Todays businesses are experiencing a worrying lack leadership, not only to lead current businesses forward into growth and expansion but to mentor, support and encourage leadership with in the business for the future. Managers will continue to just manage if they do not have positive role models to learn from and aspire to be.
Leadership & Teamwork
Strong, positive teamwork is defined by a leader who has a vision and the ability to inspire his or her team to work toward the realization of that vision.
The leader is not threatened in the least by the expertise and diversity of his or her team. Rather, a good team leader engages his or her teammates in a discussion about what quality looks like, what is needed to perform and complete the job, and empowers the team members to always strive for quality improvement.
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Public Speaking Basics For Starters
The content of the speech should match the information needed by the audience. Preparing the material carefully and specifically can ensure success on your public speaking endeavor. It will be helpful to tape record one’s own speech and then listen to it carefully. Do this in front of the mirror. This would tell you which are the strong points and which are the weaknesses of your speech.
Below are the most important things to take note of when invited to do a public speech…
The ABC of Superlative Leadership
Learn your alphabet of leadership and take your team to new heights.
Why Most Leadership Development Efforts Fail
Organizations invest large amounts of time and even more money trying to develop their leaders. Unfortunately much of that investment doesnt get the return it should. This article tells you why.
Entelechy Speaks to Bill George about Authentic Leadership
Terence Traut from Entelechy, Inc. interviews Bill George for leadership strategies.
How To Identify Poor Leadership Programs
There seems to be a real deficit in good leadership and a large surplus of poor and pathetic leadership in many businesses today. Learn more in this article
Leadership Development
This article focuses on leadership in the workplace, for both aspiring leaders and those managers who are taking on leadership roles.
Leading Change: Pick Up Your Own Room (But No One Else’s) . . .
Just this morning, my wife Holly caught me red-handed straightening up my 12 year-olds room.
This, not 2 hours after we both communicated to our precious Katie in no uncertain terms that she would go no where, see no one, do no thing until she removed the ½ eaten sandwich, empty sprite cans, soiled laundry . . . and only the Creator knows what else… to reveal what once was, and could be again a nicely appointed pre-teen bedroom.
As Holly observed (and shared in a…
Public Speaking Lessons
The benefits of communication are evident from the least sophisticated creatures to the most advanced as in humans.
Perhaps, among the creatures especially endowed with the power of communication, humans make use of them more intensely and with a purpose that each speech made has had some effect on the people who hears them.
Not only do humans use communication in everyday survival but uses it for a variety of reasons. It is used to inspire and to deliver important me…
The ABCs Of Q & A Sessions In Public Speaking
During presentations, it is the question and answer part that serves as a good occasion to know how much the audience understood or how much they did not understand from all of that speaking you did. It is also the best opportunity to be able to show your sense of humor, if you have one. Also, the question and answer portion is a good means to get your audience to participate.
The most used way, if not the most boring one, to open up the question and answer portion is: are…
Why You Need A Board Of Advisors/Mastermind Group
This week Ive had a lot of discussions with people about Mastermind Groups. All large corporations have a Board of Directors to be sure the company stays true to their mission, hit their numbers and fulfill their responsibility to stockholders. Small businesses (even sole-proprietorships) need them too. But usually, only those small businesses who accept private funding (from banks, angel investors, venture capitalists) have outsiders on their Board of Directors. A professio…