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Young and Minority Leaders

Breaking The Division Races Down On Memorial Day

Steven Zoine asked: Generally speaking, being in first place on Memorial Day is a good sign of things to come. Memorial Day typically marks the one-third mark for the Major League Baseball season, and by this point you have a pretty good idea of which teams are going to be in the running and which […]

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Leadership Mistakes

Different Resumes for Different Job Descriptions

Sarika Kabra asked: It would be a mistake to assume that once you have your resume sample ready, it can be used for all purposes and for any occasion no matter what kind of job it is you are seeking or applying for. While ideally your sample resume should contain all the salient features of […]

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Leadership Styles

The Three Forgotten Reasons Why CEOs Fail

Steven Sonsino asked: A decline in a company’s financial position may be the fastest way a chief executive can lose his or her job, as the global credit crunch has shown. But it’s easy to forget that several other factors can be just as threatening to the person at the top. Some of them may […]

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Improving Team performance

How to Conduct More Effective Performance Discussions – Focus on Mutual Benefits

Barbara Brown, PhD asked: It’s time to sit down and talk to your employees about their performance. If your staff is similar to that of most managers, your employees perform at different levels. Some are high performers, some are average performers, and some are low performers. So you will have different discussions with different employees.  […]

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Traits of a Leader

Team Spirit

Prof.M.S.Rao asked: (STRENGTH IN SYNERGY)TEAM SPIRIT BY PROF. M.SRINIVASA RAO Andrew Carnegie said, “Team work is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results”. Formation of homogeneous group out of heterogeneous for achieving […]

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Transformational Leadership

Build an Awesome Team

Joe asked: Team Building is not a task as tedious as it is thought to be. In team building: 1. One should not go too much in the technical details. ie. seeing and analysing too much details about the candidate 2. One should follow his heart and then too be in the limits of professionalism. […]

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Improving Team performance

Team Health Indicators

Ed Oakley asked: The power teams can be equated to draft horses. One can pull 5,000 pounds, but together they can pull 30,000. Yet too often teams are implemented as an end versus a means to an end. Teams have, in some circles, become a trend, implemented “because it’s the thing to do.” While teams […]

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Teamwork

Planning A Team Building Weekend

Brett Danielson asked: One of the underlying concepts of a team building activity is that it is designed to foster at team spirit among the participants, and help them focus on what they need to do in day to day work in order to function effectively as a team. So you’ve just taken your team […]

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Teamwork

Johnny Wimbrey – it takes TEAM WORK to make DREAM WORKS

Irene Rexlee asked: While it all fine too follow the principle of ‘try and try harder’, if you truly wish to succeed then it is crucial that you train your brain accordingly. Training your brain is not difficult; most people can do that with no trouble at all. The ‘problem’ is that before you can […]

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Communicating as a Leader

Project Management Courses: Improving Communication and Time Management

sheila Mulrennan asked: Time is of the essence, especially when you’re part of an organization. If you forget to submit your year-long goals and plans on time, or when you just simply wait for work, you will be affecting not only your job but also of someone else’s. Moreover, you’re wasting company’s time, which is […]