Becoming An Effective Executive

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New Leadership For A New War

PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 1465===========================================Summary: The autho. . .

Stop Sickies and Make People Happy At Work

Stop Sickies and Make People Happy At Work If you're an employer or a manager then work place absenceis costing you money, inconvenience, and upsetting yourcustomers. And as we all know, not all days taken off workare due to genuine sickness. Many employees "take a sickie"because their morale is low and they just don't like orcan't do their work.The challenge for employers and managers is to ma. . .

Discover The Coach Within You

Discover The Coach Within YouOne of the three basic roles of leadership is the coach or mentor. The best boss is often the best coach. (See: http://tlc-leadership.com/the_three_faces_of_leadership) In sports the coach is very conscious of his role but in the business world most coaching is unconscious or even accidental.Just as many a dad learned to coach by jumping in with his son's baseball o. . .

Brainstorming Secrets

Have you been in a "brainstorming" session where each person just defended their own ideas? Worse is when people don't suggest ideas at all, for fear they'll be attacked. That's no way to brainstorm. Brainstorming is using the power of many minds, and ideas should flow freely and trigger other ideas. How do you make that happen?The Key To Good BrainstormingYou have to have a good leader to have. . .

Five Things Smart Leaders Do to Lower the Barriers to Change

Smart leaders understand that they dont make a change happen. They recognize that the people in their organization do the work, change behaviors, and, ultimately, make the change happen. They understand that their role is to make the change meaningful and easier to accept. Smart leaders facilitate change.Lets look at five things smart leaders do to lower the barriers to change.1. They sell . . .

Who do you talk to?

Many of you reading this will be running businesses, or parts of, whether they are your own or not. This means that you have many things to deal with on a day to day basis plus trying to do the long-term thinking needed to lead and run the business. You probably find yourself being very busy, possibly working long hours and, if you are honest, being reactive most of the time. When do you get (. . .

Communicating When A Crisis Strikes

How would you handle communication if your business or practice got into a crisis situation?I was pleasantly surprised when my Internet service provider responded competently and quickly to a technical crisis. And, we can learn to communicate more effectively by studying its response.The crisis occurred when hackers attacked its system at the same time that the company was upgrading its systems. . .

What is Your Leadership Style?

There are countless numbers and types of leadership styles in organizations today. Unfortunately, many leaders today are ineffective because they are not motivators or because they have a warped idea about their role and purpose. As such, workers in these organizations suffer from inadequate leadership and likely have no energy, motivation or loyalty to the organization. Leaders who honestly ap. . .

7 Steps to Launching a Top Media Relations Program

7 Steps to Launching a Top Media Relations ProgramNewspapers need to fill real estate in the form of column inches, and you need media coverage. If handled correctly, "this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship."A top-notch media relations program is essential for every business and organization. Most, however, never even bother to try launching a successful medial relations program.. . .

Turnaround or Terminate? How to Deal with "Problem"

Do you struggle with a "problem" employee? If so, join thecrowd! Many of my coaching clients - businesses owners ormanagers - tear their hair out over one or more toxicemployees. In our business environment, we tend to recreatethe dynamics of the family we grew up, so no wonder problemsdevelop. It's amazing often a business owner or manager will endure a"problem" employee, unable to help the em. . .

Be Proactive - Covey Habit #1 -part a

The first Covey Habit is to "be proactive".Now when I first heard this I thought this basically meant "do stuff". Proactive people to me were people who simply did things rather than sit and watch, they took the initiative. So to me this was going to be an easy one, and being the first I thought it should be.WRONG!Proactivity here is about choice. It's about taking the initiative to stop - thi. . .

Manage Communication to Add Value

Management guru Tom Peters says white collar workers and managers in functional departments need to protect their futures.They have to learn "the difference between doing totally acceptable work and creating very new value...." he notes, in an Industry Week article. In other words, people in departments like Human Resources and Finance need to become entrepreneurial.With that in mind, let's loo. . .

Mission and Vision Statements - Foundational to Successful Change

Successful leaders and organizations are vision driven rather than problem driven. Some management tools fail to affect any change; but here is one that will, if properly implemented.Mission and Vision Statements have been crafted by organizations for years. The attention to mission and vision is warranted, as studies indicate that organizations that have Mission and Vision Statements quite sim. . .

The Cost of Stress the Need to Monitor and Manage the Risks!

How much attention is paid to one of the biggest underlying risk factors within an organisation the effects of stress? Not only are there a lot of potential risks arising from the spread of stress within an organisation, it costs them a great deal of money!!Let us start with looking at some hard-nosed numbers (based on the UK.). The CBI estimate that there is a cost of 4bn per annum to indu. . .

Essence of Team Work

Essence of Team work What is Teamwork?Larger, ambitious goals requiring unique tailor made approaches usually require that people work together with other people in a team and not as individual. Companies today want people who are team player, people who are able to get along with their colleagues and work together in a cohesive group to achieve the organizational targets sacrificing their own . . .

Employee Appreciation at it's Best

For that special client or that special secretary, a corporate gift basket is a great way to make someone feel important. From making a good first impression, to thanking a client and letting them know that their business matters, to rewarding your employees for a job well done, gift giving is important in the corporate world.Corporate gift giving can be tricky, with some customers or business . . .

The proper care and feeding of revenue partners

Youve had a couple dinners and a few phone conversations; there is chemistry and a further relationship looks promising. But, how do you really know if that next step is worth taking? Advanced Internet Technologies has talked to, literally, hundreds of companies about partnership possibilities. By partnerships, I mean the type that produce revenue, not vendor agreements. As the IT industry mat. . .

Breaking the Growth Barriers in the IT and Software Sectors

There's nothing automatic about corporate growth, particularly in the information technology industry; "build it and they will come" is a myth. In the real world there is either a structured, process-driven growth cycle, or stagnation and stagnation IS automatic. Inherent to growth cycles are barriers, real-world business challenges that put some software companies out of business and spur o. . .

Two critical success factors in an ITIL Implementation

Any IT manager who wants to pursue the IT Service Management journey by implementing the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) needs to understand two very important factors well in advance.The first factor i is to have dedicated, trained and committed process owners.If you want to have a successful Incident Management process which is under continuous improvement, you will nee. . .