Management

Business leaders around the world have become increasingly aware of the fact that an effective leadership style is more important than ever in the workplace. The wrong leadership style can lead to a lot of problems, including: Low motivation Poor productivity Team disharmony High employee turnover It’s critical that both […]

As teams move from being supervised or facilitated during their development to a more self-managed work team, members will take more responsibility for their different team roles. As part of this process, members will rotate their roles in order for everyone to participate in the self-leadership process. During the rotation […]

“In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people… they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.” Ken Blanchard Effective leaders must model proper value conduct. Conflicts arise when individuals have differing values in organizations. In my organization, I’ve seen the […]

Uses: Once the team knows who the key stakeholders are, the difficult task of figuring out a strategy to win their support begins. This simple planning tool can help the team assess the issues and concerns of each stakeholder who must be moved to a higher level of support for […]

We all know deep down that we have to work on ourselves to be the person that others will gladly follow. But truly what does it mean to be a leader? Lots of things but it can best be summed up like this: Leader has TRUE value to offer – […]

How many times have you awakened in the morning and did not want to go to work? But you went in anyway, not because you wanted to or had to, but because your commitment to the organizational goal and the leadership was important. That is the effect of transformational leadership, […]

Transformational leadership is leading by motivating. Transformational leaders provide extraordinary motivation by appealing to followers’ ideals and moral values and inspiring them to think about problems in new ways. These followers have felt trust, admiration, loyalty, and respect for them and were motivated to do more than they thought they […]

We think we understand leaders and leadership. And I suppose to some extent we do. But we also work with a lot of leadership mythology-curious ideas developed over time like urban legends-and demons-either blaming leaders for evil in the world or looking upon leadership with suspicion. Leadership myths are pervasive […]