Leadership development & business development tools

Great leadership is the display of a combination of tools, skills and behaviors.  It isn’t the result of position power or personality.  Consequently, it can be learned and demonstrated.
Think of the great leaders you’ve known.  I’ll bet they demonstrated most if not all of these skills.
Here’s my list of the top tools, skills and behaviors.
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Most work in companies gets done through interaction between people.  Some managers mistakenly think they can just hire people, give them a job or task to do and then expect that they’ll ‘make it happen’.
Recently, I’ve heard leaders say “Do your job!” like that person could just wave a magic wand and have everything turn [...]

The economy is showing signs of recovering.  It may be a slow rebound but there are things you MUST be doing now to make sure you participate in the recovery when it comes.
I talk to many business owners who are either hunkered down themselves waiting for the economic ‘storm’ to blow over or they’re trying [...]

I spent over two decades of my corporate career in various roles in Human  Resources and as a result, had TONS of conversations with managers about how to deal with their employees or teams when their performance wasn’t ‘up to snuff’.  Quite often, their initial ‘remedy’ was to suggest training, but training isn’t always the [...]

You’ve probably heard the phrase, “People do business with people they know, like and trust”.  It makes sense.  When we’re comfortable with people, we’re more willing to hang around them and more willing to fork over money to them believing they ‘get’ us and can help us.
The challenge arises when we get and stay too [...]

Some executives think it’s best to keep things ‘close to the vest’.  They believe their employees can’t handle the truth.  They believe their own knowledge is sufficient to carry the day.
Those executives are flushing the intellectual capital of their company down the drain.
Employees know more than their bosses give them credit for.
Working, by Studs Terkel, [...]