How to Prepare Your Company for Growth. Many companies aren’t ready for growth: They haven’t clearly articulated the specific strategies they need to compete and win in the market, channeled their resources to bolster their differentiating capabilities (the few things they do better than anyone else), or aligned their organization to execute their plans.
Meanwhile, years of across-the-board cost cuts have enabled them to meet short-term profitability pressures—but only at the expense of long-term priorities. The Key to Being a Creative Leader? Job Security. The Power of Structured Procrastination. The Conscious Lifestyle: A Leader Must Be Aware. 11 Simple Concepts to Become a Better Leader. The team leader's role. What are the critical knowledge and skills for a team leader?
Team diagnostic knowledge and skills – observing and understanding team dynamics and team development Team leadership and intervention – knowing how and when to respond to the team, given the team’s stage of development Interpersonal and team skills – establishing effective team processes in the areas of alignment, decision making, communication, problem solving, conflict management, performance measures, values and norms An effective team leader will Create a positive climate with a shared vision Help develop a set of principles Liaise between the team and upper management Encourage team member growth Be fair Be supportive Give direction where needed. There are several ways in which the team leader can contribute to creating a positive climate within the team. One of the most powerful forces is to put forward, in cooperation with team members, an exciting vision/purpose of what the team is to achieve.
Use the Theory of Seven to motivate others. Institute of Organization Development. The Leadership Development Certificate Program (LDCP) is for those who are assigned the responsibility for implementing leadership development programs.
Using an OD approach, we will show participants how create a strategy for leadership development and then provide them with tools, templates and latest trends to design and implement their unique Leadership Development Program. As a result, they will be able to apply the concepts and use the tools and techniques immediately. This online program provides eight unique topics critical to Leadership Development. The Program is conducted online over eight months-- for three hours per month. Participants receive eight comprehensive participant guides each covering a specific topic. Participants earn 24 HRCI Strategic Business Credits which help them promote their skills as leadership development professionals. Leadership and strategy. Article: Breaking Through The Barrier Of Hardnosed Workers, Part 1.
September 28, 2012 — 4664 views by Ron Newton Summary: A hardnosed worker is a self-destructive, emotionally self-centered, uncontrollable person who would rather cut-and-run than commit.
Our 'Troubled Kids' The tone of the general manager's phone call to the author of this series of articles revealed the deep defiance to authority that he sensed in his workers. "Are you the camp program that helps troubled kids? " "Yes," came the reply. "Good. The manager was desperate enough to ask help from the author's wilderness camp program that rehabilitated troubled youth. Article: Breaking Through The Barrier Of Hardnosed Workers, Part 3. September 29, 2012 — 2645 views by Ron Newton Summary: Dysfunction brings with it opportunity.
Twitter - tools. Leadership. Leadership. Perform With Excellence. Is Your Leadership Showing? Mad about Leadership. Barbara Kellerman has every right to be mad as hell.
Indeed, as you’ll see below, she is not being the least bit intemperate when she claims that our leaders have failed us of late. And she isn’t just talking about Ken Lay, Donald Rumsfeld, and others of their sorry ilk whose egregious behavior generated headlines about corporate bankruptcy and needless wars. She cites a recent poll showing that only 7 percent of all employees trust their leaders. Kellerman’s main point is that those of us in the education racket deserve a full share of blame for this state of affairs. With a few notable exceptions, we’ve failed to recognize or acknowledge that the enterprise in which we are engaged is about as effective as faith healing. The 6 People You Need in Your Corner. Strategy: Why Most Companies (and People) Stink At It.
All Hail the Generalist - Vikram Mansharamani. We have become a society of specialists.
Business thinkers point to “domain expertise” as an enduring source of advantage in today’s competitive environment. The logic is straightforward: learn more about your function, acquire “expert” status, and you’ll go further in your career. Creative Leadership: Humility and Being Wrong. Empathy Is The Most Powerful Leadership Tool. Anything we’re trying to make happen as a leader involves other people, and the fact is, most people don’t have to follow us.
The One Skill All Leaders Should Work On - Scott Edinger. By Scott Edinger | 11:30 AM March 29, 2012 If I had to pick one skill for the majority of leaders I work with to improve, it would be assertiveness.
Not because being assertive is such a wonderful trait in and of itself. 4 Secrets of Great Critical Thinkers. In 2009, J D Wetherspoon, a chain of more than 800 pubs in the UK, was facing declining sales.
Demand for beer had been down for five years. In addition, pricing pressure from super market chains was intense, and higher alcohol taxes further squeezed its already tight margins. 6 Habits of True Strategic Thinkers. In the beginning, there was just you and your partners. You did every job. You coded, you met with investors, you emptied the trash and phoned in the midnight pizza. Now you have others to do all that and it's time for you to "be strategic. " Whatever that means.
Strategy: An Executive’s Definition. This article was written with Kasturi Rangan and Evan Hirsh. The question “What is strategy?” Has spurred numerous doctoral dissertations, countless hours of research, and hearty disagreement among serious management thinkers. How Hard Times Affect a CEO’s Career. Title: Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Style Author: Antoinette Schoar and Luo Zuo (both MIT Sloan School of Management) Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 17590 Date Published: November 2011 CEOs who enter the workforce during a recession tend to have a different career path and management style than those who start when the economy is humming, this paper finds. Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses.