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Loading...During my NFL career, I learned that leadership is a trait that all athletes have deep inside of them. Unfortunately, I found that most players do not know how to apply their leadership skills. It is the inability to apply leadership that sets the regular NFL players apart from the true greats such as LaDainian […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...You’ve always known that you are a team player, and you’ve probably always known that you are ready to take on the task of team leadership. However, what you might not know is that no matter how good you are at team leadership, and no matter what kind of a team player you are, personal […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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 highly significant in every field that one directs them towards their goal. For instance, if you want to employ a change in system within your business, a leader […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Blogging is a good hobby that supervisors and managers may want to take up. A different form of training and sharing of insights with regards to their specialization in their field, these are unsolicited inputs coming from the eyes of people who view and employ different forms of managing and leading subordinates for the overall […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I read Alphie Kohn’s book, Punished by Rewards, and was surprised by how much research there is out there that supports the concepts of Choice Theory and Empowered Leadership. I wasn’t surprised the research supported Choice Theory and Empowered Leadership, but I was surprised by how much research there actually is. Kohn reviews the research […]
(17 votes, average: 3.82 out of 5)Loading...There is leadership that talks and there is leadership that works and in the hall of fame of great black leaders over the decades, George Washington Carver was a leader that worked. His leadership was not the kind that tried to capture publicity or make great fame for himself. He didn’t try to start a […]
(2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)Loading...The great thing about the history of black America and the methods African American leadership has used to seek full equality and acceptance in this country is that there have been many roads to that goal. Yes, the great social, political, legal and even military movements that have been conducted to free African Americans from […]
(5 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)Loading...Does your company need a jumpstart? Is revenue low, morale declining, and your leadership tactics no longer making an impact? This may be the perfect time to look into leadership coaching. A good executive coaching program should do more than just set you up with a speaker reading over a PowerPoint presentation. Team up your […]
(12 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)Loading...I was flying home several months ago from a management-leadership program I was teaching for a company in Phoenix, and I struck up a conversation with the gentleman next to me on the plane. During the conversation, I asked him if he considered his boss to be a good manager, and he said, “Yes, he […]
(6 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)Loading...Dear Coach, Question: I own and run a company, but my leadership skills are sometimes lacking. My Senior Team refers to me as “Mr. Softy,” because I fail to discipline those who breach company policies. I am having particular difficulty with my VP of Sales. While he does bring in new accounts, he consistently enters […]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...“The winds and waves are always on the side of the best navigators.” — Edward Gibbon, English Historian Leaders look beyond the current situation – beyond what is to what could be. That’s why leadership is all about change. It’s why leadership is action, not a position. Growing our leadership is also a dynamic process. […]
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...At the age of 36, Michael Abrashoff was selected to become Commander of the USS Benfold – at the time, the most junior commanding officer in the Pacific Fleet. The immediate challenges that faced him were staggering: Exceptionally low morale with unacceptably high turnover. Few thought that this ship could improve. In many ways, the […]
(9 votes, average: 3.22 out of 5)Loading...Leadership, what is it and what is the difference between being a manager and being a leader?. Definitions of leadership, there is not a single definition that everyone agrees on. Manfred Kets de Vries, a professor at INSEAD, says that leadership is a set of characteristics, behaviour patterns, personality attributes that makes certain individuals more […]
(1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)Loading...A mark of a good leader is to provide constant motivation to his team to maintain an excellence and quality in results. A good leader is always looking for ways to improve production and standards. Here are six skills you can develop in working to attain quality in the team. 1. Observation This is an […]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...The demand for leadership talent greatly exceeds supply. If economic growth continues at a modest 2 percent for the next 15 years, there would be a need for one-third more senior leaders than there are today. Who will replace your retiring executives, and how will you keep your company’s leadership pipeline full? The demand for […]
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Many people assume that if someone is successful it is because they have good leadership skills. Some people assume that if a business is successful it is because it has good leaders. Leadership isn’t something that is particularly easy to pass on to other people. Sometimes a company is successful because a past leader was […]
(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)Loading...In our competitive world today, leadership skills are crucial to any successful business. What is leadership? Leadership is commonly used to refer to activities such as conducting, guiding, or directing people; initiating activity. However, leadership is also used to refer to someone who is a leader. How can leadership be applied in so many ways […]
(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...A great cloud of jargon, debate, and junk theory surrounds the idea of leadership, what it is, who does it, and how to do it well. But if you have just been promoted, and you’re responsible for a group for the first time, there are only a few things you really need to know about […]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...I have been fascinated over the years by the debate, research and discussion about leadership and management. Increasingly there seems to be a focus on the differences between leadership and management and it seems to me that this has developed in part because of deficits in one or the other. Most of us would like […]
(1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)Loading...We want to grab your attention to this article on leadership. It not only is interesting, but also has loads about leadership. In Part One, I described the Leadership Talk and how it is a much more effective leadership tool than presentations or speeches. I also described two fundamental premises that the Leadership Talk is […]