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How we can learn Master Sales lessons
Like many people in Australia, my family and employees have been captivated by MasterChef Australia. What I love about MasterChef is that it can be seen as a metaphor for expressing our talents and being the best we can be. Given my interest in everything to do with sales, personal mastery and performance, I particularly love the parallel I have been able to draw about what it takes to be an elite master chef and an elite sales person and elite sales leader by the observation I have made in MasterChef.
Personal Guiding Principles
Without values and character strength, the challenges of life will replace short-term success with failure.

Four Steps to Help Improve and Spotlight Your Value
One of the biggest mistakes many women leaders make is avoiding the spotlight. Time after time, our women clients tell us stories of being "lost in the shuffle" when it comes time for promotions and opportunities. Most of the time, it's not because they lack the skills or the ambition to rise up in the ranks, but because they're not visible within their organizations...
Nuturing Employee Engagement in Flat Organizations
Established organizations continue to flatten the organizational pyramid through eliminating managerial layers and upping the subordinate/superior ratio from the classic 6:1 to 12:1 and higher. Newer companies stay flat from the get-go. One consequence is that a traditional workplace acknowledgement - the promotion - is becoming rarer as opportunities for internal upward mobility are reduced.
Is Your Leadership Characteristics Limiting Your Business Success?
I have worked with stacks of businesses over the years. Often I am asked to name the most important indicator of whether or not a business will succeed or fail – my answer is always “Look at the CEO”. CEO’s and their personal leadership characteristics can make or break a business. A good CEO sets clear direction and boundaries, provides assistance and support to the team and then gets out of the way to let them accomplish what needs to be done. They help unblock roads if needed and provide guideposts along the way – but their management style is such that they do it in a way that creates independence of action rather than dependence.

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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?
Effective Personal Leadership
When we combine personal competency in all areas of leadership skills with an organizational culture which supports people, their development, and their success, we end up with exceptional leadership which, in turn, inspires the best effort in others.
Vision, Innovation, and Teamwork
Vision, innovation, and teamwork are the components for success that this president has chosen for creating a high-performance organization.
Culture - It's Not Just for Anthropologists Anymore
This article explores the elements that need to be in place to constitute a true corporate "culture" and laments the possible overuse of the term culture in business.

Inspired Leadership at All Levels
In a traditional organization, followers look to, and expect, their leaders to set direction, lead change and in general have all the answers on how to run the organization. However, in many of our organizational tasks, the line between leader and follower is a blur because of the complexity of situations and the need for quick decisions.
Eight Critical Leadership Questions
In a traditional organization, followers look to, and expect, their leaders to set direction, lead change and in general have all the answers on how to run the organization. However, in many of our organizational tasks, the line between leader and follower is a blur because of the complexity of situations and the need for quick decisions.

Organizational Cultural Values to Consider
Every organization has a culture, the way things get done, how people react and how people are treated. Most organizations do not spend time truly creating a desired culture, but rather, leave its creation to chance. Oh there may be statements on the wall that were created at a one day off-site meeting, but sadly they remain just that...statements. This article provides insight into "values" which can be used to begin the process of truly creating the culture which will best serve your organization.

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Effective Personal Leadership
When we combine personal competency in all areas of leadership skills with an organizational culture which supports people, their development, and their success, we end up with exceptional leadership which, in turn, inspires the best effort in others.
10 Commandments of Leadership-Communication
Communication is a tricky combination of art and science. In it’s basic form, communication is the flow of information between humans. The last part about being a human phenomenon is important to remember. Communication is a human connectivity that is critical to the leadership role because it enjoins people in a unique and personal way to the tasks and mission of an organization. It also relates directly to the personal nature of leadership and the connection point of why people will follow a leader. To have people to want to follow, the leader must communicate with them.
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.
Can I also become a Leader?
You might be reading all over the internet the information on ‘Leadership’ and such skill how it helps to have your own ‘small home businesses’ My personal belief is that we all are born with some or the other leadership skills. All that we need is to fine tune those traits and also acquire few more to be an effective leader. Leaders Think & Act differently!
How thought leadership can turbo charge your brand
Thought leadership is an extremely powerful leadership tool for a company or one's own personal branding. But what does it require to become a thought leader?
Building A Business Dream Team
Building a business dream team will not happen simply because the CEO wishes it or because you have been provided some well-crafted concepts. The building of your dream team will become a reality when each individual in a leadership position decides to embrace a new style of leadership and become a “coaching leader.” The formation of your organizations dream team will come about as a result of your demonstrated commitment to take a stand on the effectiveness and excellence of your personal leadership and the leadership of others.

Third Generation Leadership and Accountability
The bottom line in any organisation is performance. And performance demands accountability. The issue as we move from First Generation Leadership or Second Generation Leadership approaches to a Third Generation Leadership approach is not one of being accountable versus being unaccountable. This article looks at how it is possible to maintain personal accountability in a Third Generation Leadership organisation
Business Leadership Skills
Not that a business is born with leadership skills. It is true that certain leadership traits that quite a few others seem to them. However, there are others that can be developed. There are many leadership programs that teach us different leadership style will also help us realize our business leadership skills and have some improving. However, short of the best leadership training effort comes from rising above the rest and put personal gain before the collective interests.
Is "leadership" dead?
"Leadership" now seems to be a catch-all term (a bit like "communication"). That being the case, has the time now come when we should be considering whether the term "leadership" has lost its impact and whether we need to radically rethink the whole concept by moving out of all the traditional concepts like "servant leadership", "situational leadership", “contingency leadership”, “leadership habits” etc that are based on attitudes and behaviours?
The Two Facets of Leadership
Why do we follow others? The word leadership logically implies followship. Someone must decide to follow the leader for some reason. But why do we follow another person? When you boil down the complexities of human behavior, the primary reasons we follow someone else are very basic. First, we see a personal benefit to the behavior or actions of the other individual. We see the methodology they utilize as better than our current method or we see an easier way to accomplish a given task. Second, the leader actually influences our thinking to personal see value where it did not exist in the past. This cognitive influence is the more complex of the two pillars of leadership.
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