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Styles & Qualities Of Leaders

What business attributes, qualities or characteristics are commonly identified amongst successful leaders and managers?
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The Difference Between Good And Great Leadership

By Brad Giles

When comparing the results of companies, it's relatively simple to assess tangible differences in a company's performance. But dig a little deeper into the data to try and understand the actual role that leaders have played in any success, along with the quantitative nature of that involvement, and the answers often become less clear. It begs the question, what is the tangible difference between a good leader, and a great leader?

Why Transformative Leadership Supercharges Profitability

By Tony Holmwood

There would be very few leaders in today's fast-paced world who would not want to give their organisation the gains or lift that they instinctively know is possible, through creating a positive or proactive strengths-based, solutions-enabled environment. But to work more effectively as a team, leaders need to first develop themselves. Harvard Business Review states that leadership's first commandment is to know themselves better. That's why self-aware leaders who understand behaviour are transforming businesses and changing the way employees interact.

Are You Aligning Your Leadership Career With What Fuels You?

By Lisa Stephenson

Leaders end up in leadership roles for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes they get there accidentally because they got a tap on the shoulder. Some leaders take on the responsibility because they want the title and salary that goes with it. We appreciate those who work hard on themselves and earn the right to call themselves a leader. Then there are those who were born to show us the way, and being an inspiring and results focused leader is in their DNA. What we know for sure is, regardless of how they got there, they'd better know how to sustain their own energy and focus because no one is coming to do that for them.

Are You Leading From The Front?

By Michelle Gibbings

Every year, thousands of new leadership books hit bookstores. Despite the plethora of reading material and research, the evidence of leadership challenges and failures isn’t hard to spot.

Eight Things Great Leaders Do

By Ken Warren

What do you think is the number one factor that determines a high-performing workplace? A great coffee machine? High rates of pay? The threat of redundancy hanging over everyone's heads? Some recent research by the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, found it was simply the quality of the leadership.

Why Good Leaders Start As Good Followers

By Kylie Wright-Ford

People in leadership roles have the latitude to decide who they want to work with. That's one of the perks. We spend significant numbers of hours each day; creating companies, building things, driving change and hopefully improving the world. Why not spend it with people that are great to be around?

Influence - A Competitive Advantage For CEOs

By Michelle Gibbings

Technological disruption is driving a wave of change so great that the World Economic Forum has termed it the fourth industrial revolution. How we work and live is fundamentally changing. We live in what is now commonly referred to as a VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous.

Pioneering Leadership - A Guide To Leading Through Uncertainty

By Dr. Jason Fox

Almost every leadership, strategy and motivation book on the planet advocates the importance of having a crystal clear goal or vision for the future. However, this is an incredibly flawed position to take.

Why Leaders Need To Be Abundance Thinkers

By Kevin Eikenberry

What we believe about ourselves, our situation and our world drives our thoughts and actions, and therefore has a huge impact on the results we achieve. While this is a profound fact for us as individuals, as a leader, those beliefs (and the resulting thoughts, actions and results) have a significant impact on many others too.

Boosting Your Leadership Creativity

By Aubrey Waren

All of us live every day in the pull of two significant forces. These forces influence our thinking, our behaviours and our performance. They affect our relationships and our sense of achievement. They affect and quickly become an expression of our leadership.

What Leading By Example Really Means

By Kevin Eikenberry

Any discussion of great leaders will include the cliché that the best leaders lead by example. Stated in conversation, everyone will nod and agree. And if you are reflecting personally on the attributes of those you have willingly followed, you will find that common trait too. It seems there is little doubt that we influence others through our actions, especially when we are in a leadership role.

Is Your Business Out Of Control?

By Dr. Vesna Grubacevic

Are you clear about your business vision, direction and goals? Is fear, second guessing and over analysis holding you back from taking action for your business? Do you wish you could regain control of your business?

Leadership Lessons From Sport

By Kevin Eikenberry

Chances are, you will be watching sports soon. Any team sport is more than a chance to relax, eat or spend time with friends. Team sports offer you a leadership learning opportunity.

Four Behaviours Of Strong Leadership

By Aubrey Warren

There are so many things leaders are supposed to do that it can feel overwhelming. You're supposed to be a strategist, a coach, a visionary, a communicator, a general, a motivator, a networker... the list is endless! The reality is that no one can be everything a leader is supposed to be. And there’ll always be something else we discover leaders should be doing.

You Have Leaders, But Do You Have Leadership?

By Karen Schmidt

Leaders and leadership are not the same thing, even though the two terms are often used interchangeably. In order for your organisation to grow, you need both. So what is leadership, why does it matter and how do you help the people who run your organisation to develop this important skill set?

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