Tip 7: Deal with Resistive Personalities & Poor Performance If you don’t deal with poor performance, it will continue! Worse yet, other team members will stop using the skills they have and will stop being creative. Sometimes it is easy to think that challenging behaviour will fix itself. We don’t…
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For this week’s tip on Becoming a Better Leader we look at Improving Your Self-Esteem and Aiming to Strengthen Self-Esteem in Others. Here are some ways we can improve Self-Esteem: (These tips adapted from WebMD.com. They work in management and in your personal life – Give it a Try!) Celebrate…
Tip 5 – Create a Positive Work Climate I have been travelling for work so for those of you who have been reading regularly, my apologies. This week’s tip is about creating a positive work climate. It is well known that a negative work climate can be detrimental to any…
Tip 4: Improve Communication This week’s tip on becoming a better leader is about improving communication. Communication is easily an entire training and development course. There are however, a few ways you can raise your awareness of the impact communication has on leadership: In this world of texting, email and…
This week we continue to discuss how you can become a better leader. Tip 3: Accentuate the positive and emphasize it in all your relationships. Ken Blanchard, a dominant figure in leadership, tells us to look for people doing things right rather than catching people doing things wrong. Ken also…
Last week we started discussing that leading others often requires a different skill set and we shared tip 1 of 7 tips that would help you become a better leader. Here is Tip 2 of 7 - Show Gratitude & Appreciation Express genuine interest in people Demonstrate genuine care for people’s…
Is your management role rougher going than you had anticipated? Many times, the skills that got you promoted to management are not the same skills you need to lead others. If you focus only on the process, you are doomed to fail. This has been proven time and time again. …