David Summerton Business Consulting
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 …
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 …
5 Basic Rules of Successful Management Innovation: make sure that what you do is continually being updated, refined, developed and improved. History is littered with organisations that did not opt to innovate and develop. How many people do you know that watch a black and white television? Mastery: be the very best at what you …
How To Be A Successful Manager In 7 Simple Steps Management is a hard discipline and it takes many years to be able to get yourself into a position where your management style is effective and gets things done. There will be many times when your decisions did not go the way you wanted them …
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How To Be A Flexible Manager Organisations thrive and grow because their staff, and specifically their management talent, is flexible in their approach to all aspects of the job and the wider organisational context. So, what are the 5 Golden Rules of Flexibility? Never decide upon a course of action and then stick to it, …
Managing - A Simple Four Point Plan For Success There are many myths surrounding how to run a successful Department, Team or Business but the entire range of models and ideas boil down to managing carefully and systematically the following factors: Objectives; what exactly are you trying to achieve? If this is unclear your chances …
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Energy: seeing things through to a conclusion. Passion: getting things done. Humility: allowing staff to take the credit for successes and recognising your own limitations. Stamina: the ability to push on. Intelligence: understanding issues and seeing beyond the immediate situation. Knowledge: understanding and applying key chunks of knowledge to a range of tasks. Judgement: being …
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