Your Most Important Leadership Characteristic

Showing leadership requires great content (Content is King) and the courage to promote it. It is only holding down a management position that requires certain people skills. Be sure you understand the difference.

Outsourcing - The Reality on Your Organization - Nu Leadership Series

Examine the impacts of outsourcing on an organization. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

Leadership Basics - How To Achieve And Stay At The Top Of Your Game

There are many ways to achieve success in life but not all of them will sustain that success. Learn how you can build your success on a bedrock so that it will last for your entire lifetime.

Leadership - Be The Person You Were Meant to Be

Do you want to reach your dreams? Become the person you were meant to become? Then read this and see the steps it takes to achieve your dreams of a new tomorrow. Success is possible and these principles work - if you do!

How To Be An Effective Leader In The Workplace - Part 5

Shares tips on key ingredients to successfully leading a team. This is part of a series on effective leadership.

Servant Leadership - Serving The Needs Of Employees

Servant leadership means serving the needs of followers or employees. It is a good idea in so far as it encourages leaders to be less self-serving. Leaders who put their own needs first set a poor example for employees. However, we can't overlook the fact that leaders must consider the needs of shareholders and customers first and that this can run counter to the needs of employees. Hence, servant leadership is not such a great idea as its fans make out.

Leaders, Losing Political Confidence - Nu Leadership Series

Examine the threat of Americans losing confidence in their political leaders. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

Are There Any Born Leaders?

There is a popular, simple answer to the question of whether leaders are born or made and it is that everyone can learn to be a leader. But this simplistic answer is not very helpful or realistic and we need to develop a sharper understanding of what it means to show leadership to move beyond this confusion.

How To Plan And Prepare For An Effective Appraisal

Both parties should prepare for an appraisal meeting beforehand if a successful outcome is to be delivered - as with most things in life the quality of the planning and preparation will certainly affect the quality of the final outcome.

Why Our Concept Of Leadership Needs To Change

Leadership theory needs to change to be better aligned with our digital age where knowledge is power, not position or personality. Historically, leadership has always been about showing the way for others, providing direction. We have lost sight of this basic idea and need to get back to it.

Are Good Leaders Born or Made?

Many people believe that great leaders are born and can't be trained. Apparently we have to possess some innate capacity to inspire others to assume leadership? But is that entirely right?

What Masquerades as Leadership (but is Not)

In trying to understand leadership, it is a good idea to take a brief look at some negative motivational techniques so that we understand what leadership is not. This list is by no means comprehensive; but it does include some of the most common offences:

To Be A Leader

I have some thoughts on what it takes to be a leader in general. No puns intended for general as in an army general but it was meant generically. Anyway, being a leader fully involves paradoxes as you will get to see in this article.

Masters of Distraction

We've all met them, the individual who struggles with change, unrealistic workloads and challenging staff. Life affects them. They are stressed, hurried and masters at distracting everything away from them.