Leadership Follies: Training Is Not A Cure-All

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Anil Saxena

For many years consultants and experts have tried to convince leaders that training can impact performance. It seems like the problem is no longer that they don’t believe that training is important, but that now those same leaders thing that training is the “cure-all” or “silver-bullet.” “What has made people think that training people will [...]

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Occupied With Ethics

Posted on November 9, 2011 by George Brymer

The following comments, spoken by a once-prominent business executive, appear to be a warning for graduates about the ethical challenges awaiting them in the business world. As it turns out, his words provide a hint that the speaker is a crook. “You will be confronted with questions every day that test your morals. Think carefully, [...]

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A Leader’s Boss: The Key to Success

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Cheryl Dilley

Everyone has a boss. Even the CEO answers to the Board of Directors. The BOD answers to the employees and shareholders. In the workplace, one’s boss can be a key ingredient to the performance of a leader and their team. We’ve all heard this phrase:  “A leader is only as good as the people who work [...]

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An Incident of Workplace Bullying : The Leader’s Response

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Aryanne Oade

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 [...]

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The Cost of Making Assumptions

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Judy Lindenberger

I am the former Vice President of my local school board. At each board retreat, our superintendent asked us one question to frame our mindset. The one question was this: “What legacy do you want to leave? Each time, I gave the same answer: “I want us to make decisions based on facts; not on [...]

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Leaders: What’s Really Important

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Kristi Royse

As a leader, have you settled on what is most important to you? Do you know what makes you and those around you truly happy? I was reading a great article in Success Magazine about Roger Ebert where he shared a quote that really got me thinking; “I believe that if, at the end, according [...]

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Trust in the Workplace: The Leader’s Judgement Call

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Aryanne Oade

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 [...]

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