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What Six Sigma Black Belts Must Know By : Tony Jacowski Black Belts need to have basic skills in order to implement a Six Sigma project effectively. Here are some things that all Black Belts must know. FAITH vs. VISION By : Michael Skye Visionary leaders and entrepreneurs make "the impossible" happen, often succeeding where others fail. This article details a subtle shift in thinking required for visionary leadership in today's world. What Bus Are You On? By : Michael Skye Visionary leaders and entrepreneurs make "the impossible" happen, often succeeding where others fail. This article details a subtle shift in thinking required for visionary leadership in today's world. Leading In Times of Uncertainty By : John C. Maxwell When do the people need a leader the most? The answer is, in times of uncertainty. When is it the most difficult to lead people? The answer is, in times of uncertainty. Leadership Practices in Times of Crisis By : John C. Maxwell Sometimes you have a minute to make a difference, sometimes you have a few seconds to make a difference. If you are lucky, you have an hour or maybe a day or two to make a difference. Time crunches in on you when a disaster like the terrorist attack on September 11th strikes. At that time, leadership emerges. Whether it is your greatest hour or your worst is up to you. Dream vs. Vision: A Mind-Shift For Visionary Leaders By : Michael Skye Visionary leaders and entrepreneurs make "the impossible" happen, often succeeding where others fail. They have more than big ideas and dreams, they have vision. This article details the distinction between dreams and vision, and how one can live as a visionary. An Effective Leader - Would You Like To Be One? By : Regina Maniam Have you felt the need for an effective leader in your work place? Have you felt frustrated that there are a lot of activities and yet nothing seems to get accomplished? Targets and objectives are forgotten. Is it then time for you to do something about it? Key Targets For Business Coaches By : Kris Koonar If you are passionate about helping business-owners profit from their maximum potential, you can consider becoming a business coach. How to Become an Ideal Leader By : Carl Hoffman Most people are content just to stand around listening for orders. And it isn't unusual to adopt a follow-the-leader mentality. But maybe, somewhere inside of you, you feel the desire to make things happen,to be the head, not the tail. Then maybe leadership just suits you fine. Small Business Organizational Management By : Luis Luarca This article briefly discusses a basic understanding of organizational management for small business owners and the importance of understanding the complexities of managing a business. COMPROMISE vs. SACRIFICE By : Michael Skye Visionary leaders and entrepreneurs make "the impossible" happen, often succeeding where others fail. This article details a subtle shift in thinking required for visionary leadership in today's world. Positionary vs. Visionary: A "Mind Shift" for Leaders and Change Agents By : Michael Skye Visionary leaders and entrepreneurs make "the impossible" happen, often succeeding where others fail. This article details a subtle shift in thinking required for visionary leadership in today's world. Position vs Stand: A "Mind Shift" for Visionary Leaders By : Michael Skye Visionary leaders and entrepreneurs make "the impossible" happen, often succeeding where others fail. This article details a subtle shift in thinking required for visionary leadership in today's world. Getting Creative: Finding Great Ideas When You Need One! Part Two By : Ed Oakley Creative tools to help generate ideas. Greatness vs. Goodness: A "Mind-Shift" for Visionary Leaders By : Michael Skye Visionary leaders and entrepreneurs make "the impossible" happen, often succeeding where others fail. This article details a subtle shift in thinking required for visionary leadership in today's world. The Art of Encouragement By : Paula Switzer Have you ever stopped to think about those encouragers in your own life who helped you along the way? Learn why encouragement is critical to relationships, both personally and professionally. 3 Compelling Rewards for Being a Coach /Consultant By : Kris Koonar Those who like to interact with different people and work towards the improvement of mankind in general, find the role of a business coach very satisfying and fulfilling. Leading with Integrity By : Mark Shead There are no shortcuts to leadership. This article talks about how to lead with integrity and develop a deep foundation for the future How to Be an Ideal Leader for Your Business By : Leon Edward How to develop as a leader in business, the responsibilities and how to continuosly improve as a leader are discussed. Better learn the importance of conveying your company vision, goals for your business and steps to gain confidence from employees 8 Tips To Conducting Business Meetings Confidently By : Regina Maniam Have you been in a business meeting where the objectives are not clear, you are not sure why you were invited and it seems a sheer waste of time? Read this article to know 8 tips that will help you to prepare and conduct effective meetings. Give me a break! 