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 NEW GMI PRO DUO DUAL VHF WIRELESS MICROPHONE SYSTEM MICS IS INCLUDED  US $54.25
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 2 GMI PRO TRIPOD MICROPHONE STANDSADJUSTER CLIPS NEW US $69.99
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 4 GMI PRO TRIPOD MICROPHONE STANDSADJUSTER CLIPS NEW US $129.95
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 TELESCOPIC BOOM MICROPHONE STAND WITH CLUTCH MIC CLIP US $49.35
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Ortofon Spherical Pro Stylus Silver $34.99 Replacement stylus for the Concord Pro and OM Pro cartridges. |
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Pro-Mark Future Pro Jr. Drumsticks $7.29 At 13" long Pro-Mark Future Pro Jr. Drumsticks are perfect for the youngest percussioniststoddlers to early beginners. Future Pro Jr.s are very short 5A drumsticks. |
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Schalloch Pro Bongo Stand $99.99 The Schalloch Pro Bongo Stand is double-braced strong and fully adjustable. |
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Pro-Mark Scholastic Pro Pak $69.99 The Scholastic Pro Pak is ideal for the beginning percussionist. Includes 1 pair of maple drumsticks (SD1), 1 pair of medium yarn mallets (PK73), 1 pair of xylo/bell mallets (PK60), 1 pair of general purpose timpani mallets (ATP3) and 1 drumstick/mallet bag (DSB4). |
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Ortofon Spherical Pro S Stylus Black $29.99 Replacement stylus for the Concorde Pro S and OM Pro S. |
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Pro Co Wp1004 Wall Plate $17.99 The Pro Co WP1004 Wallplate has a single female XLR connector. Whether you're adding a vocal booth to your home studio or building a pro facility, Pro Co wall plates are an absolute necessity. |
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MXL Guitar Cube Pro $99.99 The Guitar Cube Pro is identical to MXL's Drum Cube Pro (see H74956), but comes with a chrome finish and EQ curve optimized for electric guitar recording. The Guitar Cube Pro is the perfect solution for capturing or recording guitars on stage, but also vocals too. The Guitar Cube Pro provides a 6-micron gold sputtered diaphragm and a 20Hz-20kHz frequency range. Placement near a stack is made possible thanks to its 140dB SPL range and ability to handle the heaviest metal or rock music. The small design of the Guitar Cube Pro allows for tight placement on stage or in the studio. Each microphone comes with hardmount clip and pouch.* Requires 48-volt phantom power to operate. |
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Why Use Golf to Develop Leadership?
Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage
There's a surprising similarity between playing the game of golf and leadership. Once the analogies are made clear to you, you'll wonder perhaps why you didn't see it before. By the time you've finished reading this, you'll know the major connections and feel compelled to find out more.
35% of registered golfers in the UK are senior managers, professionals or executives , according to Mintel. This rises to 43.3% of London Golfers. And 12.8% of all golfers in the UK are senior managers, executives or professionals - that's about 1.8 million golfers are senior managers, executives and professionals in the UK alone! (Source: GB TGI, BMRB Quarter 4 2006/Mintel) 44% of senior managers executives and professionals in the UK have played, do play or would like to play golf. (Source: BMRB/Mintel) Add another 1.4 million managers (Source: GB TGI, BMRB Quarter 4 2006/Mintel) and you realise just how big a sport golf has become - and it id predominantly ABC1 who play the game, and still predominantly male - 83%!
In part, business leaders, particularly those with some marketing or sales role, play golf to network with prospects and clients. There's certainly some social status about being a golf club member, and for sure, in part there's the 'coincidence' of playing golf and being a business leader.
The characteristics of those who play golf and those who are business leaders shows considerable similarities. For example, the desire to score well (even win) a round of golf. To be concerned about one's personal performance and strive to improve it relates to a strong personal 'Achievement Orientation'. I want to do well because I want to do well!
There are differences too, and important ones. On the golf course, the golfer is playing against the course. It is one of very few sports where the play of others has no effect on the golfer's performance at all... unless he (and it is predominantly still 'he') allows it. This is not the case for the majority of business leaders where personal performance can be impacted by the performance of others. So the golf course is the place where a player can assuredly adopt the attitude, it's MY performance that matters and only their actions change the result. This suggests the desire for control - or Directiveness.
76% of golfers play for social reasons (GMI/Mintel) - this demonstrates a desire, if not ability, in the competencies of influence and communication.
So why use golf to develop leadership?
The game of golf attracts business leaders more than other groups - & perhaps the conclusions above suggest why. So it became increasingly obvious to our team that golf could be both an attractive idea for development within this group, and that the game of golf itself could be deliberately used to develop the competencies and behaviours associated with great leadership. Indeed, many of our clients confirm the attraction of golf for our senior management training programmes by requesting training to take place at golf clubs.
Our research into using simulations has shown that given a truly safe environment to practice the tools and techniques of leadership and management, participants not only learn more (23% greater learning) than using more traditional methods like case studies, they enjoy it more (17% greater) and demonstrate greater transfer of new behaviours to the workplace (26% greater transfer).
Not only this, but studies in societies where females are considered disadvantaged in management showed a greater improvement in demonstrated management and leadership competencies after a simulation based programme than a traditional programme over their male counterparts 16% greater improvement in demonstrated competencies. The key to the success of using simulations is that they provide a realistic, safe environment to practice the tools, techniques and behaviours of great leadership (Kenworthy 2005)
Is golf a safe, realistic environment?
The great thing about golf is that it is one of the very few activities that provides a genuinely level-playing field - through the well-established handicapping system. It may not be perfect, but it's very close. This means that a scratch golfer competes fairly with a complete beginner. There are also rules within which the game must be played - these represent the constraints of doing business. There are established game rules that encourage pairs or foursomes to work together, and there are rules to foster individual competition -sometimes in business we want our leaders to be entrepreneurial and 'go-getters' - leading by example, at other times, we want them to be team leaders, or team players.
Caddies, provide a perfect metaphor for coaches and mentors. The course itself provides a varied environment, shifting according to things beyond the control of the player, but observable by them. The hole provides a target, the course provides for a strategic plan to achieve the real goal. The points scored can directly relate to revenue or profit. The clubs and balls are resources - even the golf pro can be a consultant resource.
The game of golf provides a fantastic platform to learn leadership - its safe and fair, it's as realistic as you need it to be and it's fun!
Can you just play golf to develop leadership?
There's certainly something about the game of golf that shares characteristics of great leadership, but whether it's the playing golf that develops the person as a leader or that the leadership capability makes for a golfer is an unanswered question. Like any powerful training programme, leadership development needs a supporting, robust model of development. Unfortunately it's not much use telling someone to BE Jack Welch, or even to tell someone what it is that Jack Welch does - that doesn't make you a leader. Nor, can we simply seek to develop the 10 principles, 7 habits, 12 big things etc. of the best leaders in the world - leadership is personal - the first step in becoming a leader is to take charge of yourself and align your personal values to achieving what you want to achieve. If it were that simple then there wouldn't be a leadership issue anywhere in the world today.
Solid Foundations
Effective leadership development (indeed for adults to learn anything effectively) needs the learner to go through three learning processes according to Bloom -cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning. That we need to develop knowledge about leadership, associate a feeling or emotion with the desire to learn the knowledge and physically put that knowledge into practice.
Most business leaders have some knowledge about what constitutes 'good' leadership - though few practice it all the time. They may have seen 'good' leadership exemplified by others in their past or present. They may have read a book on leadership - such as the 7 Habits. Where these most often fail to become new behaviours is twofold - Firstly, most examples of 'good' leadership are often carried out 'naturally' by the person demonstrating them -we often refer to them as 'born leaders'. They are 'good' leaders, but they don't consciously know what it is that they do - and therefore they are unable to share with others what they should or could do. Most books, on the other hand, tend to focus on one of two aspects - how to be a leader - here is Mr Great CEO and this is what he did, you must do the same. or they distil 'best' behaviours and provide a checklist for you to do 'good' leadership.
In the former situation, the 'born leader' is unable (or unwilling) to give you the requisite knowledge to learn. In the latter (books), they often fail to make an emotional connection to implement the knowledge (other than you've bought the book therefore you must want to learn), or they provide simplistic implementation checklists, do this, then this then this at work. If the new 'habit' doesn't work first time, the book provides little or no guidance as to what you should do now.
What people need is a synthesis of the tools, techniques, attitudes and attributes of 'good' leadership within a structured model supported with templates that enable you to physically learn the behaviours. And one way of ensuring an emotional learning hook is by using the game of golf as a metaphor, and golf provides a means for you to put your behaviours into physical practice for yourself first - i.e. self-leadership, then you can use the templates at work. All practised within a safe and realistic environment that is fun.
Build on this foundation the safe and realistic learning environment of a business simulation on the golf course and you have leadership development that actually does what it says on the box.
About the Author
If you would like to know more about the GAINMORE(TM) Leadership Golf Challenge and how we can help you transform your leaders - whether your business issues are Leadership, Strategy, Business Planning, Teamwork, Change, Marketing, Operations, Finance - we will work with you to diagnose and design a solution that will address your ongoing needs. visit the website at www.celsim.com