Category: Leadership
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The Benefits of Being Mentored
In 2017, I deliberately engaged in being mentored for both personal and business development. My Mentor is a well-respected business leader and church planter who provided detailed insight and encouragement, and helped me to better understand and focus on my strengths. The structure of the program provided regular contact with a group of like-minded and…
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Tried and True Leadership Principles
I don’t usually support or encourage the magic lists of things to do, the “silver bullets” that by following the trail accomplishes or achieves the unrealistic. Lists such as these tend to provide a false sense of security, of being able solve all of the issues if I can just make them work. As an analytical person I tend to follow a step…
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Communication – Critical to business success
I read a recent article in SIA’s OHS Professional magazine regarding communicating workplace safety. The article was generally good, although the author missed a key point. I appreciate that the article was for a safety magazine, however communication goes across all aspects of the business. I have found in general there are two critical requirements within any…
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Communication – Employee Engagement
I shared in my last blog about communication in the workplace and how critical it is to business success. About the same time that I wrote this, I was watching and listening to the attached video from Marshal Goldsmith about engagement with employees. Many of the issues and insights he shares I have seen regularly in many of the…
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Building Trust and Building Success
These 3 simple keys are critical in ensuring success in a business. All of them require an effort for most managers and leaders; however the application of these 3 things will genuinely build stronger work teams and organisations. http://www.inc.com/ben-peterson/3-keys-to-creating-a-culture-of-trust.html?cid=em01014week04e
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Remarkable Leadership Qualities
Leadership is more than managing people or projects, it is more than a title. Leadership is about caring for and talking with people, making the right (and sometimes difficult) decisions, being accountable, knowing their limitations, and pushing others to achieve or go beyond the every day. I have worked with many managers who have been…