Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
Test Your Leadership with These Two Questions
Are you running a business, or an organization, or a team? For a quick rating of your own leadership, ask yourself these questions about bad news: How quickly do you get the bad news? A real leader is the first person to hear bad news. People don’t wait to tell you. They don’t tell each other…
Read More10 Leadership Communication Tips to Build Employee Engagement
According to a fairly recent study conducted by the Gallup Business Journal, only a mere 30% of employees in the US are actively engaged in their jobs. Now, with this in mind, it’s no wonder that retention as well as enhanced productivity strategies are currently becoming a quintessential consideration for different organizations in the US…
Read More5 Ways to Create a Powerful Cohesive Team
Leaders are the people who guide companies into the future and inspire people to follow them along the way. In this article we discuss the specific thought processes that a leader uses to transform a team from average to awesome—into one cohesive, highly motivated team who are willing to go the extra mile to meet objectives.…
Read More15 Tips That Excelerate Performance
Developing loyal customers begins with developing a team who understand the importance of customer-focused service and care about the total customer experience. A key building block of developing high performance employees is recognizing the behaviors that you want repeated—those that ultimately create loyalty with your customer. Employees who receive regular recognition are happier in their…
Read More10 Keys to a Business Culture That Can Adapt Quickly
As an entrepreneur, you have to improvise and adapt quickly to survive and thrive in the face of the unpredictable challenges of the market. But this improvisation a not a comedy, although there are some distinct correlations, in relation to reacting, adapting, and communicating. In business and in comedy, you win most often with “Yes,…
Read MoreWhy Leadership Coaching Works
More and more businesses are utilizing leadership team development as part of an integral approach to developing key staff. When leaders get bogged down with everyday management tasks such as planning, budgeting, organizing and even motivating staff, their own personal development and vision starts to fall by the wayside. The common mistake in many businesses…
Read More4 Powerful Ways to Motivate Your Team
Inspiring leaders recognize that money is not the main reason people come to work. Sure, it’s the primary motivator for why we work—but once the concept of comparable pay for comparable work has been addressed, it fails to inspire passion in the workplace. Truly understanding the real reasons why most people turn up for work day after day, year…
Read More4 Important Reasons a Leader Embraces Change
There is a distinct difference between managers and leaders, one of them being how they deal with organizational change. A leader has an entirely different vision to that of a manager. Managers fear change because it upsets their carefully structured way of life, while leaders embrace change because they know that change leads to new ways…
Read MoreHow to Run a Great Small Business When the Pressure Is On
In the summer of 2003 more than 26 wildfires started in Glacier National Park, burning a total of 136,000 acres of forest and sending fireballs and giant columns of smoke into the air from July to September. The fire closed down some of the most popular sections of a park that attracts around 2 million…
Read MoreWhich is More Important: Management Quality or a Better Plan?
So, what do you think is more important? The quality of your management team, or the plan you execute toward success? Checking with professional investors from angels to VC’s, the answer appears to be near unanimous: the quality of the proposed or actual management team comes in a strong first, before the attractiveness of the business…
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