LEADERSHIP ARTICLES

Organizing and planning are linked in many ways and mutually dependent The main difference is that planning concerns itself with deciding what work is to be done while organizing concerns itself primarily with the arrangements for getting it done

Leadership helps and it’s vital for organizations to invest in training their leaders as this will decide the performance of their employees and of course this will impact on the success of the organization Most people say that leadership cannot be trained as it comes naturally

Charismatic leadership is a quality or a power to command something mainly a group of people to achieve the desired results of a common effort It is a way to regulate someone in order to comply with the rules and procedures planned to make the vision achievable

When thinking of the tasks of a project manager, you probably think of Gantt charts, work-breakdown structures, handling budgets or running meetings However, this is only a small piece of what a project manager does in an organization

In the self-help industry, Dr Stephen R

No matter it is a company, a family, committee or a nation, they all require people having complete package of leadership skills which include leadership games A leader is not a boss but a person who is committed to obtain mission and guides all other members to achieve common goal

Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric is known as a modern day inventor of corporate entrepreneurship, effective management and a staunch fighter of bureaucracy Despite the fact that GE was a huge company, Welch ran it as if it were a small, agile firm ready to do battle with any of its competition

In my experience of working with over 110 businesses around the world over many years, I have been amazed at how often we are called in because the business owner has problems with staff or customers or suppliers or the market Invariably our first meeting with an owner is dominated by the owner telling us all the problems he is facing and how everyone is against him

If you show your team the proper way to win, does everyone win no matter what the outcome This question is posed in Coaching from the Heart by Ken Blanchard and Don Shula and it is answered in the affirmative

In order to be recognized as a successful HR leader, there are three roles you must manage The first is the ability to implement organizational strategy

Many factors contribute to success in a person's life The 10 Qualities of Charismatic People, written by Dr

There are some people that are born natural leaders, and there are others that become great leaders through dedication and experience and a desire to see the people that they are leading succeed Mac Anderson is a highly successful entrepreneur that has written a book call "The Essence of Leadership

One common topic in employee relations training is how to increase employee engagement If your company values employee engagement, the human resources department must work to create an engagement strategy using the resources available

Project managers must face a variety of challenges in their day to day work Project uncertainty is a given, but training in project management can help project managers better face and overcome these difficulties

The term “groupthink” was first used by Irving Janus in 1972 when he was researching why teams made excellent decisions one time, yet made disastrous decisions another time The two most famous and widely used examples of groupthink that led to disastrous outcomes are the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion

In the early 1970’s Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard developed one of the most popular and used leadership models which is called Situational Leadership While I think a more appropriate name would have been situational management since it deals primarily with task execution, the model is still very relevant and useful today

There has been much written about the turnaround of the Chicago National Hockey League franchise – from being almost dead last in attendance to winning the Stanley Cup in June of 2010 In 2004, ESPN had named the Blackhawks the worst franchise in sports

A key role and responsibility of any manager is to develop those people who report to them Often, when developing subordinates through delegation or training activities, managers may fail to take into account that each person has different learning preferences

Bobby Cox, the manager of the Atlanta Braves baseball team, is retiring at the end of this season after 29 seasons as a manager He is fourth on the all time list of wins by a manager

Last week as I went through airport security, waiting for my husband who was getting the grand pat down for the zillionth time since his hip replacement operation eighteen months ago, I was musing about how we normalize the abnormal Going through security, checking for vials or sharp objects, or whatever, is now a common way of life

Often times when companies have to squeeze the financial belt, developing employees and creating future leaders gets pushed aside However building a sustainable company requires having a leadership growth and succession plan in place at all times

Leadership development is an activity that improves the quality of leadership in a company, organization, or a single individual Leadership development programs can range from an MBA degree to executive retreats (think high ropes courses) to online leadership certificate programs

Have you ever been treated unfairly at work Were you ever asked to do more than your fair share

Success changes everything The world looks up to a successful person with eyes wide open

Introduction to Leadership and Creating an Executive Development Strategy With all the hype recently surrounding leadership development, we should not forget the most senior and influential leaders of them all - the directors and C-suite executives These high-powered individuals are faced with making the most critical decisions every day