Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Leaders Get Respect By Giving Respect
In the following video, Tom explains that the best way for leaders and managers to get respect is for them to give it. This short video gives advice for improving managerial and leadership effectiveness. Written by Robert Tanner | Copyrighted Material | All Rights Reserved Worldwide
Read MoreLeading with Questions!
Leaders ask questions. Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. Robert Half Leading with Questions! Good communication skills are essential to effective leadership. Leadership communication is more than setting direction and inspiring others through one’s words, however. It is equally about asking the right questions of knowledgeable people to…
Read MorePeople Skills: Not More Of That “Touchy-Feely” Stuff!
Organizational development efforts that involve improving people skills often bring resistance. The raised eyebrows, folded arms, stiff half smile or other skeptical body language of doubting managers say the following: Not more of that touchy-feely stuff! Resistance and skepticism come with the territory, however. HR professionals, consultants and trainers frequently have to address this resistance before meaningful…
Read MoreLike Salmon, Leaders Swim Upstream!
If you are going to have ideas ahead of the times, you will have to get used to living with the fact that most people are going to believe you are in the wrong! Bruce Lloyd I love this quote because it is a powerful reminder that leadership is not easy. The basic goal of…
Read MoreWhat Employees Want In Difficult Economic Times
We all know that the downturns in the economy affect the entire country. For organizational leaders and operational managers, it makes their already difficult roles even more complicated. Keeping staff members motivated and managing the organization’s talent pool are particularly tough when over 60% of US firms have taken four or more cost saving actions. This statistic…
Read MoreSeventy Five Percent of New Executives Lack Interpersonal Skills
A study by the Institute for Executive Development and Alexcel showed 75% of newly hired executives are having trouble with interpersonal skills (the ability to build relationships, collaborate, and influence others). A troubling finding of the study is that many of these executives had both strong technical skills and years of previous management experience and yet…
Read More