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    The Lost Art of Character-Building: How to add greater value to those with whom you work by doing what’s right and treating them with respect and kindness-no matter what.
    The Lost Art of Character-Building: How to add greater value to those with whom you work by doing what’s right and treating them with respect and kindness-no matter what.
    The Lost Art of Character-Building: How to add greater value to those with whom you work by doing what’s right and treating them with respect and kindness-no matter what.
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    The Lost Art of Character-Building: How to add greater value to those with whom you work by doing what’s right and treating them with respect and kindness-no matter what.

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    This book is about CHARACTER-BUILDING.

    Character-building is your ability to add greater value to those with whom you work by doing what’s right and treating them with respect and kindness-no matter what.

    It’s also one of these ten core competencies of your effectiveness and success in business:

    Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem-Solving, Awareness, Training,
    Motivating and Character-Building.

    This book will give you a far better understanding of Character-Building, its definition, its importance, and how to enhance it.

    Your character is constantly being shaped and reshaped based on your experiences and choices. You can’t be effective without good character.

    As an executive coach for over 20 years, I know what your boss and customers expect.

    Successful people know how important good character is to their effectiveness at work.

    By learning, using, and sharing these best practices, you’ll be well on your way to becoming the one person who adds the greatest value to the team - making you essential.

    Here, you’ll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools needed to master the Art of Character-Building.

    Are you a person of Good Character?

    You cannot possibly answer this question because you’re not qualified to judge yourself.

    The judgment must come from others because that’s the essence of Good Character; how you treat and interact with others-when no one else is watching.

    You can only tell me what others have said about you in the past. And how do you know if they were telling you the truth?

    This is why good references are so important.

    This is also why bosses ask for referrals from team members they trust.

    Good character isn’t something you acquire at birth.

    It comes as you mature and become a Fully Functioning Adult.

    Unfortunately, very few people in the workplace will have a fully developed sense of maturity or accountability.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdward J. Murphy
    Release dateMay 12, 2015
    ISBN9781310042003
    The Lost Art of Character-Building: How to add greater value to those with whom you work by doing what’s right and treating them with respect and kindness-no matter what.
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    Edward J. Murphy

    Ed Murphy considers himself lucky. From age 7, he knew what he wanted to be when he grew up. He wanted to be a Soldier. In 1964, four days after graduating from High School, he joined the US Army and found himself in Basic Training and Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Dix, New Jersey.A year later, Ed became a Cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In 1970, he graduated as a 2d Lieutenant headed to Airborne and Ranger School, then off to Viet Nam for a year.In 1978, Ed returned to West Point to teach Military Science and earned a Master’s Degree from Long Island University in night school. His greatest achievement during his time in the military was helping 1400 soldiers begin their college education during his last two years in West Germany as a Battalion Commander. He wanted to give his soldiers something of real value - something that no one could ever take away. After 23 years as a US Army Officer, from Viet Nam to Desert Storm, he retired in 1993.Ed then decided, with a little help from Anthony Robbins, that his second career would be as an Executive Coach. For the next 21 years, he worked for four of the largest consulting, outplacement and e-cruiting companies in America from Seattle, San Diego, to Kansas City.In 2012, Ed retired a second time and decided to document everything he learned from those he admired and willingly followed over his 50+ years in both the US Military as an Army Officer and Corporate America as an Executive Coach.Since many of them aren’t alive today to tell their stories, he wanted to pay tribute to them before their lessons were lost forever. Thanks to them, he’s collected thousands of small and simple things (tactics, techniques, and tools) that have helped and will continue to help future generations to maximize their true career potential by becoming more effective at work and in life.In 2014, Ed created TheCAREERMaker.com, a site dedicated to providing the best-in-class wisdom, knowledge, and advice on how to maximize your true career potential by teaching three simple things; how to become absolutely essential and irreplaceable to any leader, how to become more effective tomorrow than you are today, and how to find and build the career you were meant to have. His greatest joy comes from helping others avoid or overcome the problems he’s faced during his lifetime.In 2016, with the help of two partners and co-authors Lee O. Lacy and Jason Bowne, he finally completed The Effectiveness Guide, which teaches how to become more effective tomorrow than you are today by consistently producing excellent results; treating others with dignity, respect, and kindness; and helping others to do the same.Today, Ed considers himself fortunate to get to live in Phoenix, AZ, where he enjoys writing, eating sushi, genealogy, and watching movies with family, friends, and his best friend and wife, Diana.

