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Leadership Styles

Team Leadership Training: Recipe for Leadership

Akhil Shahani asked: Whoever believes that leaders are born and not made, never heard of team leadership training. Companies spend millions of dollars each year coaching managers to become better leaders of people. Why is team leadership training so important, and what can one hope to gain by participating in such a program? Who needs […]

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Transformational Leadership

Are You Selling Your Soul to the Corporate Life

Richard Cox asked: We spend most of our lives working, usually far away from the ones we love and really want to be with. Are you letting the “way things are” at work make you feel cynical, unhappy, run down, unfulfilled? If so, you are not alone, that is for sure. It is very easy […]

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Verbal Communication Skill Secrets for Success at Work and at Home

Peter Murphy asked: To be able to communicate verbally, even if that “verbal” is with sign language for people who are hearing impaired, is vitally important. Without good verbal communication skill, getting by in life would be virtually impossible. Every day, in so many ways, we use those skills. When you go into work, verbal […]

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Feedback and Rewards

Leadership Tips — Add This to Your Reward System

Tom O\’Dea asked: For as long as I’ve worked in Information Technology (and some of you reading this weren’t even born when I started), it’s been a fact: nobody on the IT team gets more recognition than the guy (or girl) who is the best problem solver.  When something goes wrong, really wrong, this is […]

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Communicating as a Leader

Characteristics of a Successful Leader

Shu Wei Wong asked: As a leader, how should you answer when your subordinate questions you – Why should I be lead by you? The reason some lead, while others are being led, is because leaders bear certain characteristics that make subordinates want to be led. Leaders create opportunities to learn. A leader creates opportunities […]

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Improving Team performance

Performance Improvement is Possible – if You Can Answer These 15 Questions

Barbara Brown, PhD asked: So you want your employees to work faster, smarter, and harder. But how do you make this happen?  You make this happen by always having ready-made answers to most or all of the following 15, spoken or unspoken, questions employees will ask:   1. Why should I care? 2. Why should […]

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Feedback and Rewards

Using Your Motivational Skills to Develop a Team

Carl Hoffman asked: When you are given a situation that evolves a group of people you will find that not only will you have to learn how to work as a team, but motivate each other to work as a team. There are so many things that you are going to have to do in […]