Leadership Skills
Don’t just be a boss — be a leader. Maximize your leadership skills in the five most crucial areas: decision making, executive coaching, leadership training, strategic management and understanding your leadership style.
Situational leadership changes depending on the type of leadership (direction and support) each of your employee’s needs. Emotional leadership is based more on the theory of emotional intelligences and relates to the situation at hand.
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Here is an abbreviated version of five practices that lay out the leader’s path:
Take two guys who’ve made it a big part of their “value proposition” to
hire military veterans, and you’ve got the basic leadership philosophy
at Home Depot. Vets are mature, disciplined leaders, says HR chief Dennis Donovan.
Hard knocks can teach you as much as great experiences can. But to
unlock the lessons of hardship, emerging leaders need two things:
Here’s a process for making ethical decisions. Run through this work
sheet if you ever feel queasy about the path you or your organization
is about to take.
You may dread confronting employees face to face about performance issues. But employees are far more likely to accept your critique and commit to improvement if you present those problems in a fair, concrete and “problem-solving” manner. Use these six tips as a framework to guide your discussion: 1. Describe the problem in specific, nonjudgmental [...]
Management fads make employees cynical, says coach and consultant Wolf
Rinke. They feel used and even abused. Eventually, they develop thick
skins so they can stay sane while playing the “Let’s pretend” game
during management’s next fad onslaught. To stop the insanity, Rinke points to research showing that four basic,
“somewhat nonsexy” practices lead organizations to outperform their
peers:
Lord knows, leaders have never been models of perfection. Nobody illustrates that point better than Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence author and third U.S. president.
“I’m hard pressed to think of a trend that [Estée] Lauder started,” writes fashion insider Grace Mirabella. Nonetheless, Mirabella heaps praise on Lauder’s unparalleled cosmetics empire.
Even in conversation, Maj. Richard “Dick” Winters shows the leadership traits that made him a key player on D-day and a pivotal character in the HBO World War II series Band of Brothers. Here’s a sampling of how Winters’ careful preparation honed his leadership skills:
The way you use your organization’s parking lot can send important messages about your unvoiced priorities and your leadership style. Here’s what we saw at five organizations:
