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21 Ways to Develop People Management Skills in 21 Days or Less

Are you an entrepreneur or an aspiring entrepreneur? Do you aspire to be like great business leaders such as Ingvar Kamprad, Richard Branson, Sam Walton, Jack Welch, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, Mike Adenuga, Mo Ibrahim and Aliko Dangote?

Do you know have what it takes to forge a team out of your employees? Do you have what it takes to make people work voluntarily for you? Do you have what it takes to inspire your team and employees to greatness? Do you have a strong desire to develop your people skills? Do you know you can develop or improve your people management skills in 21 days or less? If you want to find out how, then read on.

In this article, I am going to reveal 21 smart ways to develop your people management skills in 21 days or less. Call it high speed learning and you won’t be wrong. People management skills and leadership skills go hand in hand; so if you are prepared for this high speed learning, then read on as I share with you 21 smart ways to develop good people skills in 21 days or less.

                21 Ways to Develop Good People Management Skills in 21 Days or Less

 

1.            Have a strong desire to develop your people management skills; you must desire to become a leader. If you don’t have a strong desire to develop the necessary people skills, then you will not be motivated to do what it takes to achieve the feat in 21 days.

2.            Read books that will help you develop people management skills.

3.            Attend a people management or leadership training course or seminar.

4.            Listen to audio tapes or CDs on personal development, people skills and leadership skills development.

5.            Look for friends with the same goal and orientation; and work together with them towards developing people skills.

6.            Sign up for a leadership or people management training course online.

7.            Volunteer to handle tasks and lead projects that others avoid.

8.            Watch leadership skills development videos prepared by great leaders.

9.            Look for a business leader and seek mentorship from him or her. Propose to be his or her protégé in return for working for free.

10.          Watch inspiring movies where great leadership spirits and people skills were displayed. Examples of such movies are King Arthur, 300, Troy, Brave Heart, The Unit and Kingdom of heaven.

11.          Read biographies and auto biographies of great leaders such as Sun Tzu, Andrew Carnegie, Sam Walton, Madame C. J. Walker and Mary Kay Ash.

                21 Ways to Develop Good Leadership Skills in 21 Days or Less

 

12.          Join organizations where leadership and people skills development is top priority. Example of such organization is Toastmaster.

13.          Join a network marketing business that trains distributors on how to manage people and become great business leaders.

14.          Visit blogs, forums and websites that share leadership or people management skill development tips and spend some time there.

15.          Look for a paid leadership coaching service and sign up. This is all about getting a personal leadership coach to guide you along the way.

 16.         Join business networks and exchange people management skills ideas and techniques with like minded people who are at the helm of affairs of great companies.

17.          Attend business conferences or entrepreneurial summit. You may pick leadership inspiration by listening to stories of how successful entrepreneurs handle business challenges and employee’s matters.

18.          Read or listen to the speeches of great leaders. You can decode the inspiration tactics of these great business leaders by simply listening to their speeches.

19.          When a situation arises that involves leading people on an assignment, project or anything; volunteer to lead.

20.          Develop the mindset required for people skills development. Remember, people skills development must begin with a change of mindset or else; you will only be pouring water on a rock. You must develop tolerance and level of understanding when working with people.

21.          After reading books, attending seminars or trying out other techniques; you must remember to work on yourself. Learning how to be a good leader without putting what you learned into active practice is simply a waste of time and energy.

Working on yourself entails changing your perception towards criticism and disappointment; working on your appearance and acquiring the necessary people skills needed to become a leader. I am talking about people management skills such as communication skill, delegation skill, negotiation skill and listening skill. In fact, I will recommend you start by studying the traits of successful entrepreneurs and leaders and work on yourself to develop such traits.

As a final note, I want to state that anyone can become a great people manager and leader; all you need is a strong desire and unyielding resolve to achieve your desire. I wish you the best of luck; see you at the top.

Global Financial Crisis and the Need for Entrepreneurship Development

Were you caught unawares by the global financial crisis? Were you affected by the mass retrenchment that swept though the globe? Are you living in the fear of financial uncertainty? Are you prepared to take your destiny into your own hands? If your answer to any of the questions above is yes; then you are going to find this article useful and informative.

