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Attraction Marketing Will Bring Success By : Todd Ash Success is no longer a selling game , nor is it up to training, service, operational efficiencies or catchy mass advertising. Soul Purpose Corporate MAP: Executive Coaching By : Bob Yeager Following a ten-year study of personal and corporate businesses, a clear trend was discovered and written about in the book The Prosperity Paradigm. Business people appeared to align with one of five different modes of being Top 7 Things Great Leaders Do By : Annette Phillips Leaders inspire people to be like them. Leaders win followers by example. Leaders create teams and take responsibility. Leaders are not people who pass the buck. All great leaders possess these 7 traits. Inspire to Lead and Lead to Inspire By : Melissa Vokoun Inspiration comes at both ends of the leadership equation. Leaders are called to guide and lead from many different directions but there is always an element of emotion and inspiration. The call to act as a motivator, guide, teacher, and mentor is usually the first step in a process whereby an individual begins a journey to lead. Forming a Mentoring Circle By : Melissa Vokoun More and more businesses are seeing the value of establishing mentoring programs for their employees but finding it hard to keep up with demand. Matching each employee with a mentor, with all the demands and responsibilities connected with the commitment, is a daunting task. One solution is to form a circle of mentors who can act as a team and share the demands of mentoring. Can you Teach Leadership: Confronting Conventional Thought By : Melissa Vokoun Many people, including many colleges and universities, are firm in the belief that leadership is an inborn trait and cannot be taught as a field of study. This belief is rooted in the historical context of charismatic leaders who rose to leadership roles as a response to economic, religious, and political events All Chiefs and no Indians: Leadership in the Team Context By : Melissa Vokoun Every organization values and nurtures its leadership talent. We seek out leaders and they are essential to the growth and functioning of every organization. Is Your Management Style Limiting Your Success By : Ingrid Cliff A CEO's management style can make or break their business. Are you a Warm Fuzzy or a Detail Nazi? In this article learn 5 CEO Management styles that most limit business success. Don't Just Brand Your Business, Brand Yourself By : Barbara Gabogrecan You not only have to market your business, you also need to market yourself. After all, 'you are your business'. There are a number of ways you can do this and still feel comfortable. Discover How You Can Learn to Motivate Your Team Effectively By : Mohamed Abdul Rauf Bin Mohamed Yusope Motivating a team, fellow employees or subordinates can be an interesting experience. There are many methods and strategies that one can use to motivate others. Leadership Values and Loyalty By : Wolfgang Jaegel No matter it is religion, sports, or politics, a leader has an inseparable role in any arena. Hence, it is not an exception in the case of a business environment. A leader plays an inevitable role in the success of a business. A leader is simply a person who would help others in a working environment to enhance the work of other employees in an organization. Discover How Your Team Can Learn about Winning Mentality By : Mohamed Abdul Rauf Bin Mohamed Yusope As one learns about winning mentality, there can be many interesting lessons that one can learn from. Learning about it can provide excellent opportunity for individuals and team to develop in many different areas such as team building, positive thinking and overcoming adversity. Discover How You Can Learn the Significance of Focus for Your Team By : Mohamed Abdul Rauf Bin Mohamed Yusope There are many great lessons that one can learn from the importance of focus. One can learn that focus is important in many different aspects in life such as building a business, playing team and individual sports and building a strong relationship with others. Can Transformational Leadership Play A Part In Solving The Human Crisis? By : Richard Cox The human race is facing one of the most significant challenges in its entire history. Can Transformational leadership turn the tables and give us a chance of existing for another 1000 years? Do You Use These Transformational Leadership Behaviors By : Richard Cox Being part of leading the transformation of yourself, others and the world around you can be a daunting and confusing undertaking. Being a transformational leader means acting differently. Are you up for it? Where Transformational Leadership and Authenticity Meet By : Richard Cox Being a Transformational Leader can be challenging, and when you bring your authentic self forward, the journey becomes personalised, powerful, meaningful and more enjoyable. Others respond to the genuine nature that they see in you. Why Leaders Always Follow Their Instincts By : What separates a rich person from an ordinary person? The answer to that question is attitude. If one believes that the