David Summerton Business Consulting
What Qualities Should A Positive Leader Possess? Leadership is all about being a positive role model and inspiring those around you to develop their skills and to help grow the business or service. Much has been written about the skills and traits needed for success in the Leadership role and here are some essentials that …
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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 …
Key Leadership Principles To Deliver Success Forget all the jaw-jaw, to really make your mark follow the Principles below to significantly increase your expertise, skills and success in the job role: Leading to Win: Build your credibility from coherent action and positive leadership – let people know who you are and what you stand for. …
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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 …
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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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 …
Does My Management Style Deliver Total Quality Management? The BIG question that needs to be asked, but which many managers shy away from, is to be brutally honest with yourself and ask if what you are really doing meets the Total Quality Management (TQM) approach to running a business/service/product delivery? Ask yourself the following tough, …
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