Skip Weisman
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Helping Leaders Create Champion Organizations Expert
Skip Weisman Quick Facts
Skip Weisman has over 28 years of experience in leading organizations and/or operating his own successful business.
The first 20 years of his professional career Skip served as president or general manager/CEO for five different Minor League Baseball franchises. He began his CEO career in just his fifth year in the baseball when he was named VP/General Manager of the Greensboro (N.C.) Hornets at the age of 26 in 1986, becoming Minor League Baseball's youngest chief executive.
In the fall of 2001 Skip left professional baseball to open Weisman Success Resources, Inc. and today works with business leaders and leaders of not-for-profit organizations to improve personnel, productivity and profits by helping them "Create a Champion Organization."
Skip defines a "Champion Organization" as one that communicates effectively and takes action with commitment towards a shared vision, effectively develops leadership and teamwork throughout and diligently, consistently, fairly and effectively managers performance.
His latest White Paper Report is "The 7 Deadly Sins of Organizational Leadership Communication" available as a free download at www.HowToImproveOrganizationalCommunication.com .
To ask a question, call or e-mail Skip at 845-463-3838 and Skip@Weisma SuccessResources.com
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Organizational Leadership Communication
Upon completing a recent project I took my client to lunch to thank him for his business. We reminisced about how we first met at my End Procrastination NOW!
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The #1 Leadership Communication Problem That's Stopping Your Employees from Doing Exactly What You Want
Communication is a catch-all phrase for things that go wrong in companies and relationships. Unfortunately, the concept is too ambiguous to do anything constructive to fix it. I've identified seven communication mistakes that lead to mis-understandings, and cause conflicts between co-workers, and bosses and their subordinates which lead to low morale and toxic work environments. I call them "The 7 Deadly Sins of Organizational Leadership Communication." The least understood and most common of the sins is communicating with a lack of specificity.
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Simple Communication Strategies for Business Leaders - 3 Steps to Changing Undesirable Behaviors
In a recent leadership workshop participants were asked to share all the things their peers, subordinates and bosses do that drive them crazy and make their jobs more difficult. Two full flip-chart pages were filled. Next, the same group of participants was asked to identify the things they wish they would do instead. There was dead silence for what seemed liked an ete ity. It seems to be human nature to focus on the things we don't want, especially the undesirable behaviors that we wish others would refrain from engaging in.r
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Organizational Leadership Mistakes – The #1 Way Business Leaders Unknowingly Sabotage Trust
Trust is the fuel that propels teams and organizations to high-levels of success. Yet, organizational leaders today unknowingly do almost everything in their power to sabotage trust. The primary way in which trust in organizations is sabotaged is by a leader’s communication style. One particularly egregious style of leader communication, which significantly undermines trust, is called “indirect communication.” We have all fallen victim to indirect communication at one point in our professional or personal lives. For example, have you experienced…
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A Simple Step to Improve Teamwork at Your Workplace
I’m getting ready to begin a new client project this week and in discussing the scope of the project, one of the desired objectives identified was improving teamwork among the small staff. In investigating the issue further during our discussion, another objective we uncovered was the breaking down of the silos in the organization. When the concept of “silos” was mentioned, I as flabbergasted! I almost fell out of my chair. “Silos?” I exclaimed back to my prospective client, “you have less than 10 employees, how is that possible?”
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A Simple Step to Improve Teamwork at Your Workplace
I’m getting ready to begin a new client project this week and in discussing the scope of the project, one of the desired objectives identified was improving teamwork among the small staff. In investigating the issue further during our discussion, another objective we uncovered was the breaking down of the silos in the organization. When the concept of “silos” was mentioned, I as flabbergasted! I almost fell out of my chair. “Silos?” I exclaimed back to my prospective client, “you have less than 10 employees, how is that possible?”
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Ask Skip: What Are Some Specific Tips to Improve Teamwork in the Workplace?
This question comes directly from a blog subscriber who has been reading my articles on teamwork the past couple of weeks. He thought the article last week (A Simple Step to Improve Teamwork at Your Workplace) offering one very specific tip to improve teamwork was a good one but was looking for more, so here are 5 more:
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Simple Steps to Begin Transforming a Negative, Toxic Workplace
Last weeks’s blog article on the 3 Reasons Employees Undermine Co-Workers, Stab Each Other in the Back and Act Passive Aggressive struck quite a nerve. I received a number of direct e-mail comments, not so many here on the blog, though. Interesting. Anyway, comments were in the vein of “Skip, this is great stuff, but what can we do about it? How do we fix this problem?” Well, the good news is that solution is simple. The bad news is, its not that easy to implement.
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How to Improve Your Work Environment & Business Results One Thought at a Time
When delivering my 7 Deadliest Sins of Leadership & Workplace Communication keynote address and seminar breakout sessions recently I’ve begun asking my audience to commit to becoming a more conscious communicator. After all, these 7 deadliest of all communication mistakes that are killing trust and team commitment in virtually every work environment are habits that have become our default way of communicating.
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The “Science” of Workplace Communication & Performance Management
When I was in school I did virtually anything I could to avoid science classes. For some reason they didn’t interest me and bored me to death. The interesting thing was as a young boy I was totally enamored with astronauts and the United States efforts to put men on the moon and return them safely to earth. I loved the Apollo space program. Yet, I couldn’t make the leap to the science and engineering to make it all happen. Somewhere there was a disconnect.
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Lack of Confidence Causes the Costly “Avoid & Tolerate” Leadership Style
It was the summer of 1995 and I was in the middle of my 10th season leading a professional baseball franchise, when I was forced to face my shortcomings as an organizational leader. After a very destructive altercation between key members of our organization’s leadership team, I had to address the fact that I was steeped in a leadership style built on “avoiding and tolerating”, challenging employee performance and behavior issues.
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Do You Want to Train Your People or Do You Want to Fix the Problem?
When I ask Human Resource directors and corporate training directors, and even CEO's about how they feel “training” is going to help their organizations, I usually learn that they have grossly over-estimated what “training” can be expected to do. Often there are issues occurring in the work environment that training can not help and can even make the problems worse. A lack of directness in communicating can be devastating to a work environment.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Skip Weisman
"Champions do not necessarily do extraordinary things, but Champions always do fundamental things extraordinarily well!"
How to get started
The best way to learn about how to transform your organization into one that has a "Championship" Culture is to download for free my two latest white paper reports:
- The 3 Strategies of Champion Organizations - available at http://www.weismansuccessresources.com/improve-company-leadership-strategy-performance-management/
- How to Improve Organizational Leadership Communication - available at www.HowToImproveOrganizationalLeadershipCommunication.com