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Articles tagged "leadership":
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Four Things You Can Do To Minimize Conflict In The Workplace
Understand these four insights into conflict and you may not need to feel that conflict is actually spelled disaster!
Whether you are a team of one or hundreds of thousands, your team has a certain shape all its own. Do you have control over how it grows? The answer is yes. However, the key to a successful team lies not in the control, but in the willingness to let the team take on its own shape without your strict direction.
Keeping Your Eyes On The Prize
Learn the key to finishing strategic plans for 2008 strong while also preparing strategic plans for 2009. You can do both at the same time if you keep your eye on the prize!
Fast Progress On Several Fronts At Once In Ways That Serve Customers
Take care of your employees and they will take care of your customers. This article looks at how AES and Southwest Airlines have applied this principle.
The War Is Not To Find Talent; It's To Use The Talent You Have Already!
The search for talent is ongoing. Individuals seek to develop their talents, companies seek to identify talent and retain it, succession planning requires it, politicians plan for it, and the world wants to find it. But how do we find it? And how do we develop it?
Insights On Successfully Leading Corporate Initiatives
Corporations often present line managers the challenge of achieving assigned goals on corporate initiatives. In many cases the primary difficulty is that it is hard to see how the initiative relates to the day-to-day-activities of the plant or division or its specific strategic goals in production or sales, etc. Learn how to incorporate the corporate initiatives into daily work and use them to enhance achievement of goals in the strategic plan.
Are You Worried About Throwing Away Money On Executive Coaching?
We have found that the value of executive coaching is exponentially increased when sponsored by the employer, aligned with the employer's goals, and involving the employer at key points in the leader's growth. For employers, executive coaching is a savvy investment.
Are We Undervaluing Management Skills?
There is much emphasis these days on leadership skills. Almost every organisation talks of the need to develop these; and almost every manager or aspiring manager is encouraged to develop them. But in the race to invest often huge sums of money and time into leadership development programmes, have we forgotten
Is Business Acumen A Substitute For Leadership?
If the top of an organisation is full of people with business or technical skills but little grasp of how to manage people, problems can quickly ensue. Because running a business is not just about the balance sheet.
8 Tips On How To Read Body Language
Our bodies communicate what we're feeling loudly and clearly. If you get angry in a conversation, your brain takes a minute or so to figure out how to respond without losing your temper. While your brain is doing its thing, your body is flashing signs that you are fuming. Here are eight tips for reading body language, so you can understand what's not being said.
Why Use Deep Insight For The Challenges You Face?
Gordon Bethune, the former Chairman and CEO of Continental Airlines used to say, "If you have a buger on your nose and your team says, boss you look great today, because they are too afraid to tell you the truth, then you have a real problem on your hands."
Eight Questions That Deliver Valuable Cost Cuts
New perspectives can keep you focused on the most highly productive areas of cost reduction.
Avoid Hurting Sales By Ill-Chosen Cost Cuts
Don't assume that cost reductions will leave sales unaffected: Take the time to consider what will probably happen before making cost cuts.
In Implementing Cost Reducitons, Look At Total Cash Flow Costs Rather Than Accounting Costs
If you are a privately held company, look to reduce overall cash costs when considering alternative cost reductions, rather than the impact of reported earnings.
Goal Setting Advantage - Legend Or Logic? Part 1 Of 4
For far too long, consultants, trainers, guru's and leaders have been misleading us about goal setting. We keep hearing the same myth that people with written goals achieve greater success in life. I fell foul of this story myself - after all, it cam from the pages of a famous author and I've seen it repeated again and again. Time to separate myth from reality.
Don't Get Robbed By Your Employer!
We work and we get compensated, but there is much more than salaries and wages. What about travel expenses, 401K co-pays, cell phone subcidies, etc. When your employer folds, guess who is left with the bills?
Use Outsourcing To Improve Your Business Model
Outsourcing can narrow your focus, make you more effective, and lower your costs.
Avoid Conflicts Of Interest And Bad Ideas To Gain Successful Cost Reductions
Cost reductions often don't work. Why? Conflicts of interest get in the way, as do incorrect ideas about how to reduce costs.
Employees Need To Know Where They Fit In
A key communication gap in most professional service firms involves what is called "line of sight." That phrase refers to how well an employee understands the entire business process and her connection to that process. This gap becomes evident when cuts have to be made.
Your company story tells about your company, what you do for whom and why, with something about your people thrown in. It's more than just your vision and mission. It conveys your essence for being. It connects with people on an emotional level.