Learning To Love Your Mistakes
You can only learn, in the sense of discovering something you didn't know before, from making mistakes, identifying what went wrong, then correcting and trying again. But in most organisations, making any mistake is risky, and doing it openly is often punishable.
Nine Essential Skills Of Thought Leadership
As a leader in the 21st century, it is necessary to really think about what leadership means - and more specifically, Thought Leadership.
5 Dimensions To Building Trust
Trust sits at the base of any relationship - whether it's an organisation, buyer and seller or client and supplier - the strength, sustainability and productive capacity of the relationship will be determined largely by the trust that exists and is experienced.
20 Tips On Thought Leadership
In no particular order ...
Developing Emotional Intelligence: Self Regulation
One of the main points of emotional intelligence as set out by Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence is self management. He describes ‘self regulation' as the first of six components of self management.
Building Loyalty
An organisational culture bereft of loyalty is doomed. What can a leader do to earn the loyalty of their people?
Improve Your Leadership EQ
We must learn how to harness the incredible power of emotions to meet our business challenges. Never has the need for this been so great.
Are You An Ethical Leader?
Ethical actions are much more important than many leaders imagine.
Develop Successful Habits Of The Mind
Successful people use intelligent behaviours or habits of the mind. These behaviours* are best described as ‘knowing what you do when the answers are not immediately apparent'. Here are four behaviours worth developing to become successful.
Achieving Results - Integrating Hard And Soft Issues
The "hard" and the "soft" issues in business are equally important. They are interdependent. Our challenge is to make judgments considering both.
Thought Leadership
Being a leader is about looking into the future, planning, imagining what things could be like, etc. So the expression 'thought leadership' is being used.
Are You An Emotionally Intelligent Leader?
Every organisation needs a leader. It begs the question, what qualities make for a good leader?
Courageous Conversations
Effective leadership requires the skills for having courageous conversations. Being able to speak courageously develops trust and fairness, two critical ingredients for engagement. Leaders who commit to this in themselves and their teams have a clear advantage.
Emotion Plus Logic
What happens when emotion joins logic in the transference of a vision? People unite around the goal and start working to achieve it, because they believe in what they're doing and they understand why they're doing it.
Be A Thought Leader!
Small companies have to work hard to get visibility, especially when the market is crowded with competitors all vying for the same business. So, how does a company become better known with limited resources? By becoming an industry thought leader.
Swallowing Your Pride Seldom Leads To Indigestion
Have you ever thought, "Life would be great if it weren't for certain people"? And do you know someone at work, that if they disappeared during lunch, your life would be better? Probably so. You may even live with such a person.
Improvisation And Thought Leadership - Essential To Success
Is there a way to use adversity itself to build a solid base for achievement, regardless of upturns or downturns? Is it possible to minimise risk without limiting achievement by sticking with the mediocre majority? It is indeed. This article will show you how it works.
Thought Leadership - More Than A Buzzword
Thought leadership is one of the most discussed topics in enlightened leader circles.
IQ Or EQ?
Career success doesn't just rest on how clever you are, but how in touch you are with your own and other's feelings.
Leading With The Heart
Servant leaders put other people's needs, aspirations and interests above their own.
Holding Up The Mirror
You know what it's like when someone accuses you of something that is not true or of an intent that was not your intent at all. As leaders we are faced with this frequently. Just look at politicians, they face it all the time.
Character Is Destiny
One element lies at the heart of leadership: character. Who you are impacts on how you lead.
Naturally Managing The Human Animal
An understanding of basic human instinct can assist business leaders to lead organisations that fit our hardwiring as a species. The outcome is a functioning organisation that just seems to operate “naturally”.
Can You Resist Anything But Temptation?
It used to be that we all had the ability to be resilient. Life almost forced us to be. People were made resilient by World Wars, economic hardship and isolation. Today, we live in a society where resilience is not highly valued nor tested as often.
Real Leaders Love Chaos
It’s become a cliché to say we’re under pressure. I guarantee that 99% of you who are reading this now, found it a challenge to find the time to do so.
Emotional Intelligence, Innovation And Creativity
Emotional Intelligence: For a while it was regarded as just another fad, new age organisational psycho-spin that wouldn’t last. Surely, this can’t be the dawn of the era of the ‘touchy-feely’ boardroom?
Developing An Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Culture
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is an attractive concept because it encapsulates the most powerful of human abilities that IQ misses – the ability to understand how our emotions impact on ourselves and on others.
The Smart New Way CEOs Get Results In Business
While not everyone is cut out to be a leader, not everyone can or wants to be a follower all the time, too. Yet it is often the mix of both that is the smartest, most effective and efficient way to build and sustain business, teams and productivity. So if you are someone who is willing to share your fifteen minutes of fame and let others get the credit occasionally while making your life easier, keep reading.
Top And Bottom Lines
Traditionally the dominant paradigm in management is control because "he that is good with the hammer tends to think that everything is a nail." Executives start thinking that they have to control budgets, schedules, things and people. And so the prevailing style of leadership is benevolent authoritarianism, where the people at the top think they know best and do all the thinking and prescribe methods for getting desired bottom line results.
The Heart Of Leadership
Where does the true power of your leadership lie? What is that core driver for getting the best results in the organisation?
The Heart Of Leadership Communication
Understanding the heart of leadership communication – and being able to effectively manage ‘emotion-driven' communication – is a key to leadership success today. It could also save millions of dollars of hidden costs.
The Awesome Power Of Self Assurance
“I hate managing people” was my client’s opening comment, before we had greeted one another in our usual friendly manner. “Great. Time to stop trying.” was my reply. My client gave me an out of character blank look. “People cannot be managed.” I said. Another blank look.
The Role Of Emotional Intelligence (EI)
What is Emotional Intelligence? There has been much debate in recent years as to whether or not emotional intelligence is an appropriate tool to measure leadership potential.
The Conscious CEO - The New Face Of Leadership
What makes a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) stand out as a true leader, one who has charisma, who is decisive yet takes into account all points of view, who is able to ask questions or find solutions that have eluded everyone else, who forges incredibly strong and long lasting strategic visions and systems?
Emotional Leadership - Tapping Into The Mother Lode Of Emotional Energy
Have you ever been told to keep your work life separate from your personal life as if you could? If you are excited at home, are you supposed to sit in the car park until you return to neutral before starting work? If you are upset at work, how is it possible to change your emotional state on the way home to become someone else as you enter the door?