Today I’m asking and answering a paradoxical question: How important are leaders? And the answer will help all of us to be better leaders. Tweet it Out: Remember that, while you are important, leadership isn’t about you at all. @KevinEikenberry
Because you are reading these words, I am confident you are a believer in ongoing learning and development for yourself and those you lead. So you may find it hard to understand why your team members dread the training that you make available to them. Many leaders who have attended my leadership training courses through
Hiring is stressful, especially when you’ve never done it before. Hire the wrong person and you can cost yourself and your organization time and money. However, “when you adopt proven hiring strategies, you can retain a steady flow of talent to fill open job positions and replace underperforming employees quickly. And when your hiring is
This is a guest post by Nat Greene, author of Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem-Solvers Business leaders face a constant burden in their organizations: They have too many problems to solve and not enough resources to solve all of them. A good prioritization system is critical for any business leader, and our
You are several weeks or even months into your new leadership position, and you are struggling. You can’t figure out why, but you don’t feel like a leader (or your employees don’t treat you like one), and each day brings challenges that you weren’t quite expecting when you accepted the promotion. If that is the case,
By Jaimy Ford, business writer and editor. Having high expectations is certainly not a bad thing. However, when high expectations translate into nitpicking, it is a problem. When you or your employees are detailed-obsessed perfectionists, it puts unrealistic demands on everyone else, it wastes time, slows progress and leaves people feeling overwhelmed, annoyed or even
In my podcast, I play a game with my guests. While I will prepare them in advance for the conversation, giving them typical questions or topics that we’ll discuss, I also play on their spontaneity, giving them one word and asking them to tell me what comes to mind immediately. I believe there is a
By: Mark Miller Most leaders pride themselves on being effective problem-solvers, but sometimes our best efforts fall short. Do you ever wonder what causes some problem-solving efforts to fail? There are several usual suspects… Unclear problem identification, failure to identify the real root cause(s) of the situation, lack of creativity once we move to the
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