Articles related to: leadership
176: Practice Making Breakthroughs
Athletes know they must repeat their conditioning and training to achieve top performance. Musicians know that without practice their sound won't appeal to very many people.Business people often do ju..
177: Leaders: What They've Learned About Making the Improbable the Accomplishment of Tomorrow
Successful leaders come from various backgrounds, diverse ethnicity and different eras; but, they all have one thing in common: they have made a difference in the lives of many and have made a positiv..
178: Theory Based Communication for Leaders - Failure to Communicate
"What we have here is a failure to communicate." From the movie Cool Hand Luke. You are the leader the next door and you have to give a speech, make a presentation, write an advertisement, or simply c..
179: Check Your Plan Before You Act
Carpenters have a rule of thumb: Measure twice; cut once.Careful carpenters take that one step further and measure three times before cutting.However, either approach can be inadequate if the carpente..
180: 5 Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fal..
181: Identify World Class Breakthroughs
Two people are out on a windy day. One person stops to pick up a quarter. While he is stopped over, his companion chases a crumpled hundred dollar bill and captures it. Many times the same effort c..
182: Customer Service ABC's
What makes for outstanding customer service in your business? Follow some of these alphabetical tips to provide high quality service, along with a dash of fun for customers.A: Anticipate: Plan ahead ..
183: The Leader Next Door Needs Written Goals
You're the leader next door and have heard over and over that you need to set goals and write them down. You sit down in front of the computer to make a list of what development you want to take place..
184: Do You Call Yourself A Leader? Do Your People Call You THEIR Leader?
Leaders, in order to be effective, must inspire confidence in order to have followers.Unless leaders have followers they aren't leading anybody are they?Effective leaders are those who inspire confide..
185: Is Your Family Getting Your 'Left-Overs?'
Two Steps to Creating Balance in '08How well did you balance your work and home life in 2007? Did you experience abundance in both arenas? Or was your house a pit stop: a stop in the road where you co..
186: Leadership Mistakes - Do Not Kill Your Organization By Making These 4 Common Leadership Mistakes
The mistakes committed by leaders can be very costly for companies of any size. To eliminate the possibilities of any such mistakes and to lessen their graveness, there are many Leadership Development..
187: Put a Winning Team into the Competitive Fray to Create Breakthroughs over Competitors
At the end of the AFC Championship Game in NFL playoffs in early 2007, the New England Patriots fell just short of beating the Indianapolis Colts at home. In thinking about what happened, the Patriot..
188: What Leaders Need to Know about Theory Based Communication
Leadership, sales, marketing, training, mentoring -they all demand communication skills. Understand a few communication theories and you can greatly improve these skills. While I would like to give yo..
189: Experiential Learning
Experiential Learning is not new but is incredibly under used as a method for training and developing staff. Consider for a moment how people tend to be trained at your place of work and what methods ..
190: Why Can't I Stand Up and Talk?
I know why because I represented a large number of the women who attended Dr Ellie Drake’s last conference in Atlanta in October. That is the reason why it has taken me until today to finish wr..
191: Become a Practical Optimist to Seize the Best Opportunities from What's New
Is it better to be optimistic, realistic, or pessimistic when it comes to considering new trends, innovations, and opportunities? History has shown that almost everyone is way too pessimistic, even w..
192: Ten Things Leaders Need to Know About Audience Analysis
The right diagnosis is imperative to success in the medical field. Without it, patients suffer and perhaps succumb. Diagnosing the state of health of a patient is a systematic process which helps the ..
193: Top 100 Employers Share Their Secrets Of Success
In June 2004, I was invited to speak at a “Workplace of Choice†conference in Las Vegas sponsored by the American Strategic Management Institute. Representatives from seven of this yearâ..
194: The 24-Day Leadership Lesson
Leadership is not logical. It's deceiving to regard leadership as a straightforward skill with a set of sure-fire steps. Sure, you can find books extolling traits of a good leader and attend seminars ..
195: Successful Succession Planning - Driven By Performance Management
There are a number of areas to keep your eye on as part of your succession planning activities.Top of the list has to be that as you formulate your ideas to get those people organized to be top class ..
196: Four Simple Questions That Will Make Or Break Your Business
Here are four questions for you:1.Do you find it challenging to answer the question, "What's your Unique Selling Position (USP)?" 2. Do you talk about the features of your product or service verses ad..
197: Leadership Skill: Distrust
The very best way to repair a broken bond of trust is to not let it break in the first place. If that is no longer an option, you have a long road ahead of you, winning people back to your confidence...
198: Leadership Skill: Hope
A few months ago, the anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001 took place. That day marked the beginning of a sea change for the world. And change is hard. We’ve had a chance to reflect ..
199: Taking the Personal Out of Discipline!
I don't like the word discipline. I'll tell you why in a few moments.Discipline denotes that some behavior or action is unacceptable either in the work place or in your life. Left unchecked, the una..
200: I Just Don't Understand!
Why doesn't this person do what I want them to do? Can't they just get along? Why is he so abrupt with everyone?Why doesn't she follow the steps in the process like they are meant to be followed? W..
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