An Incident of Workplace Bullying : The Leader’s Response

As a leader in your organisation you have a big part to play in determining how your organisation responds to incidents of workplace bullying.  In fact, your personal attitude, and the actions that you take both immediately after an incident and in the longer term, set the tone for how your organisation is seen by its workforce [...]

On Leading and Accountability

It’s fairly straightforward to work effectively alongside responsible colleagues. Responsible colleagues generally want to work hard, want to make progress on the tasks that sit with them, and want to build productive relationships with you and their other workplace contacts. They may, from time to time, get things wrong or make mistakes or fail to [...]

3 Leadership Lessons that Steve Jobs Never Learned

Imagine the potential Steve Jobs had if he had been a Leader… A quick Google search will return descriptive words for Steve Jobs, who passed away the evening of October 5th, 2011. Genius Visionary Perfectionist Hard-driving executive Brilliant Creative Master Showman Cult Hero Co-founder Without a doubt, there is something quite amazing about watching someone [...]

3 Strategies To Achieve the Impossible

Stories of ordinary people overcoming enormous obstacles get our attention. We’re inspired by those who find ways to build the personal strength to achieve the impossible. As an FBI new agent, I spent sixteen weeks at the FBI Academy. While there were several obstacles for me to overcome, the most grueling also happened to be [...]

Articles of Faith: Leading through Challenges

—————————————————————————– 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. —————————————————————————– We all face challenges on our path to achieving our goals.  But what do we do when we face challenges from specific people? Do we run [...]

Leaders: Are You Asking the Right Questions?

Great Results Begin With Great Questions ~ Joseph S Edwards Do good managers do the work for their staff ? Or do they lead them to creatively think through the dilemma  so they can develop the right skills to problem solve going forward? On Courage and Questions In past posts I have talked about managerial courage , [...]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Office – Part 1 Denial

Recently I was reading yet another news story of how radically the world had changed in past few years and how it may be a long time before things get much better. Another story was about how unhappy most employees are but how they cannot leave their current jobs because of the fear generated by [...]

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