Something to Wake Up For

Want glowing skin? Sparkling eyes? A youthful bounce to your step? Longevity? Vitality? Find something to wake up for. Be it your own kids or your spouse, your neighborhood or your elected officials, worldwide hunger or inexcusable illiteracy: get involved! It’ll help you put that foot on the floor every morning and encourage you to truly get up and at ‘em.

Personal Leadership - What's Wrong With (Being) You

One of the great frustrations of my working life is the continuing interactions I have with people who will not be themselves. They somehow feel that it is better to be something or someone they are not. When we are not true to ourselves, we do not learn our limitations or our strengths. We are poorer for it and so are the organisations we work in.

Knowledge Management for Leaders

Knowledge Management refers to a range of practices used by many organizations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge for reuse and learning across the organization. This includes Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Transfer, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing, and Knowledge Application.

Servant Leadership: Being Called to LEadership

Paul’s First and Second Letters to Timothy and his Letter to Titus are known as the “Pastoral Letters.” In these “Pastoral Letters” Paul reveals his concern for the future of the church and leadership within the Christian community.

Servent Leadership: Aspiring to Leadership

Paul applies talent management later in the letter when he urges Timothy to accept his call to leadership. “Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.” (1 Timothy 4:14).

Servent Leadership: Shaping Values

Through 1 Timothy, Paul provides his young partner in ministry with qualifications for those called to leadership – Self-discipline, Mentoring, and relationships. He also provides contemporary leaders with resources for success. Paul first gets across the importance of understanding how the leader’s behavior shapes organizational culture – leaders must recognize how their values affect their behavior, which in turns affects the organization.

The Right Time to Think About Your Leadership Legacy

You’re never too young or too old to start thinking about the legacy you'll leave as a leader. Too often, people only think about their legacies at the end of their careers, or when there has been a crisis. But the kind of thinking that follows a crisis is driven by emotion, and, although it is powerful, the behavior changes it inspires are often not sustainable. Engaging in legacy thinking in the absence of a crisis, on the other hand, fosters cleaner insights and results in changes that are sustainable.

Turnaround Strategies

Mastering change and transition can be a daunting task. With the right mental attitude coupled with patience to endure the process, you can successfully be a change master.

Barriers to Wholehearted Leading and Living

Dusty Staub leads uncovers the proper perspective for successful leadership and living. He uncovers the philosophy behind his wholehearted leading and living training method, which is found in his book entitled, The 7 Acts of Courage.

Leadership Skills Development – Five Key Activities of Innovation

Innovation in business requires action, thought and creativity. Innovation is born of five key activities that can be incorporated into business plans. Leadership skills development, in terms of innovation, is about going into an unknown future with clarity of purpose, honed by listening to others and managing the risks.

Leadership, Companionship, and Stewardship Will Bring You Success at Work and Home

This article will help provide you will the basic skills needed as a leader. These simple guidelines will help you become more effective in your business and at home. I hope you enjoy the article and pass it along to your friends.

Born Leaders - Putting People where they are most Effective

While many leadership skills can be taught, it is important to not overlook the natural inborn tendencies that each individual has and force them into leadership positions when they are more effective elsewhere.

Leadership - How to Cultivate your Team's Confidence

One of the most important thing a leader can do is to teach their team how to do things that they didn't think they could do before. This article looks at how to undertake projects in such a way that each one will give your team more confidence for the next.

Leadership - The Link Between a Clear Vision and Efficiency

This article explores the relationship between a clear vision and efficiency in an organization. It looks at where vision comes from when it is not being communicated from the top down.

When Successul Training Fails - And What to Do About It

This article discusses the circumstances of a successful leadership training project that ultimately failed.