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Welcome to your June eZine.
Ask yourself. What does leadership look like to you? What does honesty mean to you? How do you know when you're being honest or when someone is being honest with you? There has never been a more important time to be honest in leadership.
As a leader honesty is a top policy and priority. Forbes states "Honesty is also the foundation of the relationships that we have to build, both with others on our team and with people outside the company". Are you taking the time with your team to build that foundation of trust and honesty?
In this month's eZine, take the time to look at your leadership style. Explore resources dedicated to honesty in leadership. Learn the tools essential for honest leadership. Take a quiz to test what you know about leading in a time of crisis and watch a Tero Tip on how leadership is like applying for a loan.
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Ninety-one percent of millennials aspire to be leaders. What kind of leader do millennials say they want to be? Ones who strive to empower others, plan to use a collaborative leadership style, seek to lead with purpose, desire to give back to society, and do meaningful work.
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Soft skills training commands a large percentage of the dollars spent on training in organizations and is the focus of most leadership development. What exactly are soft skills and why are they so important?
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Featured Article: Who Defines Ethics in Your Organization?
Presumption of innocence is a fundamental right in most civilized countries. In criminal trials, the burden of proof rests on the prosecution which is required to meet a threshold of reasonable doubt in the presentation of evidence.
Leading in a Time of Crisis
This month's Tero quiz covers leaders and honesty during a crisis. Test your knowledge on leadership. Scroll to the bottom of the eZine to read more about the answers once you've taken the quiz.
Insight on Business Podcast: The Connections We Make
What is the importance of being connected and staying connected? Tero Trainer Kyle Hopkins joins Insight on Business host Michael Libbie and discusses tools to stay connected and how important it is to take the time to work on your business. Listen to find out what those tools are.
What Do You Need in Your Professional Skill Set?
It’s time to get answers to your specific questions, learn how to communicate better, receive support in accomplishing your goals, and experience new ways to develop yourself as a leader. Tero embraces a team-based approach to most coaching relationships - especially when the client's goals are complex or diverse.
Tero International offers Executive Coaching Programs, Professional Coaching Programs, Specialty Coaching and Virtual Coaching. Find which type of coaching best meets your needs. Take control of your professional development and gain practical skills.
Leading During a Crisis
"Your job, as a leader today, is to provide both brutal honesty - and credible hope"
Key pieces to leadership are communicating with honesty that is necessary to keep business functioning and offering the hope essential to inspiring those on your team.
This week Tero President Rowena Crosbie, talks about how leaders should craft their message and the brutality and credibility that may be included. The way leaders communicate to their team will help guide them to do their best.
While you're watching keep an eye out for one of Ro's cat named Fuji who makes a special appearance!
Here's What's Happening at Tero International
To clients, graduates and friends of Tero,
Global concern and a lot of unknowns about the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) have captured everyone’s attention. Mixed messages and non-stop media reporting leaves all of us with heightened concern for the safety of ourselves and others.
This message is to alert you to the steps we are taking at Tero to address the threat and protect our clients and workshop participants. This is our fourth update. More will follow as the situation continues to change and evolve. If you have any questions or concerns, please drop me a note at rcrosbie@tero.com.
Continue reading the rest of Ro's message regarding questions you may have regarding Tero products and Services. READ HERE.
Welcome Tero Summer 2020 Interns
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Meet Chris Alvarez, our Marketing & Social Media Intern. He currently is a student at the University of Iowa studying graphic design.
Chris loves working both digitally and on paper, and focuses on in-line work and 3-dimensional art.
Meet Jessica Durbala, our Video Marketing intern. She is joining us from Columbia College Chicago where she's studying computer animation.
Jessica's specialties include creating short films. She also likes movie marathons and traveling.
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Meet Niko Dedic our Web Coding intern. He is a student at Drake University studying computer science.
Niko's interested in software development, business startups and all things tech.
Rowena Crosbie is the president at Tero International. She is the co-author of Your Invisible Toolbox: The Technological Ups and Interpersonal Downs of the Millennial Generation and co-host of the show, “Your Invisible Toolbox.” She also serves on the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s executive committee and board of directors, as well as many other boards. Listen Here
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Leading in a Time of Crisis Quiz Explored Further:
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A leader leads best ignoring the anxiety people feel so it isn’t magnified.
False. Acknowledging and validating how people feel is vital. Ignoring these things magnify anxiety. - If there are no guarantees as to how things will play out in the future, a leader is best to say that.
True. Uncertainty and ambiguity are more harmful than the truth. - The leader spending too much time discussing what people have lost in a crisis prevents helping them see the “new normal” and creating a new starting line.
True. People can fixate on the vacation or 401 loss, which prevents them from starting again and being effective. - Leaders know too much urgency is not an ally in times of crisis.
False. Urgency helps people mobilize around what must be done. - Engaging the team and others in how to address the threats to business in a time of crisis will create better ideas than the leader may come up with on their own.
True. A leaders people are their opportunity scouts. Their ideas for how to weather the storm and make it through pulls everyone together around recovery.
About us
Since 1993, Tero International has earned a distinguished reputation as a premier interpersonal skills research and corporate training company. Professionals from locations around the world are graduates of Tero's workshops and hundreds of leaders turn to Tero for their executive coaching services.
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