Your Integrity Counts, Leader - Nu Leadership Series

Examine how integrity is a key ingredient for today’s leaders. What’s wrong in America’s organizations? Some people would proclaim we need more honest leaders at every level of management. Why should a leader be honest anyway? I theorize if he or she wants to be legitimate with followers, they need integrity. With this said...

How We Relate Maslow's Theory To Induction

Even though newcomers will have anxiety, they will also be feeling enthusiastic and motivated to do a good job. The main goal of induction is to maintain this enthusiasm and motivation for as long as possible. This will result in more effective performance.

Leadership – Behavior and Conditioning

Do you know what's stopping you? Can you identify your roadblocks to leadership success? It has been said that we all have the power to choose a direction for our life and to become whatever we wish and desire; why then does success elude the great majority of people; why do so many have so little; and why do so many seem so dissatisfied and unhappy?

Formal Leadership – A Simple Yet Complex Concept

Leadership, straight forward simple concepts; easy to understand and implement; improve your leadership skills. Much has been written about the personality characteristics of leaders; and while leaders exhibit a varied range of characteristics there are those characteristics that emerge universally in all leaders such as...

How To Become A Leader

Even if you don't think of yourself as a natural leader, you can probably think of a time when circumstances demanded you demonstrate some leadership skills. Learn how to go on to assume a leadership role in college and beyond.

Why Some Decisions Are Harder Than Others

While some decisions are easy (what to eat for supper) many more are extremely hard. Usually, a hard decision involves greater consequences/implications or, in some cases, a higher level of resource commitment. In reality, not all so-called hard decisions are hard. Some feel harder than others owing to scale:

Why Are Employees so Negative - Nu Leadership Series

Examine why individuals are more cynical about today’s leaders. Learn what can be done. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

Leading by Example

You can lead through your actions and through your words. Your actions speak much louder than what you say. This article looks at some examples of leaders whose actions were different than their words.

Four Dimensions of Leadership

The Heart of Leadership provides a simple and elegant way of thinking about leadership. “Leadership, like the heart, receives input, ensures that it is enriched and focused, and then orchestrates functional and energetic flows out to the body of the organization or enterprise.

Leadership - Instinctive or Learned

Leadership begins with YOU, driven by your beliefs and your values

Which Star Are You Worshipping?

Have you noticed the plethora of TV shows looking for the next upcoming star? We have Teen Idol, Design Star, and future cooking stars. Everyone is trying to become the next superstar. This is happening in the church too. As a leader, how much star status do you aspire to, and which star are you worshiping?

How To Change Our Behavior and Apply Skills That Don't Feel Comfortable

Sometimes it is difficult to start incorporating the various skills that we have discussed into our behavior. We understand the advantages that they will bring but it is still difficult to break out of that comfort zone and behave in a different manner. So how do we make the change when it feels so uncomfortable? An unlikely source, the movie Groundhog Day, might give us some significant insights.

To Attract Leaders You Must First Become One

When vision is present, and combined with a great product, service, or marketing strategy, leadership has begun and success is going to follow. However, one of the most important facets of leadership is the leader’s ability to execute

Difficult People: 3 Things You Must Know!

Do you know any difficult people? Have you ever lived or worked with a difficult person? Might YOU be a difficult person? In conducting leadership training around the world, many people confide to me they think THEY might be a difficult person. If you're a manager, supervisor, or in any position of leadership, good people skills will help guarantee your success.