                "Control your destiny or someone else will." – Jack Welch

Welcome to this business blog. This happens to be the first article on this blog so I will do my best to keep my message engaging. Today, I will be sharing with you the need for entrepreneurship development as a measure to curtail the harsh effect of the global financial crisis.

 This business blog was developed out of a need to encourage individuals to take their destiny into their hands. Everyday on TV; I see millions of people being laid off all over the world, I see people holding on to penny paying jobs just to keep body and soul together.

Everyday, I see able bodied men and women scrambling for low paying jobs and I feel sad. Despite being in the eye of the storm of the financial crisis, I think there’s a way out and that way is entrepreneurship. That’s the sole reason why this business blog was created; to take you by the hand and guide you into financial independence.

                "We have got to start grooming people to own businesses. That's the only way to keep the money in the community and provide jobs for the people." – Spike Lee

Now why am I advocating the need for entrepreneurship development as a measure to curtail the effect of the global financial melt down?

                "To build wealth today, you must be in your own business." – J. Paul Getty

I am advocating the need for entrepreneurship development because it’s the ultimate solution to restoring the economy to its former glory; regardless of the country, whether Nigeria, USA, China or Sweden. It’s an excellent solution to combating the rapidly increasing unemployment rate.

I am not writing article to lash the government because of the way tax payer’s money is being spent in the form of bailouts. Many individuals and experts have already done that but their efforts yielded no result. I am equally not writing to encourage the government to start businesses and employ people. The government has no business running a business.

Instead of wasting my time crying over split milk, I want to focus on you; I want to focus on helping you gain financial freedom even in the heat of the financial crisis. I am writing to encourage you to start your own business today.

                "Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves." – Rich Dad

                "Why don't you go to school and get a job? My answer to that question is this; I will get a job if only you can show me one that will help me become a billionaire. Unfortunately, the only job I know that can help me achieve that dream is entrepreneurship and it doesn't require a college degree." – Ajaero Tony Martins

By starting your own business; you will not only wriggle your way out of the financial crisis but you will also lend a helping hand to the government and help other individuals live through the crisis. By choosing to embrace entrepreneurship development and start your own business; you can reduce the effect of the financial crisis in the following ways.

                Global Financial Crisis and the Need for Entrepreneurship Development

 

Just like I stated above, the way out of the financial crisis is to start your own business. By choosing to start your own business, you can:

1.            Create jobs through the formation of new business ventures

Sometimes I wonder where we would have been if 50% of the money given to the big banks as bailouts was given to Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurship support institutions. If that was done, I am sure the rate of unemployment would have been drastically reduced.

                "Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers; they will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality." – Henry Ross Perot

2.            By embracing entrepreneurship development and starting your own business; you can utilize available manpower and resources that might have remain idle and put them into productive use.

3.            Entrepreneurship development makes it possible for individuals to create wealth, independence and status for themselves. Today, it takes nothing to become a billionaire. Imagine youths like Mark Zuckerberg becoming billionaires overnight with ease; that’s the potential entrepreneurship holds for those who embrace it.

4.            Entrepreneurship development will stimulate growth in other sectors of the economy with an increase in the gap between demand and supply.

5.            Entrepreneurship development must be massively supported because it’s the major driver of creativity and innovation; it will also increase productivity by means of innovation.

6.            Entrepreneurship development will facilitate and increase the need and demand for technology.

7.            More importantly; entrepreneurship development can boost the nation’s economy by increasing the GDP and reducing the unemployment rate.

8.            And lastly, entrepreneurship development will drastically reduce dependence on social security and Medicare.

As a final note, I hope I have been able to throw more light on the need for individuals to embrace entrepreneurship as a way of life and a means to better the society. I also want to use this medium to encourage those who desire to start their own business but are being held back by fear to take the leap of faith and start a business. The major challenges of entrepreneurship are usually in the startup phase. Once you strive to grow your business and survive the startup stage; you are half way there. Join the entrepreneurial train and I will see you at the top.