individual is capable of succeeding, it will happen. All it takes is some hard work and patience for everything to fall into place for that dream to become a reality. No One is Born a Leader By : There is a saying that goes, leaders are not born, they are made. This line is very true as it was in the olden times and is still applicable today. Before a King turns over the throne to the prince, the young man is trained in various subjects. Lead the Field to Guarantee your Success; Tips to become a good Leader By : Being a good leader is more than just being able to manage your employees or having better skills than your subordinates. Oftentimes leaders arenít very skillful or very smart, but they earn respect from their underlings and therefore earn their cooperation. Being a good leader entails responsibility and willingness, not just skill and intelligence. How to Easily Unlock Your Leadership Genius By : In psychology, a famous doctor said the mind is like an iceberg with only a tip visible above the water and the larger part is submerged. Studies show that humans only use 10% of the brain in doing the various tasks everyday. The other 90% is just kept in storage. How to Lead People By : The world today is running at such a fast-pace that those who cannot cope will surely be left behind. And the best way for people to cope is to strive to possess this most important ability that is to lead. Leadership, in common usage, generally refers to the capacity to lead others or simply put, the activity of leading. But in truth, many people who are in leadership positions struggle with understanding what it is really that makes a great leader. Several studies suggest that there are certain qualities that people tend to associate with leadership. These qualities define the leaders among us. Broadly, there are five key attributes and these are focus, authenticity, courage, empathy, and timing. And these five key characteristics of a leader apply across all settings. An effective leader keeps focused on the results he wish to achieve. He provides this "outcome focus" by always accentuating the mission, vision, values and goals of the group. He also builds the group's capacity to reach these strategic goals by emphasizing the need to be flexible, resourceful and innovative. Boost Office Morale with Negative Ions By : Thomas Fox Boost office morale and productivity / collaboration between colleagues and co-workers with negative ions. Negative ions are mood boosters. They eliminate allergens, dust-mites, and airborne pollution. As a result, personal and collaborative productivity increases. Action Is The Bridge Between Knowledge And Results By : Have you ever wondered why so many people are overweight when there are hundreds of diets and thousands of books on how to be healthy? Why so many people are unhappy in their relationships when there is more information available today on how to create loving, lasting relationships than ever before? Why so many people struggle with debt when there are known, timeless principles for financial prosperity? The truth of the matter is we all want to be healthier, in loving rela... For More Profit, Shovel Away the Sand Over Those Whose Heads Are Buried in It By : Donald Mitchell Be earnest in seeking out problems rather than denying them. The damage will be limited when you do. Defending Failed Directions Can Direct You Away from Profitable Progress By : Donald Mitchell Some become frozen into following failed policies because they don't want to admit they made a mistake. That pride can be costly when it leads to harmful inaction. Practice Kicking Yourself With Your Jerking Knee to Earn More Profit By : Donald Mitchell Learn to use your instincts to set you off in the right path when big obstacles appear. Management Theory And Building A Network Marketing Business By : Rick Hubbard Building a Network Marketing Business is not so much about managing people as it is about leading them. However,management theory can give you insight into being a better leader. Look for the Benefit in Setbacks to Gain the Most Profit By : Donald Mitchell Adverse circumstances provide opportunities to explore choices that would otherwise not be considered. Implement those opportunities and a setback can be a blessing in disguise. Open Your Eyes and Ears When Tough Times Arrive By : Donald Mitchell When problems arise, you need good ideas. But fear can keep people from offering solutions. Confidently Prepare for the Best When You Feel Helpless By : Donald Mitchell When you feel overwhelmed, the best path for creating a solution is to assume you will succeed. This article helps you create that mental process. How to Become an Effective Leader By : Steve Albright Explanation of key traits necessary to be a great and effective leader. When the Situation Looks Hopeless, Doubt Your Lack of Choice By : Donald Mitchell There's always an ethical way out to any irresistible trend problem for a business. Don't let a feeling of helplessness keep you from looking for it. Banish that Helpless Feeling When Trends Turn Negative By : Donald Mitchell Helplessness is a state of mind, fueled by emotion. You can take