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      The Lost Art of Character-Building - Edward J. Murphy

      INTRODUCTION

      "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through

      experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,

      ambition inspired, and success achieved."

      - Helen Keller

      This book is about CHARACTER-BUILDING, which you’ll learn about in the next chapter.

      However, before continuing, it’s important to understand that this book is just one of a ten volume set of books that constitute a revolutionary new program called LEADERSHIP MADE SIMPLE.

      It’s a real-world, Leader Training Program designed to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve by mastering these ten core competencies:

      Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating,

      Problem-Solving, Awareness, Training, Motivating,

      and Character-Building.

      I’m Ed Murphy, the founder of The Effectiveness Institute and the creator of LEADERSHIP MADE SIMPLE. 

      This training is for you regardless of your occupation,

      position, or level of authority.

      My goal is to help you rise above the crowd, to be the best at what you do, and to stand out, rather than just fit in.

      For my first career, after graduating from West Point, I served 24 years as a US Army Officer, during two wars, Vietnam, and Desert Storm, traveling all over the world. 

      After the military, I spent the next 20+ years as an Executive Coach in Corporate America working with hundreds of business executives, small business owners, and teams, in Seattle, San Diego, Kansas City, and Phoenix.

      During my career, I was always searching for why some people are more effective and successful than others. 

      As a result, I discovered that the most effective people were able to achieve extraordinary success by:

      Consistently producing excellent results.

      Adding greater value to all those who helped them produce their results- especially their boss.

      Treating all those with whom they worked with respect and kindness, regardless of how they were treated.

      Currently, I’m the author of over 30 books and create online video training courses on each of the ten core competencies.

      I created this special program from all the best practices I’ve learned from the best and brightest people with whom I served over my 77 years on the planet.

      What makes LEADERSHIP MADE SIMPLE so unique is that it provides these three things you won’t find anywhere in academia or corporate America:

      First, it gives you the most actionable best practices needed to consistently produce excellent results. 

      Second, it teaches the most critical success skills used by the most effective people in their field, which you were never taught in school.

      Third, it provides step-by-step instructions for each core competency explaining what should be done, and how to do it, and provides the tools needed to make it happen.

      These are all things you can easily learn today and use tomorrow.

      I know that as you learn, use, and share what you’ll learn here, you’ll be adding greater value to your boss and team - making you irreplaceable.

      Remember, we’re all a work in progress. So, no matter how good you think you are, you can always be better.

      Join us and discover why our readers come away saying, "I wish I knew this stuff years ago."

      This program is my legacy: to make a difference in some meaningful way to those I must leave behind.

      Enjoy the book!

      Also, if you feel this information could help someone else, please let them know. If it turns out to make a difference in their life, they’ll be forever grateful to you, as will I.

      To your SUCCESS!

      Sig 2

      Founder of The Effectiveness Institute.

      The LEADERSHIP MADE SIMPLE Series of books is available only from Smashwords.com.

      Stop wishing you were better and do something about it today.

      1

      THE ART OF

      CHARACTER-BUILDING

      "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,

      because your character is what you really are, while your

      reputation is merely what others think you are."

      - John Wooden

      This book is about CHARACTER-BUILDING.

      Character-building is your ability to add greater value to those

      with whom you work by doing what’s right and treating them

      with respect and kindness-no matter what.

      It’s also one of these ten core competencies of your effectiveness and success in business:

      Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing,

      Communicating, Problem-Solving, Awareness, Training,

      Motivating and Character-Building.

      This book will give you a far better understanding of Character-Building, its definition, its importance, and how to enhance it.

      Your character is constantly being shaped and reshaped based on your experiences and choices. You can’t be effective without good character.

      As an executive coach for over 20 years, I know what your boss and customers expect.

      Successful people know how important good character is to their effectiveness at work.

      By learning, using, and sharing these best practices, you’ll be well on your way to becoming the one person who adds the greatest value to the team - making you essential.

      Here, you’ll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools needed to master the Art of Character-Building.

      Important Notes:

      To make this book more useful for, and actionable by, everyone in the workforce, it’s important to point out that I’ll be using the term boss, throughout this book, instead of leader, manager, or employer. 

      I do this because,

      We all work for a boss, whoever pays us for our work. 

      Even if you’re self-employed, or a small business owner, your boss is your customer, client, guest, or patient; whoever pays you for your services. 

      I’ll also be using the terms member or team member instead of worker, employee, or associate to reinforce the power of teamwork.

      So, let’s get to work!

      Are you a person of Good Character?

      You cannot possibly answer this question because you’re not qualified to judge yourself.

      The judgment must come from others because that’s the essence of Good Character; how you treat and interact with others-when no one else is watching.

      You can only tell me what others have said about you in the past. And how do you know if they were telling you the truth?

      This is why good references are so important. This is also why bosses ask for referrals from team members they trust.

      Good character isn’t something you acquire at birth. It comes as you mature and become a Fully Functioning Adult. Unfortunately, very few people in the workplace will have a fully developed sense of maturity or accountability.

      This is why your entire life will be an ongoing process of video editing; saving the good and editing out the bad.

      Why is character-building so important?

      Character is the foundation of everything you do in life.

      When it comes to character building, we are all a work in progress.

      Good character doesn’t happen automatically and is too important to be left to chance. Your effectiveness at work depends on it. And there is such a thing as right and wrong behavior.

      Character is how you treat others, especially when under stress.

      We all have a duty to teach others by our example, especially the young, that honesty is superior to lying, fairness to cheating and stealing, and caring to indifference.

      Character is the aggregate of features and traits that form your nature. If you want to enhance your ability to influence others, it begins with your character.

      Successful people have strong characters and are keenly aware of how their character affects everything they do. Choose any great person from history, and you’ll find this to be true.

      True character is right behavior;

      what you say and do when no one’s around.

      Where does Good Character come from?

      This picture depicts the hands of a Father, Mother, and Child

      representing the primary and most lasting influence on the

      development of your character - your FAMILY.

      Children imprint on their parents (or whoever is their caregiver growing up) and record and mimic their behavior and attitudes, both the good as well as the bad.

      In addition, they learn what’s right and wrong from the beliefs, values, habits, standards, and religion of their family, friends, and teachers.

      Choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

      You can also learn character from your mistakes, the mistakes of others, and those who have no character.

      A character quality is a habit, a usual pattern or way of thinking, speaking, and acting.

      Like any habit, a character quality can be developed, and an undesirable character quality can be eliminated by repeatedly deciding to change your behavior.

      What would I see if I followed behind you for an entire day?

      Some so-called friends will tempt you to look the other way, take shortcuts, withhold the truth, fudge the numbers, take a little, or cover up for those who do.

      News Flash! They’re not your friend.

      A real friend would never ask you to compromise

      your values or beliefs.

      Even though you’re responsible for your thoughts, words, and deeds, there may be many hereditary, environmental, and training factors that have affected your character.

      However, this is no excuse for bad behavior.

      You’re still responsible for responding to these factors and developing good habits.

      Character can be developed by any combination of motivations or by default.

      Learning, using, and sharing what you’ll find here will help you to become the one person who adds the greatest value to your team - making you essential.

      Hopefully, this book will enhance your sense of right and wrong and strengthen your character.

      Character Always Matters!

      2

      BY KNOWING HOW

      CHARACTER IS LEARNED

      "Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness,

      generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than

      anything else, it is about how we treat other people."

      - Dennis Prager

      Where does character come from, and how can it be enhanced?

      Why is it important to Tell the Truth?

      As a Cadet at West Point, I was subject to their Honor Code.

      The Code states,

      A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.

      Fortunately, my parents had prepared me well.

      From a very early age,

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