Apr 03 2013
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Why Leaders Need Strategic Plans Should you have a strategic plan? Unless you are leading a large organization, you may be thinking you don’t need a strategic plan, or that such planning is not your responsibility. Think again! If you are responsible for any part of an organization, you should create a strategic …
Mar 18 2013
Leadership Development: What Supervisors and Managers Need to Know Too often supervisors and managers are thrown into their new position and expected to sink or swim. In fact, sometimes they aren’t even considered worthy of leadership training being “just managers.” Remember supervisors and managers have the most face-to-face, day-to-day contact with the people …
Feb 27 2013
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Do We Need Team Leaders Ever heard of self-led teams? Sometimes they’re called leaderless teams. Are they real? Maybe so; I’ve heard of them, but never actually seen one. What I have seen are poorly led teams and team members that spend most of their time vying for position. Whether by plan or …
Feb 21 2013
Ten Essential Steps for Leaders in a Crisis What are the top ten things for a leader to do when faced with a crisis? I saw this question recently and it got me thinking. Good leaders try to anticipate crisis, developing plans and checklists for anything that might happen. But what about when …
Feb 20 2013
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Leading Teams with Star Players In just about any team sporting event you’ll hear about the Most Valuable Player, or MVP. It’s easy to conclude that without this particular player, the contest would have would have been lost. Perhaps that’s true but in the teams you’re leading at work, the concept of an …
Feb 13 2013
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Leading Teams You Don’t Get to Select In the military, leaders change jobs frequently and seldom get to select their own teams. Instead, military leaders are sent to an organization to pick up where their predecessor left off and work with the team that is already in place. Though I sometimes felt this …
Feb 06 2013
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Team Leader Responsibilities You’re going to be leading a team and it suddenly hits you. How? What’s the secret to effective team leadership? Here are some basic tips to help you get started right. 1. Make sure you have a clear mission and definite goals. Then make sure everyone on the team understands …
Feb 04 2013
Leadership and Talent Management Take a look at this article from Chief Executive.net. The author is speaking about talent management and identifies the top ten concerns for 2013. Leadership development is on that list, but note that the other nine are really leadership issues also. Four Steps to Better Talent Management
Dec 11 2012
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Leading with Standards and Expectations “Jerry doesn’t do much work does he?” “No he doesn’t. I hope that will change with the new management.” “Yea, they’re probably going to fire him.” Actually, they probably aren’t. At least not for a while. You see, Jerry has been flaunting the standards for a long time …
Nov 29 2012
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Growing Leaders, A Cautionary Tale We had a great lineup. Each branch of the organization had a leader who was hand-picked by the boss and was doing a good job. Overall, the organization was enjoying much success. But there was a problem. The boss liked the organization the way it was and was …
