model by challenging my assumptions. Mental model is connected with my internal picture in a brain that affects my "thoughts, actions, and relationships with others" (Daft, 2015, Part 3, Ch. 5, p. 136). Because of this picture, I divided many things in my life on good and bad or safe and dangerous, based on my own or someone's positive and negative experience in the past.

On the example, I want to explain how I am going to challenge my mental model. There was few times when my manager asked me to meet new workers and show the workplace, and I was very confused. What should I do in the next time? In order to be more self-confident and draw a positive internal picture in my brain, I need:

spend my free time at the workplace and make some notes about significant things;

ask a manager if there is something that he wants me to explain;

search the website of the company to refresh my mind;

present a speech to someone, so this person can help with editing.

After completing this process several times, I will be much self-confident and positively minded. This exercise will help me in other cases as well. "An accurate mental model helps a leader understand how to arrange the key elements", in order to get a desired result (p. 137). Self-confidence will help me to make decisions and obtain new skills in my personal life, for example, if I will learn how to cook, my husband will be the happiest person ever and I will increase my self-esteem and self-confidence. Moreover, it will help me to build my career and make a significant contribution to the company where I will work.

The second action is to start taking a risk. In order to become a self-confident person and a leader, "risk have to be taken" (Part 2, Ch. 2, p. 39). I like to keep everything in control, thereby I am a prisoner of my own frames. "At Google, leaders believe that risk-taking, a little craziness, and making mistakes are important for the sake of innovations. Too much structure and control is considered death of the company" (Part 3, Ch. 5, p. 138).

For example, I am scared of interviews, so I need to take a risk and start going on them. I need to read about the company, prepare my speech and outfit ahead to feel more self-confident. There is an opportunity that the interview can be failed, but this a huge opportunity for me to get new experience, understand the details, which employer is looking for, analyze my mistakes and improve my skills to the next interview. In future, it will help me to get a perfect position, and a company will get a wonderful employee Diana.

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Hello and Warmest Welcome to My Wonderful and Impressive Digital Storyboard!

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Hello and Warmest Welcome to My Wonderful and Impressive Digital Storyboard!

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In this journey, two goals and actions to achieve them will be considered, as well as the benefits for myself and other people will be identified. Scroll down and enjoy the trip, filled with the leadership concepts, training YouTube videos , personal photographs and life examples.