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Leadership Mistakes

Why Most Leadership Training Is A Waste Of Money And What You Can Do About It.

Wally Bock asked: A group of senior executives are finishing up a three-day program at a top leadership training center. They’ve already filled out evaluations of the courses they took and the instructors. Now they’re grading the facilities and meals. Soon they’ll be heading back home to see what work has piled up while they […]

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Communicating as a Leader

Differentiation-based Leadership: Three Questions That Every Leader Must Ask

Michel Neray asked: The more competition you face, the greater the need to highlight the differentiation — the unique advantage of your product or service — in order to succeed in the marketplace. Differentiation-based leadership places the onus of grasping, defining and communicating that differentation on the shoulders of the leader, and extends the concept […]

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Micro Management

How To Use Motivation Techniques Effectively

Brue Baker asked: Motivation techniques are essential for success in anything. Any goal or aspiration requires a lot of effort and the ability to overcome adversity. Motivation is the driving force that keeps you going towards your goal no matter how hard it is or how long it takes to succeed. If your desire is […]

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Managing Performance / Setting Goals

Change Management in the Workplace

Shaun Akid asked: Change Management is an organised, systematic application of the knowledge, tools, and resources of change that provides organisations with a key process to achieve their business strategy. Change Management is a critical part of any project that leads, manages and enables people to accept new processes, technologies, systems structures and values. Change […]

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Micro Management

Are You the Worst Leader in the World?

Steven Sonsino asked: The question I am most often asked by managers is: ‘Why won’t they do what I want?’ This is usually followed by: ‘And why don’t they work harder?’ As leaders and managers, we often assume that, if our employees really wanted to perform better, their performance would just increase. We assume that […]

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Leadership Styles

A Winning Spirit Inspires Leaders and Employees to Achieve Greater Success

Randy Gilbert asked: Many employees dread going to work each day. They are miserable, spending their entire week just waiting for the weekend to arrive. Their work suffers; they don’t work up to their potential, feeling unappreciated. It is a vicious circle causing management to be unreasonable and demanding while employees become more unhappy. Lisa […]

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Defining Leadership

Innovation – not Registering Patents But Achieving Leadership Positions

Sajin Nair asked: Most entrepreneurs spend 16-18 hours working on their laptops, taking calls and spending lot of hours with different department heads to improve the business results. They spend lot of hours in improving their processes in the hope that one day they would be able to improve their productivity and satisfy their customers. […]

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Leadership Styles

Do You Have the Right Leadership Style?

Diana Keith asked: Let’s take a look at a familiar team scenario: You’ve assembled an exceptional team for an upcoming project, and spent time and money choosing members based on their experience, personalities, and skills pertaining to the job at hand. You know you have the talent to get the job done, so there is […]

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Feedback and Rewards

Six Sigma Team Recognition And Rewards

Tony Jacowski asked: The Advantages of Rewards In Six Sigma architecture, having a rewards and recognition policy in place is equally important. In bringing about changes in the system smoothly, rewards and recognition can play a very important role. If employees feel that their initiatives are being recognized, they will come forward with suggestions for […]

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Transformational Leadership

An Essential Key to your Business Growth, a Motivational Message!

Temp asked: A lot of people think Motivational Speaking means that some overly peppy guru spouts off idealistic clichs. Yet the heart of a CEOs charisma comes from their ability to deliver a message, be it to one person or to a group of many, with a high energy level that connects with the hearts […]