People Are The Heart Of Your Organization

Do you let your people express their thoughts about the roles and responsibilities they have in your organisation? Don't just take it for granted that everything's fine because no one complains. Orga...

Leadership Quality Through Kindness

With the advent of a more troubled world, the intense focus of the corporate conglomerates on profits, the speed of communication, other technologies and a more permissive society we have drifted to a time of a created urgency. The perception of human value has diminished and with it, loyalty.

Leadership, Genuine, Meaningful and Productive

One of the best lessons I have learned is the impact and importance of leadership. It is so easy to identify dysfunctional leadership in a company (or of a governmental entity!). Many times, the common misconception is that the executives in the “ivory tower” sit around and relax, while the “workers” do all the work.

Effective Brainstorming

Most managers simply herd some people in a room with a flip chart and call it a brainstorming session. Yet there is a definite process that maximizes the size and quality of the idea pool. While there are hundreds of valid techniques for doing this, below are just some of the important concepts leaders should consider.

Grow Your Staff into a Team of Creative Problem Solvers

Do your employees come to you with situations they don’t know how to handle? When they do, they are looking to you to give them the solution to the problem. But most of the time they could come up with creative solutions on their own. Find out how you can help them be more creative and more proactive in finding solutions to their business situations.

Book Summary: The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player

This Article is based on the following book: The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player Becoming The Kind of Person Every Team Wants By John C. Maxwell, author of 'The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership' Published by Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2001 ISBN: 0785274359 156 pages

How the P.R.I.D.E. Team Changed my Call Center

Sometimes you find that one simple change, can change everything. That is exactly what happened to me when I was faced with a huge performance challenge. I discovered a simple system that was so easy to implement but had such powerful results.

Building Teams

Young minds are quite easy to shape. International Terrorist recruiters know this and have an abundant source of young men and women to pick from. They use simple brain washing tactics to do this. The United States also has a huge source of young people at its colleges and universities with young open minds, open to both good or evil.

Recruiting Government Workers As Franchisees

Many believe a leaner government promotes better freedoms with respect to free enterprise and the right to free contract. Leaner governments make fewer laws because of their enforcement capabilities. Under our current direction with high government debt loads and low unemployment we will begin to see a downsizing of government at every level.

Conflict Is Cool

Having experienced more than my fair share of conflict over the years, from street fighting to more sophisticated law cases, I have become an avid student of the subject of Conflict Resolution. My bookshelves are full of literature on the topic and the public library is thinking of charging me for overuse.

Franchisor Award Programs; Ideas and Innovation

Franchisors should also be heavy on the award side of motivational material. Award certificates and plaques should be given out to franchisees who perform above expectations. Each franchisor needs to take a look at their business model and find ways to best motivate the team.

Motivation - Don't Make Your Team Uncomfortable

There's always going to be members of your team who are really keen to spend time with you and others who are less so. However, you must spend time with everyone - more with some and less with others.

High Performing Teams: 10 Things You Want To Know About Building A High Performing Team

Learn 10 things that distinguish a high performing team from the usual marginally effective working group. What kind of team are you a part of? What kind of team have you created as a leader?

How Leaders Unlock Potential in Teams

Leaders are faced with unlocking the potential in the people that they lead and motivating the individual is a key part of this process. Motivation is not something that is done to an individual as they already posses it. What a leader does, to benefit the whole team, is to release, or unlock, it

Story Telling With a Purpose

Strategically-used stories can help us communicate more effectively by adding emotion or context, providing proof, or giving us a chance to poke fun at ourselves.