practical steps to banish that feeling and move toward valuable solutions. Act Fast When Customers and the Community Lose Faith in Your Offerings By : Donald Mitchell Helplessness is most dangerous when customers and others are concerned about whether they can trust you. To Profit from Powerful Trends Be Like a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof By : Donald Mitchell Be ready to jump away from mistakes concerning irresistible forces if you want to avoid costly setbacks. Profit from Irresistible Trends Rather than Sit Helpless By : Donald Mitchell When irresistible forces unexpectedly change a familiar environment to one in which normally-appropriate actions no longer work or even backfire, executives and workers can find themselves feeling overwhelmed by negative emotions and helpless to respond effectively. They should see adversity as an opportunity to reconsider thinking and develop a new sense of direction. Helplessness Can Turn a Big Company into One Big, Unhappy Company By : Donald Mitchell Remaining inert in response to strong, adverse trends is very harmful. Get help instead. How to Run a Leadership Activity By : Perry Burns This article discusses the three main options for training leaders and presents a plan for a leadership training event that anyone can run. The Difference Between Leadership and Management By : Marcia Granger When asked what the difference is between Leadership and Management, what do you say? Leadership, It's all About the Donut! By : Bill Loyd We all want to be better leaders, but most of us are unaware how our everyday actions tell people the exact opposite. What do your actions tell people about your leadership? Leadership - 5 Personality Traits That Define A Natural Born Leader By : Are leaders born or are they made ? There is evidence to prove that there is a Personality Profile that exists that is a Natural Born Leader. In Fact there are 5 specific Personality Traits that define a Natural Born Leader. A Natural Born Leader is someone who is willing to lead and has the social ability, self confidence, assertiveness and boldness to take on team responsibilities and Lead others. These profiles can be tested and proven. A Natural born leader will test e... All For One And One For All – Teambuilding Exercises By : There is no “I” in the word “teamwork.” Of course not. Teamwork involves a group of individuals coming together to share ideas and solve problems. In the corporate world, teamwork is a necessary - even crucial - part of everyday operations. A well oiled team working together like a flock of birds wheeling in the sky makes a company indispensable. What happens many times, though, is that corporations run low on finding creative and intuitive ways to help promote teamwork am... Leadership: Intelligent Delegation By : Delegation is essentially being able to let go – to let some of the power out of your hands and into the hands of someone else. This is a very hard thing to do for some people, but it is imperative for a leader to be able to delegate. It also creates leverage over what actually gets produced. Great leaders instinctively understand that they can accomplish much more when they empower others to assist. Implementing these ideas creates the discipline that can move mountains. ... Leadership: The Magic Of Feedback By : Many organizations are over managed. Key executives believe in the process of micro managing subordinates and overseeing all activities. What this business model does is create a lot of busy work but essentially is much less productive. A real leader understands the importance of feedback. While many shy away from feedback because it can show them things about themselves they don’t want to see, it is a very vital part of effective leadership. You can consider leadership... Leadership: Thriving On Feedback By : Have you ever wondered what makes a great leader? I contend that what makes a great leader is that they cherish and value the feedback they receive from the decisions they have made. All leaders know that the execution of a strategy will require monitoring the response they receive from their subordinates and the effect it has on the field. Feedback is the mirror that reflects your performance in no uncertain terms. It can be hard to take but its benefits far outweigh the ... Here Is A Quick Way For New Managers To Turn Around Negative Attitudes By : It doesn't matter where you work, at some point all organizations have employees who develop negative attitudes. The reasons can stem from stress, trauma, being overworked, being underpaid, personal problems at home, etc. Negativity is like a cancer, and can spread to even the most positive employees. So what can you do about it? 1. Be A Positive Leader: It all starts at the top. Employees attitudes and performances usually reflect management and leadership. And if l... Now You Can Really Motivate Your Staff To Go The Extra Mile By : Be an Effective Manager and Tell Them To have a successful career in any company you must know how to build relationships. And the most important relationship is between the manager and their direct reports. The strength of this