Archive for the ‘Leadership Development’ Category
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Why Management Development Programmes Fail
Monday, July 19th, 2010
When I receive an “invitation to tender” or a “request for proposal” for a management development programme I get quite excited. Here’s another opportunity to help an organisation really transform the capability of it’s operational managers, inject more leadership behaviour, unleash a more inspired management population. So, I set about thinking about all those necessary [...]
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Leadership Development – Getting it right
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Leadership development is one of the most popular learning and development topics within the training industry and has been for some time. Leadership development can be a hard area to address if employees recognise the need instead of the leaders themselves. After all telling a senior figure in any organisation that they need further [...]
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Using Q12 to Develop Great Teams
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
I’ve been in the business of developing teams for a fair number of years now and I am pretty sure I’ve seen most forms of team development, team building and whatever else you want to call it. But it’s a very true saying that there are many ways to skin a cat (not that I’d [...]
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7 Things Leaders DO Other Than Issue Directives
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
By Tom Stevens (c)2007 The comments and questions from many of my workshop participants and coaching clients often reveal that their basic concept of leadership is about being in charge – i.e. obtaining a position of power, having the most information, and giving orders. The classic boss. From this viewpoint, effective leadership requires having the [...]
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Twelve Qualities that Make You a Leader
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
What leadership is not: It is not Management. Management is working with and through people and groups to accomplish organizational goals. Leadership is influencing human behaviour, regardless of the goal. A leader is first of all a person who serves people. In order to lead, people need to know that you care about them. You [...]
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The Courage To Be Extraordinary
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker At a recent networking meeting, I had the opportunity to hear Pernille Spiers-Lopez speak. Danish born, Pernille immigrated to the United States about 26 years ago as a young woman. After a few jobs that didn’t pan out for her, [...]
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Can sports psychology improve your performance
Friday, February 13th, 2009
The concept of the Inner Game was developed by Tim Gallwey as a way of helping people to achieve excellence in various sports, e.g. tennis, golf and skiing, and also in music. More recently he has extended his ideas into business and management training, and they are clearly also highly relevant in all learning situations. The concept is quite simple. If we consider tennis, for example, people trying to develop their skills in tennis can spend considerable time concentrating on their ‘Outer Game’, e.g. how to stand, how to hold the racket, how to serve, etc. All this effort can cause considerable anxiety and tension for the player, and as a result performance suffers. By contrast, Gallwey proposes that the secret of success lies in one’s Inner Game, i.e. one’s whole mental approach, and that by progressively refining this, one’s game will be transformed. His approach therefore rests on the close interconnectedness of the way we think and the way we act.
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Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders
Friday, February 13th, 2009
How do we develop tomorrow’s leaders? We are in somewhat unchartered territory with a recession the likes of which we have never experienced. Will the leaders we have today be suitable or appropriate in 2-3 years time? Will we need a different set of characteristics, skill or experiences? Or will it just be more of the same?
I have always liked this article by John Adair and since it’s publishing in 2005 I hadn’t really changed my view on it’s relevance and value in leadership development. But will my view be changed in the future? I want to know what your thoughts are.
Do you think the landscape of leadership development will change much, during or after the recession? If so, what do you think will need to change? Maybe you think things will pretty much be the same and that leadership doesn’t really change much. Let us know your views and we will produce a report highlighting the findings. Enjoy the article!