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The Successful Leader
Success needs to be measured not only by financial factors but also by the strength of the people who, when a leader moves on, are able to step into his/her shoes. The good leader achieves both.

Problems of Growth
When an organisation needs more money, the issue is a little more complex than sometimes is realised. In this article, Douglas Long suggests some leadership questions to accompany the management task of keeping the business viable.

The Brain of a Leader
The area of our brain that we allow to control our thoughts and actions is a key factor in determining whether or not we are enabling ourselves and our organisations to deal effectively with new technological advances and rapidly changing circumstances. In this article Doug Long explains the default areas of control used by most of us and gives pointers to using a more effective area of control.

Am I a Leader?
What makes a person a leader? What distinguishes a "good" leader from a "bad" leader? Can anyone become a leader or do you need particular characteristics and behaviours? This article considers these questions and makes some suggestions about who a "leader" really is.

Set Up For Success
In many organisations, success seems to be a random variable. Good leaders consciously try to create an environment in which both the organisation and its people can maximise their probability of being successful. This articcle provides some pointers in how to do this.

Effective Steps to Become a Leader
Becoming a leader is difficult in itself. Hence, becoming an effective leader is a hurdling task. Aside from meeting up that qualification, there are other factors that must be considered to achieve productive results when leading a team. An effective leader is one that is able to analyze the situation at hand. Good leaders know when their leadership is required and when it is not.

Effective Leadership = Positive Results
Regardless of the mission, the most sought after individual is the "Real Leader." One only has to look through recorded history to know this is correct because effective leadership has always yielded positive, sustainable results.

Solving the Problem or Finding the Guilty

We have developed into a blaming society. Mom blames the older siblings when problems arise in the household. Teacher finds someone to blame when things go out of control in the class room. Management and unions blame each other. Political parties use blame in the extreme, and it is disruptive, subordinating national goals under political aims. Which describes your leadership: Do you actively search for solutions to problems or do you spend your energy searching for the parties to blame?

What Constitutes An Effective Apology?
http://www.corevalues.com. There are effective leaders and some that are not so effective. One activity that differentiates the two is how well a leader is able to overcome conflict and dissappointment by saying two important words.

It starts in the Brain

Books such as the iconic “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936, Dale Carnegie) or “Think and Grow Rich” (1937, Napoleon Hill) are based on the premise that we need to get our minds right before anything else can happen the way we want it to. Look at the book shelves in any bookstore or library and today you will find a plethora of material providing the same basic message.There is no shortage of material explaining the “what”: there is, however, a shortage of material explaining “how” to enable one to shift the area of control in the brain so that everything else can follow.

Myopic Leaders?

Scanning the overall environment in which you are working to ascertain threats and opportunities. A mindset that is constantly trying to position the organisation in a place where it can deal with any threats and take advantage of any opportunities. A broad vision rather than leadership myopia. The constant need for a leader to be creating and sustaining an environment in which everyone can be successful.

Festina Lente - "urgent" or "important"?

In my mentoring I am surprised at how frequently I need to remind executives, managers and entrepreneurs of the need to concentrate on what is important. Concentrating on what is “urgent” invariably leads to crisis management with the result that the organisation degenerates into continual crisis. Because the “important” gets pushed back things get out of control. To change the metaphor, the bush fires rage uncontrolled because proper fire prevention was not done in a timely fashion.

Giving Feedback: do the old rules apply?

In today's world it is increasingly clear that respect has to be earned: it is not automatically given. In today's world it is increasingly clear that authority can quickly be lost if the person giving feedback makes a mistake - and the almost instant availability of information by phone or internet makes it almost certain that any such errors will be quickly discovered (and if the person giving feedback isn't respected or hasn't engaged with the people involved then the probability of someone actively seeking out errors is high.)

Down the Slope and Up Again: Seven Strategies to Lead Your Team through the Recession
Seven strategies to provide highly effective leadership at all levels of your organization, leadership that keeps employees engaged, focused, and productive during turbulent economic times.

Keys to Effective Leadership in Business

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. It is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. It is about making other leaders and not followers. This is not a new concept in the world of business and politics. Even John Quincy Adams stated, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

Catch Someone Doing Something Right
To attain our greatest success in leading and motivating, we must catch someone doing something right -- daily! This principle is not only true in the workplace, but also in the effective leadership and inspiration of a country... with heightened priority in economic crisis and election of new leadership.