relationship can have a direct result on the success of a team. Yes the relationship between the manager and their staff must be ‘open and ‘trustworthy, that's a given – but what else should you expect from your staff as their manager? During... Do You Want to Launch a Leadership Revolution? By : Rick Hubbard Help launch your own leadership revolution by looking at what the words really mean in the context of different personality types. Leadership: Learning From Past Leaders By : I enjoy reading biographies. By learning about the lives of leaders I am better able to understand the challenges I face today. History is full of stories about great leaders. What I have found to be most appealing about leaders that I have studied is that they believed in a cause and saw all obstacles as mere inconveniences that would eventually be overcome. While in the business world these people are today called CEO’s, in the past, these were the people who put their live... Developing Leadership Skills By : Some people appear as such natural leaders one wonders if they were born with the quality of leadership. It’s possible that this may be true. However, even for these “so-called” born leaders, the right environment is crucial to help them develop to their fullest potential. Observing and learning Leadership requires learning. Anyone can learn to become a leader. There are enough leadership training courses and seminars on offer. Leadership books are a great place to star... Muay Thai – History And The Basics By : Thailand’s national sport, Muay Thai or Thai Boxing is more popularly known as “The Art of the Eight Limbs”; with the ‘eight limbs’ referring to the elbows, hands, knees and shins, all of which are extensively used in this sport. An experienced exponent of Muay Thai would have mastered the art of executing strikes using these “eight limbs” as eight points of contact as opposed to the fist and feet or “four points” that are used in other martial arts forms or the fists; “two p... What If You Learned Leadership Wrong? By : Creating Change Is Easier Than Most Make It Leadership is about creating change. In order to beat the competition, your results tomorrow have to be better than they are today. But what if most people make creating change – leadership – harder than it has to be? Evidence abounds that people are sabotaging their own efforts at creating different results. Ernst and Young reported that 66% of corporate strategies are never executed. Have the standards for effective leadersh... Great Successful People - Interview With TV's Confidence Coach By : Peter has a background in psychology and is one of the UK's leading confidence coaches. He teaches at the Bristol Old Vic, as well as regularly featuring in television programmes such as Faking It and Would Like To Meet. Over the last ten years Peter has pioneered the application of theatre and drama to the challenges of corporate life. This work includes communication skills, motivation, creativity and innovation as well as personal impact coaching. This interview took pl... This Country Walks With Crutches By : Our society is getting shortchanged, and not just at the cash register. Convenient crutches interfere with development of critical thinking skills. Discover how to lead the way to a more potent, intelligent and resourceful organization. Firing Someone Is Not Easy, But Necessary By : It takes a great deal of self-discipline and integrity to fire a relative or close friend of your own, or your boss. I fired the son of a station manager and the stepdaughter of my own boss. This didn’t make us better friends, but it was necessary. The other workers respected my commitment to hiring and keeping the best workers, and not just those I felt obligated to. Firing someone is one of the most difficult tasks a manager has to do. The first time I fired someone I fe... Idea Champions By : There are many creative people yet few innovators. Creativity is thinking up new things, innovation is doing new things. Ideas remain useless unless somebody takes responsibility for converting it from words to action. Innovators have the knowledge, energy, daring, and lasting power to implement ideas. You can improve the innovative abilities of employees by letting them work in various areas. The more they know about the different aspects of your organization the better t... Why Most Companies Will Fail In 2008 By : Steven Vannoy And Craig Ross And 3 Steps to Make Sure Yours Isn’t One of Them Many people in your organization have resolutions for the New Year. As you read this, strategies are being executed to lose weight, get stronger, spend more time with family, and make more money. Your company has a resolution – the same one it has every year: increase profitability. And, no doubt strategies are under way to achieve that resolution. Sadly though, just like the majority of the New Year's resolutions held by... Selecting The Right Business Leadership Style By : Adrian Adams Are you currently an organizational leader? Perhaps you are simply aspiring to be a leader or have suddenly been thrust into a new leadership position. Six Sigma And Leadership Commitment By : Tony Jacowski Since the time the concept of Six Sigma came into being, much has been talked and debated about its usefulness. It's strategies are believed to bring out the best performance of any business organization. However, one of the major causes other than money for stopping a Six Sigma strategy dead in its track is the lack of substantial Six Sigma leadership commitment. Four Ways Leaders Need to Communicate By : Rick Hubbard Based upon theories of personality type, this article shares simple ways to that knowledge to increase communication effectiveness. Essential Qualities Of Leadership By : Webster says that leadership is “the position or function of a leader; the ability to lead; an act or instance of leading, guidance, direction.” Do you enjoy leading, guiding or directing? Do you look forward to making decisions that impact the lives of others? Would you rather give the responsibility for making choices to someone else? Most of us have been in a position of authority and all of us have met someone who possesses the qualities of an effective leader. Being a... Learning From the Best: A Study of the Greatest Business By : Nick Angeli Though you may be getting into small business for the rewards of working for yourself, providing for your family, and being in control of your own destiny, there are lessons that can be learned from multi billion dollar companies, even if your aspirations are much lower. Is Creating A Fail Proof Business Possible? By : Nick Angeli Over one third of all new business fail every year and most of them were doomed before they ever opened their doors. Before venturing into any business, of any type, you can help prevent the business from going belly-up from the start or determine you need a different type of business to deflect failure. Motivate Entry Level Employees in 2008 By : Many supervisors make New Year's resolutions to motivate their entry level employees. Practical and low cost tips to keep employees energized and productive. Key Challenges And Pitfalls Of Transformational Leadership By : Richard Cox As a transformational leader, you will face many challenges, some external, some internal. This article outlines two major areas to be aware of. 4 Steps To Activating Personal Transformational Leadership By : Richard Cox Being an effective leader is more than what you DO. It is also about how you are BEING. Are you using these steps to maximise your impact and results as a leader? The Leader Next Door Needs Written Goals By : Rick Hubbard Leaders need written goals that are clear and contain four simple elements. Do You Call Yourself A Leader? Do Your People Call You THEIR Leader? By : Wayne Messick Leaders, in order to be effective, must inspire confidence in order to have followers. Unless leaders have followers they aren't leading anybody are they? Effective leaders are those who inspire confidence in their followers because they consistently lead them and the organization in the right direction. Improve to the Nth Degree and Reap Exponential Rewards By : Donald Mitchell Some opportunity areas offer better rewards for breakthroughs. This article explains how to test various breakthrough choices to find the ones that will be the most rewarding. Be As Strategic As Bill Gates in Choosing Breakthrough Projects By : Donald Mitchell Leaders make a mistake when they let enthusiasm direct their breakthroughs. Pick the right strategic advantage instead and you can accomplish vastly more. This article describes how to take control over breakthrough project selection. Be Wise Like an Owl in Choosing Your Breakthrough Directions By : Donald Mitchell Many leaders set their targets for breakthroughs in the wrong areas. As a result, they miss the opportunity to make greater improvements from the same time, money, and effort. This article provides a plan for making better choices of breakthrough targets. Use a Schedule and Plan to Implement Your New Year's Resolution to Make Breakthroughs By : Donald Mitchell Most people have forgotten their new year's resolutions by March. But with a written-out schedule and plan, you can make a new year's resolution to create breakthroughs and accomplish that worthy task. This article contains such a schedule and plan to help you. Stop Stalling and Make Breakthroughs Instead by Banishing Habits That Slow Down Improvements By : Donald Mitchell Individuals and organizations cost themselves dearly by sticking with habits that brake their rate of improvement. Identify and eliminate those bad habits, and your improvements will turn into breakthroughs. Stoke the Fire in Your Belly to Make Continual Breakthroughs By : Donald Mitchell It's easy to assume that there is only limited potential because we haven't checked out the alternatives. With enthusiasm for breakthroughs, you soon find them in more places and more often. This article explains about the value of generating enthusiasm for breakthroughs. Experiential Learning By : Simon R Cooper Experiential Learning is not new but is incredibly under used as a method for training and developing staff. Consider for a moment how people tend to be trained at your place of work and what methods