Preparing Leaders through Humanities and Business Degrees
How do you become a leader of people? The best training for up-and-coming leaders is a degree in the humanities and a degree in business.
Leadership
Authenticity At Work: Is There Such A Thing As 'Too Real?'
Many people are tempted to adopt a persona at work. But colleagues can smell phoniness, which strains relationships–not to mention that when you adopt a "work persona," you're leaving many of your most valuable talents at the door.
The Progression and Development of Superior Leaders
The best leaders are willing to listen to their employees. They should accept ideas, provide funding, follow up and give credit to employees’ suggestions.
Want To Get More Innovative With Your Team? Here’s Where You Need To Focus.
Building an innovation mindset within a team is similar to building a muscle; it needs practice and more practice. "Visual diversity" is no longer enough, "cognitive diversity" is the game-changer for high performing organizations.
What Is Executive Presence and How Do You Get It?
Executive presence isn’t something you can simply decide to have one day if you don’t have it already. It needs to be cultivated. But I don’t recommend focusing on whether you have it or not as that could come off contrived.
Five Ways To Lead A Group To Greatness
Leaders who acknowledge failure, look past it without trying to lay blame, and choose to learn from it gain a powerful relationship to failure. As Winston Churchill said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Not Ready For Prime Time? Tips On Your New Leadership Role
Effective leadership requires hard work that’s often exhausting and repetitive. It can stretch your emotional and intellectual dexterity. Then there’s that part about needing to make tough decisions that are sure to upset some of the people you’re trying to lead.
The Business Case for Executive Assessment
It’s often taken for granted that organizations need to identify and develop their talented employees, but a surprising percentage of them struggle to do so. In the case of executive-level talent, this failure has serious consequences.
Avoiding Team Conflict Can Be a Grave Mistake: Four Strategies For Healthy Team Conflict
One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is avoiding team conflict. Yes, conflict may feel uncomfortable, but that tension is often a very natural if not necessary part of real progress and team bonding.