Mentors - Don't Live with Regret

Do you remember who your mentors were? Do you currently have a mentor? Is there someone in your organization that you really respect, someone you look up to, someone who's actions and words have a real impact on how you live your life, perform your job and think about your future? If you do, whether you or they know it or not, they are mentoring you. Or, you may be mentoring them. Of course it is much more effective if it is done in the conscious state and both of you acknowledge your independent obligations to the process. Regardless, today mentoring is becoming more popular within organizations as an effective leadership tool for both the mentor and the recipient.

Empowering the Business Mind
What does it take to have an empowered mind? What can one do with negative self-talk which has no place in the competitive and demanding world of commerce and business? The answer lies in the changing or shifting of perspectives.

Decision-making vs. Decision-getting

“If you can’t get people committed to what you are trying to do, you can’t get it done.” Carly Fiorina, former HP CEO, October 12, 2009 More than ever before, these difficult economic times require efficient management and effective leadership. We believe that efficient management is all about “decision-making” while effective leadership requires the skill of “decision-getting”. Many expect our economy to turn around in the short term but what if it doesn’t? What if it gets worse over the next three + years. Do you and your organization have the skills to “get it done” in a worsening economy?

3 Dynamic Techniques To Boost Your Executive Leadership Power
How are your executive leadership skills, actions and beliefs adding value to, improving the quality in and nurturing the growth of your organization? Here are 3 powerful techniques you can employ to energize the value-oriented, quality-focused, growth-driven effectiveness of your executive leadership performances.

False Dichotomy! (If Anything, Backwards!)
False Dichotomy! (If Anything, Backwards!) I was asked to contribute "a paragraph" to a writer who was doing a magazine article on "management" "versus" "leadership." Herewith my contribution:

Third Generation Leadership = Increased Profit
Improved profitability can be obtained through a very simple – yet very comprehensive 9 step process that is capable of harnessing the energies of everyone in the organisation.

When you’re the Top Dog - Three keys to leading like a professional

Judging by the way we elect some of our political leaders, you'd think that the three most important qualities for leadership are: popularity, an outgoing personality, and loyalty to your supporters. Coincidentally, these just happen to be three characteristics that are often used to describe the average family dog. Hence, there's much more to effective leadership than what's often perceived on the surface.

Effective Leadership - Your Personal Performance Scorecard
In any leadership role in business, many other people are judging you on your effectiveness every day. If you run a small business, a home office or a solo consultancy, or have a virtual team of independents, the same standards apply to you too.

Five Benefits of Leadership Development Coaching
Where will your future organizational leadership come from? As the baby boomers retire and because of the widespread reduction in mid-level management over the past two decades, there will be a shortage of individuals prepared to assume the role of the leader. This article explores five benefits of leadership development coaching.

Leadership Development is Key to Organizational Success
Financial measures are not effective measures you can put on a leadership course. What you can do is measure changes in behavior and attitude in the company over a period of time. The effectiveness of leadership training can be measured through a rolling employee survey. Ask employees how their managers are behaving.

Integral Leadership - A Useful Model for Leadership Development
Managers and HR professionals concerned with developing leaders are inundated with leadership development theories, models, concepts and courses - Situational Leadership, Servant Leadership, and the Leadership Lessons of everyone from Attila the Hun to Jack Welch, to name but a few.

Employee Turnover in the IT Industry
Even as companies institute hiring freezes or are downsizing, they would do well to remember that it is more cost effective in the long run to hold on to employees with key skills.

Effective Leadership – the key to staff retention

The current economic climate dictates that it is now an employers market, however what will happen when the economic crisis we currently find ourselves in subsides? Are you confident that your talented employees will remain with your organisation? Or do you believe you need to act now to ensure your talent is retained in the future? Over the next few weeks we will look at strategies for ensuring your key talent are engaged, motivated and ultimately committed to your organisation and its objectives, regardless of how green the grass may appear on the other side. This week we will look at the important role leaders play in talent retention...