top the list? Training courses where people learn via presentations, group discussions, case studies and perhaps some role playing are likely to figure quite high on the list for most companies. But how much of this is actually taken back to the workplace and transferred into ... Combine Individual and Group Perfection to Make the Most Valuable Breakthroughs By : Donald Mitchell One person can only do so much. But groups often get in one another's way. This article shows how to use both individual excellence and organizational coordination to accomplish breakthroughs. How To Build The Bridge As You Walk On It By : Richard Cox There is no rulebook for exactly how to lead best. In an ever changing world you need to be able to find the the way that fits, as you boldly take the next step forward. Are Business Values Becoming More Spiritual By : Richard Cox As levels of change and uncertainty increase, there is a natural tendency to focus on values that are more spiritually orientated to enable businesses to navigate through uncertain times. Letting go of some control can be a good thing. Web Collaboration And Teamwork Equals Success By : Get those customers through real time web collaboration. With a palette of appropriate tools, you and your team can boost sales. You'll have satisfied customers who wont hesitate to recommend you to their friends. Web Collaboration, What Is It All About? If you attend a meeting, you expect the following: 1. a prepared agenda. 2. presentation of reports. 3. 100% attendance. 4. discussions. 5. proper documentation of the proceedings. You can expect the same from... What Leaders Need to Know about Theory Based Communication By : Rick Hubbard Theory based communication is vital for leaders to function efficiently. Using theories launches their communication into levels. Staff Development And Motivation By : Simon Cooper Of the top motivational forces in the workplace at least six can be either directly or indirectly attributed to staff development – job satisfaction, recognition, empowerment, personal development, promotional prospects and the relationship with one’s manager. Given this, it would be reasonable to expect that staff development was pretty high on the agenda for most managers – but is it? On the scale of importance versus urgency, it would be fair to say that staff developme... Leadership: The Step To Success By : William Drapcho Have you ever heard of a business where there is no leader, or in a more technical term, a boss? Perhaps it is quite inconceivable, since it is highly significant in every field that someone directs them toward their goal. For instance, if you want to employ a change in system within your business, a leader would have to stand out for you to get through the hard times. Leading an entire business does come easy, especially if the employees do not have faith with the person who... Breakthroughs Are Available If You Hold the Right Contest to Get Help from Outside Your Organization By : Donald Mitchell Productivity breakthroughs that can save lives, make large gains in performance, and cut costs with the same time, effort, and resources in for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Many people find it hard to locate such breakthroughs, but a new method of holding global contests seems to be solving that limitation. This article provides examples of such contests. Team Building – The Choice Of Champions By : Scott Lindsay Many workers tend to look at the job as simply a means of funding what they enjoy doing on the weekend (when they are no longer at work). Employment is relegated to the lowly position of simply paying bills while carving out just enough time to enjoy some time away from work on occasion. What if work could be more than that? What if work did not feel have to feel like work? For some people this scenario is true. A story has been told about a truck driver who appreciated... Team Building – Never Use A Sledgehammer To Guide The Ship By : Scott Lindsay When it comes to team building, what kind of leader are you? If you are the team leader in your company let me be the first to congratulate you. The role you possess is a difficult one to establish and even harder to perpetuate, but it can be an exceptionally gratifying position to hold. You are saddled with the task of managing staff, customers, vendors and business associates. These four groups are the short list of team building for business. So much depends on your ... The Benefits Of NLP Coaching By : A good NLP Coach will use a number of techniques on themselves and with their clients to get results fast. This article demonstrates the use of a great NLP coach and the techniques they use. Perceptual Positions an NLP Technique Perceptual positions is an NLP exercise geared to looking at a situation from multiple perspectives. Any given situation has several different perspectives and different information can be gain from each. The first is obviously your own, the sec... How You Can Learn Exemplary Leadership Lessons in 7 Ways By : Mohamed Abdul Rauf Bin Mohamed Yusope It has been a wonderful spectacle and pleasant experience watching and learning