I often look at successful tweeter Steve Keating’s words of wisdom and found a whole stream of inspirational tweets at the end of June 2011. I thought a few of his quotes would be a good start for the financial year 2011-12. Here they are: “Excellence is an attitude.” “No title or position in the… Continue reading »
Apr
29
Why Being Able to Speak Effectively in Public is so Important
As the pressure to stand out in a more competitive and globalized world increases the need to be able to speak confidently in public is becoming more central to our success. For all of us it is important to be able convince others of the validity of our point of view, to sell our ideas,… Continue reading »
Mar
30
Empowerment: The Development of an Empowered Workforce
The concept of staff empowerment is often spoken about and even claimed as policy by many organizations. It seems from experience and much I have read that the methods and requirements for implementation of successful staff empowerment programs are often badly misunderstood and/or mismanaged. I found this five stage model some time ago however cannot… Continue reading »
Feb
06
Are You Leading or Just Managing?
Being a leader-manager can be an “iffy” proposition. Four “ifs” to begin with. If you are controlling your work group, rarely leave your department, constantly micro manage all processes to check what the staff are up to, constantly defining what a ‘good’ job looks like, stipulating standards, insisting on a rigorous regime of task methodology… Continue reading »
May
22
SO WHAT ELSE CAN ANTS TELL US ABOUT LEADING & MANAGING Part 2
Recent economic woes must teach us all that the quality of our management and in many cases the weak and unethical behavior of some of our renowned business leaders means we need to get back to some basic principles. Some basics of business and some more ant antics… OUTPUT QUALITY. Another ant variety, ‘Rattue’, can… Continue reading »
May
21
ANTS CAN TEACH US A LOT ABOUT LEADING & MANAGING Part One
Who cares what ants do… I’m busy with crocodiles… (‘When you’re up to your backside in crocodiles its hard to focus on the fact that your original mission was to drain the swamp’) So what can we learn from ants? Ants have been around for about 100 million years and in their terms we are… Continue reading »
Feb
23
WHAT DO MANAGERS DO AND DO YOU REALLY WANT TO BE A MANAGER?
Many individuals I train are making the move from technical expertise (engineers) to becoming mangers where their technical powerbase will be less relevant. This involves a large amount of retraining and education and for some it’s a very daunting decision. So what do managers do and what are the pros and cons of taking a… Continue reading »
Dec
11
Leadership: A Conductors Perspective
A great leadership video that is also wonderful to watch. If you can’t learn a lot from this, best not consider leadership as your role. Ric (orglearn) **Link for direct page viewers return to main career success blog to check out other posts! While you’re here take a look at the free blank resume form… Continue reading »
Oct
23
Twenty Habits to Cultivate to be an Effective Leader Manager
A few thought starters to help us function more effectively as leaders and mangers: HABIT 1: Delegate don’t abdicate… when giving tasks to ‘subordinate’ staff, we need to maintain responsibility for the result (the thing many of us want the least), whilst giving away our authority (the thing many of us want the most). In… Continue reading »
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