Leadership
Business scenarios: the most important leadership strengths
The most important leadership strengths for four different business scenarios A politician achieves mass popularity due to a strong vision of the future, but fails to deliver on key promises. A football coach leads a struggling team to victory, but gets fired the next season as the team can’t maintain their winning streak. A manager…
Read MoreCultivate a visionary leadership on a daily basis
How to cultivate visionary leadership on a daily basis? ‘You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.’ – Alvin Toffler As leaders, sometimes we can become so busy with our heads down, getting things done, that we can forget to…
Read MoreHow to bridge the leadership gap
When I think about the recent spate of leadership changes in some high profile cases, it makes me wonder: how effectively are organisations mapping their leadership strategies to the contextual environment that we are experiencing in Australia and New Zealand right now? By that I mean share prices going up and down, trading environments changing…
Read MoreThe impact of gender on leadership styles
Gender and its affect on leadership is a continual talking point amongst our clients. Reviewing the characteristics of male and female emerging leaders has revealed some interesting insights. All percentages and statistics in this infographic are sourced from the data for 2013 and 2014 relating to Identifying Tomorrow’s Leaders Today: Determining The Differences That Matter.…
Read MoreLeadership behaviours: risk of derailing
The high risk of derailing leadership behaviours Have you ever worked for a “bulldozer” boss? Someone so focused on results that they leave a path of anxiety and intimidation in their wake? Or how about a “micro-manager” who leaves their imprint on every office matter while still complaining they have too much work to do?…
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