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5 Secret traits to make a better leader
When I became a leader, I had no clue what I was doing. I was a high school student and had just been elected student body president. I had served as class president and in a few other positions, but there didn’t seem to be a lot of…
5 ways to increase your leadership presence
Leadership presence, that illusive but “we know it when we see it” quality, is a blending of personal and interpersonal skills that when combined, send all the right signals. It’s how you show up, how you make others feel, and how…
Why leaders should not manage their own milestone processes
The most effective senior leaders pay attention to strategy, organization and operations, driving what to do and why, who’s going to do it, and how to get it done. While the first two are essential, they are useless without the third. High…
Four simple leadership practices to bring out the best of your team
Being a leader today can be tough, there’s no doubt about it. The good news is that it can also be exceptionally rewarding. One of the challenges I hear most often is that teams are so diverse today. The teams you lead could include remote…
The 5 rules of leadership accountability
We all know that success, after all, depends on positive results. We can have a brilliant process, a solid structure, and a great team. But if at the end of the day we are not achieving the ambitioned goals, there is an obvious problem…
3 leadership habits that might be killing your business
Did you know that 96 per cent of businesses fail within 10 years? That’s nine out of ten entrepreneurial dreams dead, gone and buried.So what do the other four per cent do differently? Let’s take a look at Ed Mylett, who’s one of the…
5 ways to transform your life
Focus on yourself firstIf you want to change the world, you must begin with yourself. When it comes right down to it, you have control over only THREE things in life: the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions…
10 behaviours sabotaging your leadership skills
Have you ever been in a situation at work where you felt like you lost your cool? Maybe not in that wildly out of control way, but enough to where you felt bad about what you said or did and wished you’d handled yourself differently?You…
10 things successful leaders do differently
Great leaders close their open door policy:
Open door policies are passive ways to facilitate communication and do more harm than good. They make deep work and strategic thinking virtually impossible for the manager. Worse, research shows…
How to motivate high performers
High performers need positive feedback; they do a great job and they should have that acknowledged. However, phrases like “great job” or “nice work” are so vague as to be virtually useless. And in some cases, they may even do harm.Let’s…