6 key Difficulties for New Managers By : Marcia Granger Often, employees are promoted to supervision because of their strong technical expertise -- expertise in building a product or providing a service. Suddenly, the new supervisor is now charged with a whole new range of responsibilities, many of which have little to do with technical expertise. Achieve Positive Attitude Through Self-Discipline By : Pj Germain Attitude is defined as the way you dedicate yourself to the way you think. Think negative or think positive is a choice and a process. Keeping A Positive Attitude By : Pj Germain While life can bring challenging times, having a positive attitude often can have real mind and body benefits. Generating Quantum Leaps By Doing the Right Things By : Pj Germain Our strengths often become weaknesses because we rely on them too heavily, habitually doing what we do best instead of seeking the best things to do. A Personal Time Choice By : Pj Germain Our personal experiences with time often force us to draw sets of conclusions which seem to contradict each other. They set up a paradox in which it is difficult to see how both conclusions can be true. Live An Enthusiastical Life! By : Pj Germain Without enthusiasm, all the skills and techniques you learn will not be as effective as they could be. On the other hand, if someone is enthusiastic, it is an energy builder. They can sell their ideas and ultimately accomplish more than sheer intellect. The Discipline of Innovation By : Pj Germain Most innovations result from a conscious, purposeful search for opportunities within the company and the industry as well as the larger social and intellectual environment. A successful innovation may come from pulling together different strands of knowledge, recognizing an underlying theme in public perception, or extracting new insights from failure. Leadership - Leading through Example By : Mark Shead What you say is important, but what you do is going to determine how well you lead. Here are two examples of people whose actions spoke louder than their words. Communicating Goals By : Mark Shead Goals are an important part of any organization. The skilled leader recognizes the need to convey clear goals to employees in order to keep everyone working toward the same thing. Achieving Goals through Management Systems By : Mark Shead Management systems will allow you to measure and encourage appropriate behavior. However without thoughtful consideration you may end up measuring the wrong thing and create just as many problems as you solve. Are You Ready To Be Promoted? By : Paul Megan 8 simple steps can move the odds of your promotion significantly in your favor! Success Through Recognizing Failure By : Mark Shead The fastest way to gain success is by looking carefully at your failure. Unfortunately that is the exact opposite of what most people do naturally. Leadership - The Test of a Clear Vision By : Mark Shead This article looks at a simple process leaders can use to test how well they are communicating their vision to their organization. Leadership - The Proper Relationship with Subordinates By : Mark Shead In order to achieve maximum efficiency, leaders need to understand the optimal relationship with their subordinates. Leadership - Successful People are not Necessarily Good Leaders By : Mark Shead Just because someone is successful doesn't mean they are a good leader. Be careful what traits you emulated from people who are successful, but not necessarily good leaders. Leadership - How to Challenge an Organization By : Mark Shead One of the most important jobs of any leader is to challenge the organization to greatness. This article examines how to go about doing this. Leadership Development is a Matter of Perspective By : Tom Hanson An examination of the power of perspective in leadership and leadership development. A simple, personal story drives home the point. Flattening of the Growth Curve Part I By : Phil Morettini In every company's history there comes a time (or two or three or four times!) when your momentum slows, and the sales curve begins to flatten. This can be one of the most trying and frustrating times for software and technology companies. This Dog Could Own A Company! By : Paul Donihue Meet Snickers. She's my one year old Puggles. And I am convinced that if she were human she could really own her own company! Snickers has some wonderful business characteristics. Let me share a couple. "Be One of the Few, the Proud Who Utilize The Marines #1 Leadership Technique" By : Tom Hanson Leadership is a life or death matter for Marines. This article reveals the Marines number 1 technique for developing leaders and offers coaching on how to put it into practice in your office today. Build Charisma and Charm Your Way to the Top By : Abbas Abedi Tips on building your charisma for self betterment. Amplifying Positive Deviance By : Graeme Nichol Positive deviants make radical change happen from the outside...Their approaches may be different but their resutls are positive and real Is Leadership Worth the Investment? By : Graeme Nichol Business are spending more and more time and resources on Leadership training without a real ROI. Set your organization up to achieve predefined strategic goals. Watch how leaders emerge as the people who can make things happen. Team Building Through Good Team Players By : Regina Maniam Team building without team players will be a difficult task if the team members pulled in their own directions. Making an effort to develop team players right at the beginning of a project or assignment should be one of the early team building activities. Fail Your Way To Leadership Success By : John Nicholas "Success is 99% failure." Failure can be a vital part of success. If you want to grow and become a truly successful leader you must not fear failure. Take risks and if you fail let the lessons learned be stepping stones to future big successes. Dining On Elephants Or The Secret Of The Law Of The Slight Edge By : John Nicholas As leaders we are often faced with daunting challenges. By learning this one secret and applying it right you'll never have to wonder "What now?" How To Interview Sales Executives By : Ron Bates Specific questions/areas of focus that will take an executive hiring authority unfamiliar with sales process and strategic complex selling a long way down the road to making a solid hiring decision. To Think Big as a Leader Think Small First By : John Nicholas All too often those who aspire to be top leaders will only consider big prestigious assignments. Big mistake. There's gold in the those small seemingly insignificant tasks, if you handle them properly. Here's how to do it. Quick Guide to Kick Start Team Building for a Project By : Regina Maniam Effective Team Building starts right at the beginning of a project. Get your initial foundational activities done well and you will be off to a great start. Optimize Your Sweet Spot By : Lee Colan A common defining moment for people is finding that skill or ability that's right in their sweet spot. Business Coaching; Learning to Change with the Market and Times By : Kris Koonar Business Coaching is all about doing the best with the best tools. Leadership in Network Marketing By : Sanjay Johari Everyone has the potential to be a leader and live on his own terms. Network marketing provides the right atmosphere to bring out the leadership qualities. Learn What Constitutes A Great Leader Then Become One Yourself By : Abbas Abedi Get an overview of leadership skills so you can apply them to yourself. Think Excellence By : Lee Colan Today's thinking effects tomorrow's success. Here are practical ways to get the success you want. Delight in Discomfort By : Lee Colan How to practically improve yourself and your team by getting comfortable with discomfort. How To Hire The Right Person For The Right Job By : John Nicholas Part of good leadership requires skill in the hiring process. Good leaders know that employee turnover is costly. Retention of productive employees affects the bottom line as well as morale and growth. The key to this is hiring the right person in the first place. Five Principles to Improve Your Leadership Skills By : Abbas Abedi 5 ways you can improve your leadership skills today. Five Essential Principles to Improve Your Leadership Skills By : Abbas Abedi Without these points covered you can’t be a good leader. So read this article carefully. Will You Choose To be Succesful Today By : Jeff Schuman Success is a choice you can make. Success is about choosing what you want in life and taking the necessary steps to achieve that goal. Success is not stopping until you get there! Mentoring with a Mission By : Kimberly King Being a strong and effective mentor requires very specific behaviors. Most of the time we tell our Supervisors to "go coach" but we do not observe their coaching to determine if they are demonstrating the behaviors that will drive change. Focus on the behaviors of your Mentors and you will change the results of your businesss! 10 Steps To Think Like A CEO By : Tony Jacowski Gives 10 steps to think like a businessman. Success Means Making a Significant Contribution By : Liane Bate In our businesses we must do the same if we wish to achieve success. By this I mean making a significant contribution of value, going above and beyond the call of duty, and thinking beyond the monetary rewards at the end. Are You a Manager Or a Leader ? By : Andrew James There's a difference between being a boss and a leader. Which one are you? 7 Critical Steps to Formulating Your Annual Strategic Business Plan By : Graeme Nichol Having a plan to execute leads to success. Failing to plan is planning to fail Execution or Exit By : Graeme Nichol Execution leads to results. Planning is a step in the right direction but execution is what counts Are Managers really there to Solve Problems ? By : Graeme Nichol Managers who think they are there to solve problems are living in the wrong century The Art of Delegation By : Graeme Nichol Delegation makes you a success. How are you doing at it? What is a Shared Vision? By : Graeme Nichol Having a vison others buy into leads to success Leadership and Conflict By : Robin Chandler Identifying and handling conflict early on is a key leadership skill that avoids bigger difficulties further down the line. Creating a Vision That Achieves Results By : Graeme Nichol Build a vision that will have the support of your team as well as your customers and build a successful business Credibility: Hard to Achieve - Easy to Lose! By : Graeme Nichol We live and die by our reputations, hold onto what you have Work With Spirit, Work With Pride By : Graeme Nichol Bring back spirit in the workplace and you'll bring back profits What the NHL Playoffs Can Teach You About Business By : Liane Bate While watching last night's game, it struck me how similar the playoff mentality is to how we should be conducting our businesses, and what we can learn as business owners from our hockey addiction! You Work Hard, Do They? By : Paula Switzer Are you frustrated with the employees you manage or supervise? Can't seem to get them as motivated as you are? Learn five strategies for creating the right environment for more committed, engaged employees. The Passionate Leader By : Lee Colan Practical tips to help leaders increase discretionary effort from their employees. Six Sigma Software Tools By : Tony Jacowski What you will need to get the Six Sigma ball rolling! Six Sigma Training - An Overview By : Tony Jacowski Six Sigma Training - A step-by-step guide to choosing the right provider for you! Six Sigma Training Basics By : Tony Jacowski The 1-2-3's of Six Sigma Training! Train Your Mind Daily By : Hirini Reedy A daily mind-power routine is essential for long-term success. The mind has much more strength and intelligence than we consciously use. So by exercising the mind daily, we can access more of our inner potential. Sharpen Your Intuition And Grow Rich By : Hirini Reedy Your intuition can give you more knowledge beyond your current thinking. Many successful leaders, millionaires, warriors, writers and artists have tapped into the power of intuition as part of their overall success. It can help you open doors to new riches. Yes and No - Effective Decision Making By : Martin Haworth Every decision we make, in business, in life in general, is bounded by just two options. Like an on-off switch, we make one or the other - there are no variances to this. Because it's as simple as Yes or No - and so often we get it wrong... Being the Leader in Your Own Life By : Janette Marie Freeman Were you trained as a child, to be a follower or a leader? Many of us were trained to surrender our power early in life. In usually subtle ways we were taught to live by the rules imposed on us by parents, society, religious leadership and educational training, and taught to be followers- not leaders. Do you recognize a few of these rules? Lean Change: Applying Process Improvement to Change Management By : Dutch Holland For companies to thrive in today's world of continuous change they must be continuously changing. If so, then change becomes a process constantly at work - just like any other business process they practice. And process improvement techniques - like Lean Manufacture - can be used to get really good at it. Run the Business / Change the Business - Dual Perspective Proves Key to Success By : Dutch Holland Change Management is a lot like heart surgery - the surgeon must keep the patient alive while the surgery is under way. Likewise, change managers must maintain the business at the very time they are engaged in changing that business. Many initiatives fail to appreciate the need for this dual perspective - at their peril! Leadership Today By : Carl Hoffman The most important thing you do is LEAD your people. Every productive activity on your daily agenda is leadership, regardless of what you call it. You manage, advise, teach, decide, and direct. The list goes on but it's all leading 21st Century Leadership Empowers Leaders at Every Level By : Wayne Messick Historically a new-hire moved from learning the required tasks of their particular job to eventually understanding the goals, strengths, and weaknesses of the business in an orderly way - often having as much to do with their getting older as with their getting better, smarter, or more capable. Personal Charisma - Developing Four Components for Business By : Lila Norden The value of charisma as a business asset has to do with how well you influence others by connecting with them. These four components of charisma can be developed by anyone. Sucessful Team Building Techniques By : John Morris In business, it does not matter whether you work in a typical office a shop or a factory. You are built up of a group individuals with specific goals towards producing the goods that the company sells... Employee Recognition Awards Create Progress By : John Morris In difficult situations, when companies are in crisis and can only be saved by major effort, group morale often rises to far higher levels than before... Sticking to It: The Art of Adherence By : Lee Colan Win or Lose? You Choose. The game is won by those who EXECUTE their strategies. "Sticking To It: The Art of Adherence" reveals the secrets to success for high-achieving individuals and teams. It offers practical steps to help you consistently execute your plans. Read it and WIN!" This article is an excerpt from the best selling book by the same title. Build Bridges Not Walls - Employee Recognition By : John Morris Regular, one-on-one assessments with your staff provide an efficient two-way forum with which to set and review realistic achievement targets, provide feedback on performance, and listen to and consider any problems employees may have... 10 Ways To Stimulate Employee Motivation By : John Morris Today's fast-moving business environment demands that the effective manager be both a well-organized administrator and highly adept in understanding people's basic needs and behaviour in the workplace... Entertain Your Staff For Larger Profits By : John Morris Today's employees, particularly those involved with corporate finance and other major business sectors, are leaning more towards corporate event management and corporate entertainment as a key source of contentment and happiness at work... Mastering the Difference Between Leadership and Management By : Dave Saunders It is a common belief that management and leadership are the same role. While it is common that a manager also plays the part of the leader, these two roles are truly separate in function and in the way they add to the success of an orginization. By understanding the difference between management and leadership you will become more effective in helping others see the road ahead. Team Building - A Common Goal By : Cathy Warschaw Learn how to build and strengthen your team. Use This Simple Time Tested Process And Move Your Business Forward In 2006! By : Michael Ochoa Believe it or not, most businesses or careers never move forward because there is a failure to plan and execute. Shouting out orders to others does not insure a business will succeed nor does it mean a manager will progress. Setting goals that are well thought out, getting others involved that need to make them happen, measuring and adjusting them frequently through the process is the surest bet of making 2006 one of the best years your company or your career will have. Classic Leadership Styles By : Martin Haworth Much has been said over the years about leadership styles. Yet research into the best and most practical overview leads to the easiest conclusion (there will always be variables on these, as well as mixes of them), are that there are four distinct leadership styles (plus an extra!)... Employee Motivation - The 8 Basics By : Martin Haworth To motivate your employees, it is vital that you start off with understanding that there are some things that need to be fixed first, before you can get on with the above the line actions which develop a strong and engaged culture... Success Leaves Clues By : Saleem Rana In my study of people who have a knack for success, who seem to make the accurate choice at the best time, and who appear to constantly be in the right place at the right time, I noticed some essential success principles that they all use. I outline them here for you. Professional Personal Development - What is it? By : Robin Chandler If employees are motivated, confident, communicating well and resolving differences; if they are being acknowledged and appreciated, then stress is reduced; people are more efficient and effective. This article outlines the argument for encouraging and developing these skills within organisations, the profound affect on employees' performance and overall well-being, and a corresponding increase in the bottom line.
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