Leadership Workshop (10 of 12) – Start with Yourself
Leading at Light Speed is a powerful leadership book for businesses, public agencies, and nonprofits revealing the 10 specific ways an organization must act and behave to build trust, spark innovation, and create a high-performing organization.
The Ambition Paradox is a concept in Leading at Light Speed [...]
For managers, motivating people to act and think like innovators is the vital component in creating a competitive advantage. This article enumerates 34 ways to assist people in your workplace to be more creative and transform employees into entrepreneurs or “intrapreneurs”.’
1. Eliminate fear of failure. The greatest innovation killer is Fear.
2. Organize teams of coworkers [...]
It is often tough to change the customs of a company or other concern, particularly when it consists of many members who may not all be in the same location. It is always helpful to review the strategies that other teams have found successful in the past. Adventist Midwest Health is just such a success [...]
If you want to dispel the anxiety growing in your workplace, build a foundation of trust built on communication. In uncertain times, employee gossip is at it’s peak and it is important to respond quickly. It is critical for senior management to talk freely and honestly with the workforce in order to keep the rumors [...]
In this tough economic climate, it can be difficult to motivate your employees. They are anxious about losing their jobs, and this anxiety drains the focus and drive that you need for your company’s success.
In order to promote productivity, you need to help your employees figure out what to focus on and what actions to [...]
Between December 2007, the official start of the current recession, and June 2009 more than 40,000 U.S. organizations held layoffs in an effort to reduce costs, increase profits, and improve shareholder value. Unfortunately, studies over the past two decades have shown that most of the time layoff initiatives rarely actually achieve those objectives. In fact, [...]
Now more than ever team leaders and project directors need the support of senior management to make a success of their projects at work.However, in over 10 years of work with change managers, convincing senior management to approve a proposal continues to be a main source of frustration among group managers.
To try to better understand [...]
Have you had the dreadful experience of presenting a team project proposal to executive management, only to feel at the end that the importance of the proposal fell on deaf ears?
As a team leader and director of a function or a team, you are probably passionate about your work.The value of your group’s work is [...]
Almost every person in charge of a team has had a similar experience.With only a few minutes to present to senior management, you must communicate a proposed project on behalf of your team. You work hard to prepare the perfect presentation, only to met by the executives with stony silence after you are through. What [...]
While businesses are struggling to survive in a turbulent economy, it is very easy to avoid communicating with employees. However, this neglect can have a number of consequences. Employee stress must be recognized and dealt with, or productivity will suffer and profits will be effected as employees call in sick for stress related illness, lose [...]