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Amber-Lee Dibble shares with #bealeader her take on our December blog series frame "The Best Is Yet Come" On a personal note, Amber-Lee is such a w onderful part of our success at #bealeader this year. She joined our Resident Writer team this year and is a loyal champion of #bealeader and its community, its members and our mission.
It's an important question for all of us. We are each of us, leaders. We elect others, certain individuals, to be society's and our own community's leaders. So, have you ever stopped to think about what you really believe about leadership?
101 Flares 101 Flares × If I were asked when I became a Leader, I wouldn't be able to answer. However, I do know when Leadership became real to me. Leadership became real and tangible to me when in 2011 our entire group of Alaska Guide Trainees were all straight out of high school.
107 Flares 107 Flares × I had the opportunity to chat with Amber-Lee Dibble of Pioneer Outfitters. Amber-Lee shared with me her leadership wisdom and her philosophy of leadership. I've enjoyed getting to know Amber-Lee a bit better and I know you will as well. 107 Flares Twitter 76 Tweet Facebook 13 Google+ 4 [...]
1 Flares 1 Flares × Leadership is something everyone is thinking about. Jobs are on shaky ground, countries are in turmoil, our planet threatened by everything from pollution to over population to space monkeys using Earth as a target in their sling shot games. What are we looking for in our Leaders?
0 Flares 0 Flares × Too many people, I think would wonder, "What does luck have to do with leadership?" Sadly followed by, "What does luck have to do with leadership, other than making you/me/him/her the leader?" Seriously. (Honestly) Luck is the chance happening of fortunate or adverse events. Chance.
0 Flares 0 Flares × The progression from simply being a professional guide, to the Manager of Pioneer Outfitters and onto training the future generation of wilderness and big game guides was inevitable for me. As the lead trainer for the Alaska Big Game Guide Training programs, as a Professional Big Game Hunting Guide and [...]
When I began writing the many faces of leadership, this was a completely different post. I was leading you through, up and down some of our great creeks that I travel with our guests and clients on Horseback Adventures each summer, Big Game Hunters during the fall and on snow machines during our winter excursions.
The changes of leading in the modern world are often an issue for many people, whether they are at home or at work. Business, companies, entrepreneurs, educators and students are all questioning one way or another: what the changes of leading in the modern world will require of them and they worry that it will somehow destroy the world as they know it!
Leadership is what brought me to the #bealeader Community. Leadership is the core strength of a Professional Guide, and that is who and what I am. As the Lead Guide Trainer for one of the only state approved Professional Guide Training programs in Alaska, I am always working to become a better and stronger Leader for those that hope to become Professional Alaska Guides.
Leadership is what brought me to the #bealeader Community. Leadership is the core strength of a Professional Guide, and that is who and what I am. As the Lead Guide Trainer for one of the only state approved Professional Guide Training programs in Alaska, I am always working to become a better and stronger Leader for those that hope to become Professional Alaska Guides.
We all have situations as we lead from where we are, in whichever position we might be filling either as leaders of a business, company or group or as a teacher, instructor or parent, when it would be easier, on every level to simply do (or say) what would make everyone smile and fill their immediate worlds with unicorns and rainbows.
What does it really take to make a life in the bush of Alaska as a Professional Wilderness Guide? It takes the determination to do the best job possible, faith, a deep love and respect for the wild that surrounds us and grace.
Listly List - Resident Writer Amber-Lee Dibble Posts For #bealeader - The Best Is Yet To Come Amber-Lee Dibble..., What Do You Really Believe About Leadership?, Into The Wilderness With Grace, Purpose or Preference, How Do You Lead?, Leadership From The Yukon To Alaska, Which Face Of Leadership Do You Wear?
Be A Fearless Leader in 2014 You are a good leader. Your company or business is a success. You are cruising along, learning a lot, sharing with the team that really values you as well as your leadership. Could you be doing better? Not the bottom line, we probably all would like to be doing better there.
Listly List - Resident Writer Amber-Lee Dibble Posts For #bealeader - One Word For 2014: Fearless, The Best Is Yet To Come Amber-Lee Dibble..., What Do You Really Believe About Leadership?, Into The Wilderness With Grace, Purpose or Preference, How Do You Lead?, Leadership From The Yukon To Alaska, Which Face Of Leadership Do You Wear?
Depending on who one asks or where one decides to look, there are 6-8 different Leadership styles that leaders tend to shape their actions and progress with and use to follow the vision and goals they have set themselves to discover or accomplish.
Simply put, there is a lot that so many people don't understand about ethics. If the difference between ethical and unethical was the same as the difference between legal and illegal behavior, what is ethical and what it is not would certainly be easier to understand.
We are Professional Guides. Leadership is more than a position to obtain or a skill to master for us. It is who and what we are; we are leaders.
Empowering is defined as giving someone the authority or power to do something. Pretty vague, eh? Hopefully, I can help to shed a little light and understanding what empowering and empowerment mean to me and can possibly mean for empowering you!
There is disillusionment spreading throughout the world and social media that has become a very personal concern to me, I cannot help but believe that it should be a very big concern to us all. It is the disillusionment of destroyed trusts, gossip, betrayal and careless leadership. How does this happen?
Simply put, there is a lot that so many people don't understand about ethics. If the difference between ethical and unethical was the same as the difference between legal and illegal behavior, what is ethical and what it is not would certainly be easier to understand.
There is disillusionment spreading throughout the world and social media that has become a very personal concern to me, I cannot help but believe that it should be a very big concern to us all. It is the disillusionment of destroyed trusts, gossip, betrayal and careless leadership. How does this happen?
