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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Articles of Faith: Tools of the Trade

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Chadwick Taylor

—————————————————————————– 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 [...]

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Importance of Consistent Leadership

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Steve Goble

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 [...]

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The Three Hardest Words for Leaders to Say

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Dr. Merlin Switzer

As leaders, we all know the importance of setting a good example. Posner and Kouzes, in The Leadership Challenge, refer to it as Model the Way. It’s one of the five fundamental practices of exemplary leadership. It obviously makes sense to set a good example. Why, then, is it hard to admit a mistake? After [...]

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How to Lead an Adversarial Peer

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Aryanne Oade

Have you ever experience an office situation where regular interpersonal discord, or even daily combative behaviour was the order of the day? If so, how did you deal with it? Did you do something to resolve the nagging situation? Did you work at ending the agitation? Or did you leave it alone and hope that it [...]

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