10 Commandments of Leadership-Not Breeding Sheep

Sheep. Need constant attention. Need to be told and shown every step along the way. Not thinking. Not deciding. Not innovating. Just following and doing what they are told. Nothing more and nothing less. Bah. Sheep in the Workplace Even if you have never left the comfortable confines of the big city, you have been exposed to sheep at work. They are the people that require constant direction, sometimes the same direction, over and over again. They cannot solve problems, cannot think creatively, cannot deal with change and cannot make decisions. There will never be independent risk taking. They develop a co-dependence on leaders to guide them on a constant and continuous basis. They require a great deal of time to get even simple things accomplished. There is no correlation betwe

Don't Let Your Group Drink Dirty Water-Be a Leader
There is an Akamba, Kenya, proverb that says, "Syaasya ndongoi, inyusaa muuluu." This wise saying means when a herd of cattle lacks a leader, it ends up drinking dirty water. This saying is based on an observation in which the last herd to get to the water source finds the water has been made dirty by the ones that arrived before it.

Good Leaders Must Be Good Followers
Modeling good behavior is the best leadership tool you own. Are you modeling behavior you want others to emulate when they follow you?

Do You Have the Power
Effective leaders need more than the authority that comes with a management position. It requires the power granted by those around you. Too often unknowing people confuse leadership with management and leadership development with management training. The success of your organization depends on your understanding of the distinction.

Creating a Leadership Development Agenda That Works

Companies invest heavily to develop leadership talent necessary to grow the organization. Most of this investment provides little return. After using conventional approaches for 15 years as a psychologist, human resources professional and change agent and finding little benefit, the author developed a new set of guidelines to develop leadership talent. This article provides five principles to grow talent.

Succession Leadership is the Success Lynch Pin for Individuals, Businesses and Organizations
What makes some individuals to organizations more successful and sustainable than others? The answer simply is great and effective leadership. Much is written about leadership. Bad leadership spells disaster!

7 Skills Needed For Effective Leadership Team Development
This article is a summary of leadership skills developed by the TIGERS-Den leadership community. In a nutshell, the leaders identified 7 positive characteristics that separate ho-hum managers from team leader rock stars.

Hiring New Team Members
Quick hiring, convenient hiring or insider hiring rarely works. There is reverse proportion between the timing of the hire and the quality of the hire. The quicker the hiring decision, the more likely the decision will be a poor decision. The more convenient the candidate (i.e. Bob in accountings’ sister in law) the more likely it will haunt you for a long period of time.

The Power of Tone Setting

When used in the leadership role, simple human interactions can have extraordinary impact and power in managing morale and productivity. Quite simply, leaders with good tone setting skills will achieve much greater results, improve the loyalty of their team members, work through difficulties easier, create an environment with less stress and deliver greater levels of service to their end customers.

One more time how do we motivate people?

How to motivate people? The hoary old chestnut that never seems to be resolved and on which is written so much I am wary of contributing to the confusions and misinformation. It is not really possible to ‘motivate’ someone rather you offer them reasons why they could or should motivate themselves. It does sound a little obvious since each person has select and very exclusive to their own mind and feelings. The term ‘motivation’ in business often means something like: Get people performing better than they are now. That may or may not involve ‘motivation’, but it is surprising the discussions that occur around the issue of ‘how to get them going?’

Protect Your Attitude
An important key to high productivity and effective leadership, not to mention sales and marketing success, is to have and maintain a positive attitude. Nothing else will have a greater effect on you than your attitude. Remember the saying, “Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude”? It’s true.

The Value of Effective Leadership

An organization is most effective when leadership provides teaching, mentoring, coaching and motivation to empower every individual to perform most effectively. You can apply the techniques and traits of the Sensei to increase your effectiveness as a leader at work, home and in the community. The fundamental reason that a Sensei enjoys the loyalty and dedication of his students can be found in the unique relationship of teacher to student.

Leadership for Growth
How many companies are letting their business stagnate through a proliferation of poor management practices and a lack of effective leadership at multiple levels? Possibly a sensitive and controversial question, however one that may still warrant some answers.

High Performance Sales Leadership
In sales, whether to lead or not to lead that is the question (all apologies to Shakespeare here). Or to put it another way, whether to lead or to manage in order to drive the required business results. There is no simple right answer to this apparently simple question.

Effective Leadership
This article covers basic leadership principles that can be applied on a daily basis to help us become better leaders and not so much managers.

Leadership Communication
These days, effective leadership, communication skills are essential for leaders in all areas. We know how communication skills can get the lead in this article.

