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Secrets Of Leadership - 8 Critical Leadership Roles The strategist: leadership as a game of chess. Good at dealing with developments in the organisational environment, giving vision, strategic direction and outside-the-box thinking to create new developments. The change-catalyst: leadership as a turnaround activity. Good with challenging and difficult situations, focusing upon re-engineering and creating new …
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What Leadership Is All About Leadership is all about the following, and very little else: Providing meaning and purpose. Focusing on the right things to do and not things that are irrelevant or side-issues. Setting up the operational environment correctly. Getting other people to do what I want. Motivating staff so that they get things …
The Four I’s Of Leadership Leadership: the one thing we all want to get right, the one thing that will make us stand out from the crowd (hopefully for the right reasons!) and the one thing that we want to be remembered for. A difficult thing to judge and get right – sometimes a life-long …
What Skills Does An Excellent Manager Have? Excellent management shows the following Skills, all day, every day: Loyalty Likes people and has a natural people focus Looks across the borders of their job to see other issues and horizons Shows Tact Honesty Self-confidence Optimistic Courageous Uses managerial power with respect Totally Trustworthy Has Ambition Shows …
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Leadership Skills For Success Right Now Leadership is not about living, behaving and being like a superhero! Leaders are people and have a responsibility to other people. One key question to ask yourself is what people think of you in your role. Are you too self-centred for your own good? Do you define yourself by …
What Are The TOP Leadership Skills That You Need To Be Successful? Regardless of the type of organisation where you work and the market and customers it services there are a few skills and traits that you need to develop to be successful in your field: Intelligence: you do not need to be supremely clever …
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Making Sense Of Leadership – Top Survival Techniques Leadership can be a scary and often lonely experience – to master the responsibility consider the following pointers and apply them to your own set of circumstances. Know what the target looks like.Make it your business to understand, really understand your organisation’s strategy and leadership expectations. It …
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What Makes For A Good Leader? Intelligence: sifting through data, making decisions, tracking projects running at the same time and managing many different types of resources. Technical intelligence: having functional and technical knowledge and skills so that they can manage difficult issues and make the right decisions. Motivation: managers need to be super-motivated, ambitious and …
Essential Management Skills - How Do You Measure Up? How do you measure yourself against the following skills? Truly successful managers are experts in their field BUT also live and breathe the following key skills: Positivity: This will mean leading people and teams through good times and challenging times. The challenging times can be tough, …
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Do I Have Good Team Leadership Skills? Successful managers are just so because they know how to lead and manage their people – often, however, we do not take the time to evaluate how effective and efficient our Team might be or possibly because we are afraid of what we might uncover! Assessing the Team …
