Leadership

Leadership In Management

I was at a conference this week and one of the many great speakers I heard was Ken Blanchard. For anyone who may not know who Ken Blanchard is, he is one of the premier leadership gurus and has decades of experience teaching and writing about leadership and how management tactics can impact employee performance. [...]

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How Can Leadership Help with Work Life Balance?

Work life balance has been a movement over the last 25 years. With corporate downsizing, increased competition, increased responsibilities and organizations trying to achieve more with less, the employees are feeling the crunch. Employees are the ones carrying the burden of getting it done. Feeling the pressure to keep their job and climb the corporate [...]

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Employee Fraud

Employee fraud costs businesses billions of dollars every year.  According to a 2008 report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), 994 billion dollars is lost every year to employee fraud.  This equates to businesses losing 2.7 billion dollars every day. Fraud Definition: “deceit, trickery, sharp practice or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or [...]

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What is credibility?

Credibility is one of those pet peeves of mine.  Being a credible person or business should be a priority for all of us.  To be credible means “capable of being believed; believable, worthy of belief or confidence; trustworthy”. While being credible is important to all aspects of business, following are some areas of credibility that [...]

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Importance of Employee Recognition

Employees need to feel valued and appreciated.  When employees give their lives to an organization, they feel part of a team and family.  They spend more time with their work team than perhaps many other relationships in their lives. Recognizing the contributions employees make to an organization helps solidify these relationships and fosters employee loyalty to [...]

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Coaching as a Leadership Competency

Coaching is a training model used to develop employee skills, performance and career.  Professional coaching can help develop employees on an individual basis. We all come from different backgrounds and have differing frames of references.  Some people are taught professionalism growing up and others have no exposure to proper business protocol or etiquette.  This is [...]

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What are 5 advantages of professional networking?

Networking means to form relationships with others in like or related fields that help to expand ones’ effectiveness in an organization or industry. A key element to effective networking is to make yourself known.  The premise being that the more people you meet, the more people there will be to get to know you and [...]

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What 8 Traits To Look for in a Mentor?

We’ve all heard the term ‘mentor’ and the importance of mentoring as we develop professionally in our career. Mentoring has been around for a long time, specifically in academic environments where teaching is a part of the business model. So what is a mentor? A mentor is someone who understands the work environment and offers advice [...]

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Characteristics of Effective Leadership

Leadership means “the ability to lead; an act or instance of leading; guidance; direction”.  The term leadership is used in many forms to describe many things but is ultimately the act of leading people in a certain direction. Following are some leadership characteristics that successful leaders demonstrate and develop through their own professional journey. Influencer [...]

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