Best Leadership Articles

We like to believe that there are no born leaders and it is true that no one is born with all it takes to lead, but as with creativity, some people are born with more potential to lead than others. Do you have that potential?

Leaders are always looking for people who are committed. Learn a leadership secret about how you can attract more committed people than you can handle.

This article is about the qualities required of someone if they are to assume the mantle of leadership in an organisation. It is about having a sense of purpose, a vision for the future and an ability to harness the abilities of others in order to achieve a stated goal. It entails being respected by ones subordinates for ones abilities, being trusted and having their confidence. Being a good communicator and having sound judgement are essential.

Leadership covers a vast range of specific skill-sets, almost all of which come under the heading of what trainers call "far transfer training." That means that you have to go all the way back and use them on the job to learn them completely. With that in mind, here are my recommendations for choosing a good program for you. Specific Skill Areas Forget about those general leadership workshops that cover everything. Instead, pick a program that will develop a specific sk...

Effectiveness is the capacity to produce an intended result. When asked, most people say they are not manifesting their full potential. They have more talent than effectiveness. The art of coaching is to see what inhibits effectiveness in each client. I will touch on some of the classic inhibitors I have found and what to do about them. Ineffective people are reluctant to specify their intended result. Once intention is specified, of course, the possibility of failure is m...

Are you like the Marines and want a few good men and women, or you are looking for casts of thousands? Do you want top talent at all levels or will you accept candidates based on the mirror-fogging test? Believe it or not some businesses are actually driving away the very top candidates they desire to recruit because of their hiring and recruiting methods. One of the feelings is that the selection process sets the tone for the work experience. DRIVING AWAY TALENTED CAND...

The CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation once acknowledged to me that at his core he didn?t know who he was or what he?s really about. This kind of self-forgetting is surprisingly common. My colleagues and I work with people who have achieved great success by dedicating themselves to giving their employees and customers what they need to flourish. Yet, when asked at the most personal level, they find it difficult to say clearly what they want for themselves. We forget...

Clients often ask me for tools and techniques to make them more effective in working with people. In a coaching session, whenever we discuss and practice how to handle a particular person or situation, we usually end up recognizing that the connection is the most important thing. Even in the tensest engagement, if we find a way to establish rapport with the other, the rest of the communication will flow from that. Great tools and technique have their place but without rapport...

This month?s wealth article explores how profitable business owners can benefit, due to concessions in the finance act of 2004. Once your business is on track and delivering profits, the most important consideration is how to maximise you and your family?s future income for you from these profits. This article looks at a topic that has grabbed much media attention recently ? using your profits to invest in a company pension, which uses property as the investment vehicle. A Pe...

My mentor always told me he would rather people were either hot or cold toward him, not lukewarm. You cannot do much with lukewarm response, but you can use challenge and opposition to advantage. Some weeks the same topic keeps coming up in a number of different coaching sessions. Last week it was leaders learning, sometimes the hard way, how to meet opposition from a colleague. The key word here is ?meet.? Most people get into trouble by failing to meet what the person...