When Faced with a Problem, Create Opportunities
Do you aim to be a problem-focused leader or an opportunity-focused leader? Many work environments place a premium on leaders with critical thinking and problem-solving skills. However, that premium often places too much emphasis on being critical…
What is Essential to Leadership?
Imagine that the organization you work for is charged with developing a leadership training program that was built around the essentials that all leaders must know. What would you include? The list of what we expect leaders to know and do is long…
Confidently Humble
Any person in a leadership position needs to have and demonstrate confidence. People look to their leaders to make decisions, lead change and make tough calls and that requires confidence. But the best leaders also have a value that is less talked…
New Leaders and the Realities of the Leadership Role
For new leaders, in particular, setbacks are inevitable. In the same way, people without children can’t really know what it’s like to have kids until they do, you can’t really know what it’s like to be a leader until you actually lead. Even…
The Impact of Organizational Culture
Webster’s dictionary defines the word culture as the integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thought, speech, action, and artifacts and depends on man’s capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations…