Five Steps to Lead A Team Effectively
Follow these five steps and you will be a more effective leader and build successful team.

Leadership Transformation

It is imperative that leaders go through a personal transformation process in order to bring about effective change within an organization. People, productivity, and profitability are the tools that make an organization successful. Through personal transformation, you will understand that you can be wounded and still learn from your mistakes. You will learn how to forgive yourself and others. You will learn to deal with reality while being comfortable with changes. Most importantly, you will create and motivate movement, as well as positive changes not only in yourself, but also in the people around you, and in your environment.

Is your leadership effective?
In many ways, good leadership is hard to define. It can't be directly measured. In fact often the measure of leadership is qualitative rather than quantitative - although quantitative results always follow. So, the questions remains, how can you tell if your leadership skills are effective?

Tips for Leadership

Today ethical leadership is more important than ever. The world is more transparent and connected than it has ever been. The actions and philosophies of organisations are scrutinised by the media and the general public as never before. This coincides with massively increased awareness and interest of corporate responsibility and related concepts, such as Fair Trade, sustainability, social and community responsibility. The modern leader needs to understand and aspire to leading people and achieving greatness in all these areas.

Making Leadership Actionable: What We Are Learning and How We Can Use It

Much of the popular and academic literature on leadership has led to advice about what is required for effective leadership. This advice is usually flawed in that it does not provide guidance for how to learn to effectively apply the advice or because the advice is based on the practices of an individual in a specific context, a context that may or may not apply to the learner’s situation. An approach to leadership development based on seeing leadership as an emergent phenomenon, rather than just something that an individual does, is suggested.

UNDERSTANDING YOUR ROLE AS LEADER
The purpose of this article is to help you develop an awareness of your role as a leader. Unlike the typical role of a manager, leaders are expected to have a greater impact. Knowing how effective leaders think and act can help you the manager communicate more effectively with the key leaders in your organization and also communicate the desires of the leader to those who report to you.

Why Invest In Leadership Development

There is a growing leadership crisis in America. Large numbers of "baby boomer's" are reaching retirement age. As a country we decimated mid-level management for the past several decades. We did not spend the time, money and effort to groom the next generation of leaders. Many organizations will now have to play catchup if they are going to have the leadership to remain competitive. Leadership or executive coaching is a viable path forward.

Values The Key to Effective Ethical Leadership
The lack of ethical leadership is a pervading factor in today’s society. Although interest in ethical leadership has increased dramatically, ethics in the global context of leadership has not been a subject of great discourse. Examining the essential role of values and ethics in the quest for effective leadership is the subject of this article.

Leadership Its All About People

This brief overview of leadership is designed to paint an overall picture of what it is going to take for leaders to advance the performance of an organization from good to great. You will no doubt use much of what is provided in this article plus add your specific talents and strengths to the leadership equation. This is how it should be as there is not a magic formula for leadership in today’s complex environment. The key is to absorb all that is presented in this article and other books on leadership and connect with what works best for you in the context of your organizations’ strategy of developing great leadership capabilities.

Love and leadership the love that dare not speak its name
It’s commonly said of leadership, ‘They don’t need to like you. They do need to respect you.’ But, what about the other way around? Do leaders need to like the people they lead? One school of thought goes further and says if you don’t love the people you lead, you’ll never be a great leader. In this short article, leadership author Phil Dourado explains

Stand up to the monsters that are holding back your success
Did you know that there are three monsters lurking about in the heart of our shadows and lonely corners of our lives and businesses? Read on to find out what these monsters are and how you can stop them in their tracks.

10 Things To Improve Decision Making

Most of us don’t have the time to work through some complicated decision-making model and, even if we did have the time, the evidence shows that there is still no guarantee that we will make a “good” decision every (or even most of) the time. In fact there is data that shows only about 15% of organisations have the ability to make and implement important decisions effectively. This article suggests 10 things that management can introduce in order to improve decision making.

Coaching Training Part 1: Why You Can't Manage Your Way to Growth
Throughout history, leadership approaches have reflected the advancement of different industries as well as societal changes. Simply stated, as the world changes, so does the way in which we must manage, lead and coach people. This is the first of a three part series.

