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Practical Leadership – Clear Direction
By Neil Miller · 15 years ago
One of the key tasks of a leader is to provide clear direction for the path to be followed. Otherwise followers have to guess where they need to contribute their time and effort.
For direction ...
Good Boss, Bad Times - Improving Leadership Effectiveness
By David Kent · 15 years ago
Few industries have been spared from these tough economic times. Executives around the world are facing difficult decisions everyday involving lay-offs, pay cuts and managing a workforce that is constantly under threat. A McKinsey Quarterly ...
Being a Project Leader
By Tim Millett · 15 years ago
The concept of control is often misunderstood, because for many people the word conjures up images of stern discipline and barked orders. But the fact is a project leader has a role which requires the ...
What Makes A Good Leader: 5 Vital Traits A Good Leader Must Possess
By Michael Lee · 15 years ago
There might be a lot of leaders in your area, but there are only a few who know exactly what makes a good leader. As a leader, you’re expected to bring you and your team ...
The Job Descriptions Of A Manager
By Amy Twain · 15 years ago
The skill in being able to manage could be a profitable secondary asset for any qualified employee or staff with any specific training in a certain area. Actually, the duties and responsibilities of the senior ...
Leadership and Counselling DO Mix!
By Tim Millett · 15 years ago
Despite what you may believe or have been taught in the past, leadership and counselling do mix. This is not to say a leader must be a psychologist with medical diplomas hanging on the wall ...
Week One of Marine Recruit Boot Camp at Parris Island
By M.a. Coates · 15 years ago
Week one of Basic Marine Corp Training can be quite a shock upon arrival at Parris Island.
This article pertains mainly to preparing for Marine Corps basic training at Marine Boot Camp, but the lessons ...
7 Ways to Empower Your Communication
By Swanie Brandt · 15 years ago
Most of us spend a good part of our day communicating with people. We may be talking to our kids, spouse or co-workers, or we may be talking to a classroom full of not-so-eager students. ...
Looking to the West: A Leader's Role
By Jeff Evans · 15 years ago
Continuing in our series on Understanding Organization, we started our walk around the organization wheel in the north, the place of organization wisdom. We moved to the east, the place of how the organization works. ...
Looking to the North: A Leader’s Role
By Jeff Evans · 15 years ago
Continuing in our series on Understanding Organization, we will start our walk around the organization wheel in the north. In using the Organizational Wheel, we start our journey in the north. Again, the Organization Wheel ...
Leading into 2010
By Jeff Evans · 15 years ago
We stand facing into new opportunity
2009 has nearly reached its completion. The Winter Solstice has just passed, and each day is successively longer for the next 6 months. The steady lengthening of the day ...
Key Practices for Living out Change
By Jeff Evans · 15 years ago
What is your practice?
A quote I have often seen attributed to Gandhi is "you must be the change you wish to see in the world." Regardless of its origin, it is a fundamental truth ...
Five Common Myths about Change
By Jeff Evans · 15 years ago
Here are some things that I have learned about change.
They may sound simplistic, but these myths are foundations to how I approach change in organizations. The longer I practice, the more attention I pay ...
Building Sustainability in Change
By Jeff Evans · 15 years ago
Have you ever seen a change vaporize?
You've probably seen it before, a change occurs, and then slowly (or even quickly) things revert back to old ways? Seems like the change just vaporized, even though ...
Leadership – Inspiring the Team to Achieve Goals
By Kate Tammemagi · 15 years ago
In Business, Leadership is about inspiring followers to achieve Team or Organizational goals. You may be a Team Leader or Manager in a Business, and you may have built the respect of your Team. Your ...
7 Steps To Becoming a Personal People Magnet
By Jim Desantis · 15 years ago
A magnetic personality, whether male or female, provides a public view of your inner confidence or self esteem. It reflects your command of yourself as well as the power of your self-discipline. But, how do ...
How To Keep Your Boss Happy
By Amy Twain · 15 years ago
If your boss is consistently giving you dirty looks, then you might have a problem and you have to solve it first so that you won’t get fired. The first task to consider is how ...
Leadership 101
By Daniel M. Murphy · 15 years ago
What does a leader look like, sound like and do? There is no one correct mold. Great leaders come in all shapes, sizes, voices and styles. However, great leaders share a common outcome – they ...
Leadership Training Conferences
By Angela Martin · 15 years ago
Leadership is the ability to motivate people to achieve their goals. Leadership is one of the most striking features that an individual must possess in an organization, because it is the leader who can translate ...
Leadership Development Training – Is it Necessary?
By Luna Mohanty · 15 years ago
Is it necessary to have leadership development training? To answer that, it is important to ask a different question first. The all-important question is, do leaders need to be developed? Many organizations believe that a ...