Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, Third Edition

7Essential Skills for One-on-One Leadership

 

Ken Blanchard and Fred Finch

We are firm believers in the 80/20 rule: Eighty percent of the results that leaders need to get in working with their people come from about 20 percent of the leadership activities they could do. The three secrets of The New One Minute Manager¹ are a perfect example. In this updated version of their original book, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson focus on three basic concepts: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Re-Directs. While these three skills probably represent only 20 percent of the activities that managers engage in, these skills could provide managers with the outcome they desire (the 80 percent). These three skills are core to effective partnering ...