This article is designed to provide guidance for executives, managers, and specialists, who are involved in leading the strategic direction of their organisations. We look at the approach that successful leaders must take in order to create, maintain, and nurture positive relationships with colleagues, suppliers, customers, partner organisations, and other stakeholders.
Only a Passing Glance
Many of todays thinkers, scientists and physicists are beginning to express the view that the greatest discoveries going forward will be along spiritual lines. Here is a force which history now clearly teaches has been the greatest power in the development of mankind.
Speaking Well In Public Is By No Means Accidental
You might possibly know how jokes can complement your speech. But jokes can also cause your speech to be disastrous. Jokes are both a boon and bane to a speech.
If you are very much in comfort with it, use humor. Just check it first if it fits, serving as a breaker between sections or emphasizing a certain point. A funny and great line, or a comment that is irreverent can help liven up the presentation that you have and will help people to remember the things you have sai…
Train Your Leadership – Realise Your Full Potential
Leadership training is a great way to develop your potential and really make the most of your talents. Effective leadership is essential in any organisation and is highly sought after by employers. With open learning you can gain these valuable skills without having to disrupt your current lifestyle.
Delivering A Speech? Maintain Eye Contact
Body language is very important when delivering a speech.
Have you ever seen our great leaders fidget or make unnecessary movements while addressing the nation?
Since you are the center of attention while making the presentation, you should mind every move that you make so as not to bore or distract the people listening to your speech.
So you already have a speech prepared, you know the topic well and you are now standing in front of the audience.
They are in for …
Handouts As Public Speaking Tools
Handouts are important tools for effective public speaking. They serve as guides for your audience. Handouts will allow the listeners to follow what you are discussing. Handouts are important and should be well prepared.
When giving out the handouts to your listeners, remember to choose the right time. It is not recommended to give them out right away at the beginning of your speech. This will only make the listeners tend to lose focus. It is important in public speaking t…
Keeping Conflict in Perspective
A surprise attack is one of the hardest conflicts to handle. Its a shock to the system. Often the first reaction (after your heartbeat returns to normal) is to blame the other person or to blame yourself and to get caught in endless internal dialogue about who’s at fault and what to do next.
Leadership Skills: Managing Meetings
In this article we look at how leaders should prepare for and manage meetings with the senior management team, in order to ensure that the meetings contribute positively to the organisations strategies.
Paddles, Portages And Pings On Leadership
After 3 long days of a very intensive workshop in Toronto, a group of us decided to go canoeing for a day, up in Barre, Ontario (an hour north of Toronto) on the Nottawasaga River. It was a warm day, the water was warm, and no one else was on this pristine flat-water river winding through a protected swamp.
We had idyllic moments out of time, we had mishaps and laughs, and we had the slogs of carrying canoes and gear (called a portage) around logjams in the river more tha…
Speak Your Mind!
For most people, the mere thought of speaking before an audience causes mens hands to go clammy and their hearts to pound like a kettledrum. Statistics show that people fear public speaking more than they do their own deaths. It shows that for the majority, people would rather die in silence than take a chance to speak their minds in society. Maybe its conformity and a fear of saying something irrelevant.
The importance in public speaking lies in the fact that as social…
Transform Your Organization With Facilitative Leadership
Effective leadership is a critical factor in the success of every organization. Learn the skills necessary for facilitative leadership to transform your organization and the bottom line.
Developing Leadership Skills
This article is designed to provide guidance for executives, managers, and specialists, who are involved in leading the strategic direction of their organisations. The articles will cover all the main areas of expertise, knowledge, and understanding, that are need to successfully lead an organisation in todays complex and fast-changing world.