Leadership Skills + Strategy
Help Your Employees Be Their Best
If you are seeking to become a high impact, exceptional leader and manager of people, it is important to understand what leadership actually is and the elements of a superior leadership strategy. All of these articles and videos can get you on your way to tapping the wealth of innovation, creativity, motivation and commitment that exists naturally in every person.
Before deciding what you are going to do or how you are going to do it, you need to decide where to go, right? As leaders in the workplace, we set goals....
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Surely "leadership" can be defined many ways, but what is the correct definition for you to be a highly effective leader in the workplace? It is important to know, as the optimal definition of leadership shapes all that you do. Find out more
here.
Employee Engagement is a largely misunderstood concept and one that management often undertakes through “programs” initiated in the workplace when what is really needed is the right environment. Watch the video and read the transcript to discover what to do.
What does good leadership look like? What does bad leadership look like? Find out, along with what you can do to be a good (or great) leader in the workplace.
The question really is: How should we manage people and do we have a choice? As managers, bosses, executives, we actually do not have a choice. Find out why in this is excerpt from Ben Simonton's book,
Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed.
You better believe they are. It is simply that most managers don't take advantage of the inherent capabilities of their people.
Did you know that 70% of employees surveyed in 2011 were not engaged or were actively disengaged from their work? This is an issue that every manager and executive should understand...
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HOW-TO: Leadership Skills + Tools To Develop
A construct to use, answering the question:
“We are managing people to be what exactly?” Find out from Ben and Kimberly in
this video.
Listening is one of the most important leadership skills to develop, if not the most, when managing people. Find out why and how in this video and walk away with immediate steps to take.
If listening is your most important leadership skill, how do you do it most effectively to have the greatest impact on improving the performance of the people you manage? Find out in
this video.
As a follow-up to How to Listen, Ben explains why you don't want to be so quick to give answers as the person in charge. Find out more in this
1-Minute with Ben segment.
This story relates an actual experience I had which demonstrates how to listen to employees correctly and how effective it is.
A procedure for listening to the bearer of bad news and how to
not shoot the messenger taken from Ben Simonton's book,
Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed.
Discover the reasons why most employees are demotivated and get an
understanding of what can be done to turn around such a situation.
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What Not To Do: Even though no manager wants to create low morale, most do exactly that because of how they manage people.
