Trust in the Workplace: The Leader’s Judgement Call

As a leader in your organisation, you work in a role where you cannot achieve anything of value unilaterally.  You need to work well with a range of other colleagues to achieve outcomes of benefit to your employer. One of the issues you need to manage as you set about doing this is whom to [...]

Leaders: Steps to Making an Ethical Decision

Moral Development and Leadership? What a concept! We all make decisions constantly. We decide what to wear, what to eat, whether to answer the phone, which route to take to work, and so on. We’re used to making decisions. But the really tough decisions are those where there’s right and wrong on both sides, or [...]

Articles of Faith: Tools of the Trade

—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. See the whole series here. Published only on Sundays. —————————————————————————– Have you ever felt that you were overwhelmed with a task?  Did you feel that you were not properly prepared?  Did you look up to that [...]

Importance of Consistent Leadership

Whether it’s personally or professionally, most people are leaders in some capacity, yet few people see themselves as a leader. Now, think for a moment that your leadership qualities and capabilities were on display for the world to see each and every day? How consistent would you be as a leader?  How much more difficult [...]

On Leadership, Excellence, and Tough Love

Strong leadership demands excellence and tough love. The balance between these attributes is oftentimes difficult to juggle. It is sometimes even more difficult to know in which direction one should go during times of stress or problems. So how should a leader think about leading others with excellence and tough love? Ask Yourself Some Questions [...]

Take Me To Your Leader

Okay. How many of you just read the title of this blogacle sounding like an alien or a robot?  C’mon, I know you did. That “joke” has been around for so long, it’s just become a habit.  Kind of like our own greetings to one another. “Good morning.”  “Morning.”  “Good afternoon.”  “How ya doin?”  We [...]

Handling Conflict at Work: The Leader’s Role

Are you having people problems at work? So how does this make you feel? How many of you look forward to participating actively in a conflict at work, confident that the underlying issues will be resolved and progress made? How many of you keenly anticipate situations of conflict and disagreement among the people you lead, confident that positive outcomes will [...]

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