great leaders such as business leaders and other influential figures in this world. Get Those Telephone Headsets Working For You By : Are you always on the computer day and night? You’ll need those telephone headsets that’ll make taking and making calls on your computer convenient. No more irritating interruptions to get up and answer the phone or fish your mobile out from a deep handbag. Wear any of those telephone headsets and take the call anytime without having to move your butt. Easy to Love techie Toys It used to be that telephone operators used headsets with booms before this wonder hit the m... Business Coaching That Counts By : Barbara Gabogrecan Comparing mentors with business coaches and figuring out how to find the right coach for your needs. The 24-Day Leadership Lesson By : When people lose enthusiasm for a goal, a leader needs more than logic to avoid mutiny. Learn a lesson on how to keep people engaged with their work. Start enjoying the focus, perseverance, and enthusiasm that virtually guarantees goal attainment. The Secrets To Leadership Exposed By : James Yee Things You Thought You Knew About Leadership Secrets About Coaching By : James Yee The reason why Coaching is the Way to Go in Team Management. Leadership Skill: Distrust By : The very best way to repair a broken bond of trust is to not let it break in the first place. If that is no longer an option, you have a long road ahead of you, winning people back to your confidence. The only way I know is to keep slogging. Tell the truth. Keep your promises. Be reliable. Rebuild your account using regular small deposits. It may take years of faithful, timely payments. When you can’t be perfect on any of these scores (and who can?), acknowledge it. Explai... Team Effectiveness: Teams vs. Mobs By : In the rush to bestow the manifold blessings of teams upon our organizations, lots of groups get called teams that probably should not be. The resulting groups are too big, too lumpy, quite mismatched, and more than a little confused. I call these assemblages mobs. There are ways to differentiate real teams from fake teams or mobs: Teams Members recognize their interdependence and understand that both personal and team goals are best accomplished with mutual support. Ti... Leadership Skill: Hope By : A few months ago, the anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001 took place. That day marked the beginning of a sea change for the world. And change is hard. We’ve had a chance to reflect over the past six years, to become introspective on a number of fronts. It is easy to hate those who transgressed against us, and generalize our hatred to those whom we all too easily put in the same basket as our transgressors. We generalize because of a human trait called closur... Change Management: Four Attitudes Towards Change By : There are four attitudes toward change, created by leaders, with which an organization can be managed. They run the gamut from maintaining control (Old Age management) to distributing control (New Age management). Four points can be designated to demark four attitudes about control. 1) Pummel. Terror. “Do what I say or you will die.” The bad old days. This time-honored method seeks control at any cost and can be used to force either change or non-change. The worker is a sl... What Makes a Great Leader? By : James Stinson You may have heard that great leaders are made, not born. You may know a great leader when you see one, but have you really thought about what constitutes a great leader? Leadership Skill: Giving Feedback By : One of the hardest tasks of effective leaders is giving people feedback. “Giving people feedback” is really a neutral description for something decidedly un-neutral - telling people how they could be doing their job better. And because it is a loaded area, with a high potential for ticking people off and alienating them, just when you need them to be “on your side,” lots of leaders get confused and inept. Why is giving feedback hard for us? Probably because people think it... Change Management Strategies: Change And Personality By : Back on March 25, 2002, I wrote a newsletter on personalities. But I didn’t go far enough when it came to telling how these personalities effect the way change takes place. Personality type naturally plays a role in one’s ability to meet change head on. You remember the grid that I described showing Controllers, Promoters, Supporters, and Analyticals. The same grid, with a little change, tells a story about change potentials. Each type is perfectly capable of normal change... Leadership Skill: Leaving A Leadership Legacy By : Take a look at all the leaders who have left a positive legacy of organizational effectiveness, and what do you find. Breadth, depth, and talent. But what do they actually do? They develop themselves, they develop others, they develop big ideas, and they develop high performance cultures. They leave a legacy by leveraging their natural personality gifts to guide choices about acquiring skills and developing their organization’s culture. One in which people have clearly define...
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