3 Steps to Being a More Effective Boss!

One of the loneliest places in the world is at the top of an organisation. No matter where you are or with whom you are interacting, there is a sense in which you are seen as the epitome of your organisation. This places a pressure upon you that is different from any other. Sometimes this pressure has the effect of reducing your effectiveness and, in the worst case, can lead to poor management and leadership practices. This article considers the issue of "top management loneliness" and suggests a solution that is readily available no matter where you may be.

Six Principles of Effective Leadership Training for Entrepreneurs

Do you want to become a good business leader? Do you have what it takes to raise business leaders? Do you want to be a leadership coach? Then read on because this article is for you. There’s more to becoming a successful entrepreneur than merely good developing business ideas, finding the right business team, raising capital and building a business. To build a successful business, you have to be a leader and being a leader implies you must be a coach. Leadership coaching therefore; is the art and science of helping individuals to develop the necessary traits and skills required to become a good leader. There are six principles for excellent leadership coaching and you should know what these principles are; in order to become successful in business. The six principles are as follows:

How to Avoid Business Failure
Business failure is still very high. Why do you think businesses fail? Read to see if you have the answer.

The Art of Building a Successful Team
In order for your career to grow, you must demonstrate effective leadership skills. Organizations are finally beginning to realize that soft skills are just as important as technical skills and therefore, are placing more emphasis on developing and rewarding effective leaders. One important skill for leaders to master is the ability to recruit high-potential talent into the organization.

Demonstrating Effective Leadership By Learning How To Walk The Talk One Step At A Time

In businesses and organizations today we hear a repeated complaint that leaders say they want change and continuous improvement, but their actions speak louder than their words. If a leader wants to create real changes in a company’s values, culture and/or employee behavior, they must commit to learn how to “walk the talk.” Here are some tips from your strategic thinking business coach to illustrate how to “Walk The Talk” one step at a time.

The Critical Importance of Business Ethics For Effective Leadership, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach

How important are business ethics to being an effective leader? According to the American Management Association, it is an important characteristic of effective leaders today. In a survey of 462 executives who were asked, “What characteristics are needed to be an effective leader today?” 56% ranked ethical behavior as an important characteristic, followed by sound judgment (51%) and being adaptable/flexible (47%). However, with all due respect to the AMA survey, I strongly believe it is much more than “important,” it is a “critical, essential and non-negotiable” characteristic of an effective leader. Strong business ethics is a pillar of my strategic planning and strategic thinking business coaching efforts and clients are encouraged to develop core values and guiding principles and publish them.

The best franchise systems all have effective leadership.
The single most important factor in the long term success of the best franchise systems is effective leadership. When you look at the cause of every significant achievement or problem there is always one driving force; effective leadership or lack thereof.

Great Leadership Is Admitting What You Do Not Know and Thus Avoid Becoming A Victim
Great leadership or effective leadership is the ability to admit what you do not know. Justification and rationalization are not characteristics of great leadership. These individuals understand that life must be challenged and more importantly so must their own performance as they lead themselves and others forward.

What does leadership mean today?
THis article outlines the shift that has taken place in leadership theory and practice today. It describes the six new leadership challenges: vision, empowerment, inspiration,challenge, collaboration, recognition and modelling. It describes effective personal leadership and concludes with a seven step process and work sheet for leadership development.

Disciplines of Success Regardless of Economic Trends
Self-leadership combined with leadership is critical in combining work and pleasure. These are skills that can be learned. Champions keep on learning. They see the opportunities through transitions. Effective leaders are self-aware of the principles and characteristics of influential leadership. They know how to be fully engaged in their surroundings and are proactive in their goals and success.

How to be a Real Leader Bottom of Form
If leadership is so important, why are effective business leaders so rare? Kevin Cashman, a Minneapolis-based leadership coach, thinks that he has the answer: “Too many people separate the act of leadership from the leader. They see leadership as something that they do - rather than as an expression of who they are.”

Leadership Development
Leadership, what is the difference between a manager and being a leader is that?. Definitions of leadership, there is no one definition that everyone agrees on. Manfred kets de Vries, INSEAD a professor, says the leadership of a "set of characteristics, behavior patterns, personality" qualities that makes some individuals more effective in achieving a set goal or objective is.

Successful ways of leadership & business development
Leadership is all about influencing and motivating people to work towards a goal. Effective leadership is very important for the success of a business.

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