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Contrarian Leadership: 21 Strategies to Improve Your Leadership Effectiveness

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Just because your management/leadership practices worked yesterday, doesn't mean they will work today. Break out of your rut and break through to greater success and productivity with the techniques found in Contrarian Leadership. Written by acclaimed management guru Wolf Rinke, this humorous and instructive guide distills a lifetime of management consulting experience into 21 easy-to-digest lessons to help you become a more effective leader. These cutting-edge-strategies have an immediate payoff on the bottom line. You'll discover how to:

  • out-perform your industry peers
  • apply 5 specific laws that will enable you to influence and persuade others more effectively than ever before
  • master a four step process to arrive at ethical decisions
  • apply 11 specific steps that will increase your probability of succeed in any new job
  • implement reward and recognition strategies to achieve improved performance and job satisfaction
  • build and maintain a positive organizational climate in your organization
  • master the 13 rules that will increase employee motivation
  • discover seven ways to improve profitability without downsizing
  • plus much, much more

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Contrarian Leadership: 21 Strategies to Improve Your Leadership Effectiveness

© 2024 Wolf Rinke Associates. All rights reserved for this self-directed accredited learning activity. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission, except for brief excerpts, is prohibited.

OBJECTIVES

As a result of studying and applying the concepts presented in this CPE program you will be better able to:

  • Transform knowledge into new habit patterns.
  • Use humor to build stronger cultures, unleash more creativity, and even negotiate better deals.
  • Use language that will motivate.
  • Recognize how to best internalize newly learned concepts.
  • Recognize that just about any leadership model will work if you stick with it.
  • Apply a variety of specific practices that will enable you to improve performance.
  • Implement strategies to ensure that front-line service providers respond effectively to customers’ needs.
  • Master strategies that will enable you to be respected by your team members.
  • Differentiate between management and leadership.
  • Assess how well you practice contrarian leadership.
  • Develop a positive explanatory style.
  • Enhance your ability to assess negative situations more effectively.
  • Help employees change their explanatory style.
  • Motivate yourself and your team members more effectively.
  • Identify the optimum number of layers of management.
  • Apply specific strategies to become an effective coach.
  • Reduce conflict.
  • Master specific steps to increase employee motivation.
  • Differentiate among specific leadership styles and apply the one that will enable you to build a positive organizational culture.
  • Implement strategies to promote life-long learning.
  • Apply laws that will enable you to influence and persuade others.
  • Master a four-step process to arrive at ethical decisions.
  • Apply specific steps that will increase your probability of success in any new job.
  • Recognize how to sustain energy during any change initiative.
  • Implement reward and recognition strategies that will achieve improved performance and job satisfaction.
  • Implement specific strategies that will treat all team members as if they are volunteers.
  • Recognize the key elements of an organizational philosophy.
  • Implement specific steps that will enable you to create and disseminate an empowering organizational philosophy.
  • Focus team members’ energy through the use of a Humongous Overarching Goal (HOG).
  • Implement specific steps that will make a HOG come alive.
  • Master specific steps that will increase the level of trust in your organization.
  • Practice KID (Kick in Desire) instead of KITA (Kick in the A..) to increase performance.
  • Recognize why “oiling the squeaky wheel” will decrease performance and motivation.
  • Apply various leadership strategies that will enable you to become an effective leader.
  • Implement powerful strategies to achieve peak performance.
  • Discover the power of pushing decisions down to the lowest possible level.
  • Implement highly effective quality service strategies that will exceed customers’ expectations.
  • Recognize the “cost” of delivering poor customer service.
  • Discover specific ways to improve profitability without downsizing.
  • Apply strategies that will obviate the need for downsizing.
  • Master ways to avoid the need for future downsizing initiatives.
  • Apply strategies to manage stress and improve the quality of your life.
  • Apply specific steps to make the most of every 24 hours.
  • Discover how to get more done in less time.
  • Avoid behaving like a “victim.”
  • Apply strategies to improve communication accuracy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wolf J. Rinke, PhD, RDN is the president and founder of Wolf Rinke Associates, a company that has provided high-quality CPE programs to nutrition and dietetics practitioners since 1990.
Dr. Rinke earned a BS at Drexel University, an MS at Iowa State University, a PhD in Continuing and Vocational Education (Adult Ed) at the University of Wisconsin, and interned at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He completed a test item writer workshop sponsored by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
Dr. Rinke is a past Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management & Technology at the University of Maryland, and a former Adjunct Faculty Member of the School of Continuing Studies at The Johns Hopkins University.
He has served as past president of the District of Columbia (DC) Dietetic Association and has been honored by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics with the Award for Excellence in the Practice of Management, the Outstanding Dietitian of the Year Award, and the Outstanding Service Award, in addition to delivering the Lenna Frances Cooper Lecture.
Dr. Rinke has served in numerous leadership roles at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Chair of the Scholarship Committee for Dietitians in Business and Communications; Chair of the Communication Committee, Honors Committee, and Licensure Panel and Ethical Practices Task Force for the Commission on Dietetic Registration; Chair of the Area Coordinating Committee and Chair for the Code of Ethics; Member of the Resource for Education Programs Committee; Member of the House of Delegates; and Member of the Board of Directors.
Dr. Rinke is the author of more than 500 articles, numerous CPE self-study programs, and several popular books including Make It a Winning Life: Success Strategies for Life, Love and Business; Winning Management: 6 Fail-Safe Strategies for Building High-Performance Organizations; and Don’t Oil the Squeaky Wheel and 19 Other Contrarian Ways to Improve Your Leadership Effectiveness.
His popular CPE programs available at www.easyCPEcredits.com include:

  • Beat the Blues: How to Manage Stress and Balance Your Life
  • Win-Win Negotiation: Fail-Safe Strategies to Help You Get More of What You Want
  • Time Management: How to Stretch the Time Rubber Band
  • Knock ‘em Alive Presentation Skills: How to Make an Effective Presentation for 1 to 1,000
  • The Power of Communication: How to Increase Your Personal and Professional Effectiveness
  • Manage Electronic and Traditional Meetings and Correspondence More Effectively
  • Delegation and Coaching: High Impact Strategies for Doing More with Less
  • High Impact Strategies for Achieving Peak Team Performance
  • Develop a Positive Attitude: Live a Healthier and More Productive Life
  • Goals—Your Road Map to Success
  • Manage Your Energy: Get More Done and Have More Fun

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