Eight Actions Determine If You Can Be Trusted
Trust and empowerment stem from the individual actions of the manager. However, once initiated, trust and empowerment create a synergy within the organization that has the ability to move it forward to...
View ArticleDoes Compassion and Empathy Have a Role in Leadership?
Leaders do have control over the actions, behaviors and decisions that influence and shape their personal credibility. This once again involves self-awareness as well as comprehensive critical thinking...
View ArticleLeaders Are Judged By The Actions They Take
First and foremost, leaders are judged by the actions they take. Today’s high profile leaders are prominently visible to all of their key constituencies. Of all the leaders surveyed, the great ones...
View ArticleIs Conflict Destructive to Your Organization?
Inherent in any conflict is the base struggle for survival. It may be the survival of one’s point of view, perspective or power base. In other instances, it may be the struggle of one group or...
View ArticleDoes Luck Play a Role in a Leader’s Success?
It is often easy to attribute the success of great and influential leaders to pure luck. Undoubtedly, some turned out to be the right person in the right place at the right time. However, they also had...
View ArticleAre You Willing to Pay the Price to Succeed?
Individuals experience a prolonged, but undetermined period of adversity, disappointment, discouragement and failure early in their careers, which either refines them or breaks their spirits. How they...
View ArticlePerformance Driven Leaders Must Establish Clear Employee Expectations
Performance driven leaders must establish clear employee expectations if they expect to achieve positive results and outcomes that are totally aligned with their vision, mission, and goals.
View ArticleDo Your Communications Have Room For Improvement?
Surveys often show employees are concerned with the quality of communications in the workplace. Many feel companies give lip service and are not sincere in the messages they communicate. Others feel...
View ArticleDon’t Push Out Figures When Facts Are Going in the Opposite Direction
Sit down before the facts with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures...
View ArticleThe Only Certainty for Leaders is That Change Will Occur
Change undoubtedly poses a challenge to every leader. This is because it can be anticipated only to the degree that it is predictable. Long-term changes and trends can be generally anticipated, but...
View ArticleThe Mastery of Details is an Integral Part of Leadership
The great leaders intuitively understood the potential for waste within large organizations, and immersed themselves in the details of their businesses to increase efficiencies, drive down costs and...
View ArticleA Team’s Foundation is Built Upon Structure and Focus
Teams can encounter many problem areas during their tenure, but most challenges arise during the establishment of the team. Without a strong foundation that includes a focus, a mission, rules,...
View ArticlePersonal Credibility is Anchored in Character and Integrity
Personal credibility is based upon a leader’s character and integrity and the actions and behaviors that stem from them. Far from perfect, many of the leaders I surveyed had character flaws and...
View ArticleA Systematic Approach is Required to Structure Your Teams
Leaders should be cognizant of the fact that teams do not evolve automatically, and that the only things that do in the organizational environment are disorder, friction and poor performance. Effective...
View ArticleEmpowered Organizations Develop Employee Commitment
The sole purpose of creating an empowered organization is to develop employee commitment. The role of the leader in this capacity is to ensure that the same common mission and set of values is...
View ArticleWhen Evaluating Performance Consider the Intangibles
Although performance can be documented in tangible and measurable terms, it invariably points to the performance or lack thereof of the individual(s) accountable for specific results. However, because...
View ArticleTrust is Based Upon Truth
Establishing trust is difficult, time-intensive work. It is earned when synergistic working relationships are established with individual employees. These relationships are characterized by active...
View ArticleActive Leadership Takes Courage, Passion and Conviction
Active leadership takes individual courage, passion and conviction. The role requires challenging established positions and procedures. It not only places the spotlight on leaders’ behaviors but also...
View ArticlePlanning as a Means to Generate, Oversee and Measure Results
Effective leaders tend to view planning as a means to generate, oversee and measure results. Planning gives leaders time to consider how they can improve their own as well as overall workplace...
View ArticleCommunication Has to Start With Telling the Truth
The great leaders spent the majority of their time traveling and communicating with employees and key constituencies. This allowed them to become personally acquainted and to influence employees on all...
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