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Getting the Answers You Need: Asking Questions Effectively

Leaders need to be able to discover what’s really going on in their organizations and identify solutions to solve problems facing the company. Whether you are a senior manager, a department head, or a team leader, if you know how to ask good questions and then listen carefully to the answers, you will be ahead …

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Five Critical Mistakes that Leaders Should Avoid

People who lead or who aspire to leadership have plenty of available advice about how they should behave as inspiring leaders. However, sometimes we benefit from knowing what behaviors to avoid, and leadership is no exception. Often, well-intentioned leaders may overlook some action or inaction that can derail their leadership effectiveness. One of the challenges …

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Keep your promises, follow up, and follow through: #1 of Five Essential Leadership Behaviors

Leadership today is increasingly about leaders who serve and followers who empower that person to lead them.  Once the leader stops serving, the followers may cease to empower or recognized that person as their leader.  The result is wasted energy, lower productivity, and damaged morale. What a leader says carries more weight than she sometimes …

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Behave consistently:  #2 of Five Essential Leadership Behaviors

Although leadership styles may vary widely, certain qualities seem particularly appropriate for today’s stressful and dynamic workplace.  We have all worked with the person who is a great mentor on some days, and on others, we are sure that her evil twin has taken her place.  Some people have a difficult time dealing with stress …

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Show that you care about people: # 3 of Five Essential Leadership Behaviors

In a world where history happens before our eyes, and cataclysmic change has become the norm, most people are eager for wise, strong, and compassionate leadership—in our work, our organizations, and our governments. Atlanta-based consultant, Dr. Timothy Irwin points out that most leaders have a need for affiliation.  In other words, they require association with …

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Demonstrate your values with your actions: #5 of Five Essential Leadership Behaviors.

Leaders who possess personal power as well as positional power (power that comes from their job) are able to achieve far greater results than someone we follow just because he is the department head or the vice president. Effective leaders don’t get caught up in a sense of their own importance, and although they may …

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