Consolidating My Leadership Training Blogs

I'm consolidating my leadership blogs, please visit my main training blog.

Take care,

Guy
Leadership Training

Leadership and Knowing Yourself

Take a moment to think about your leadership skills. What works well and what doesn't? What might you do to improve your performance? What are the areas you need to improve? How can you promote your employees' and your organization's success?

The key to great leadership is knowing yourself and not letting your stuff get in the way of helping others grow and building a productive workplace. The more you know yourself and the happier you are with yourself, the greater the chances you'll be able to transmit those qualities to your employees. The key is to be happy with yourself so you can treat people well.

Take care,

Guy
Leadership Training

Harsh Leadership

I'm not sure where the harsh approach to leadership started but, somewhere along the way, someone told people that they had to be hard on their employees. This leadership approach includes behaviors like shouting at employees, getting angry, expecting them to prove themselves or generally dominating and proscribing everything they have to do.

This approach has predictable results: Employees who come in solely for a paycheck and are scared of the boss. An approach I've found works much better is to move away from fear-based leadership to leadership where people are inspired to do work. This can be achieved by leading in a way that allows people to think and act on their own and that rewards them for the things they do well. It's also a positive idea to provide opportunities for education and growth.

Take care,

Guy
Leadership Training

Leadership and Communication

Think about your leadership style and how you communicate with others as well as the results you get. Effective leaders know how to talk with people in a way that motivates and validates them. It's not enough to give orders or talk at people, deeper communication is about understanding your employees and helping them motivate themselves.

Take care,

Guy
Leadership Training

Your Leadership Style and Workplace Functioning

Your leadership style is present in every part of your workplace. It shows in how you and the other people in the organization behave and how you relate to other companies and your clients. A big part of leadership training is developing a style that helps you and your employees behave in positive ways. As a leader, you decide what skills and abilities you cultivate in people as well as which behaviors you value.

Take care,

Guy
Leadership Training

Leadership and How You Behave

A big part of leadership training is understand how your behavior affects you, your employees and your workpalce. Forward-thinking leaders understand the difference between their own perspective and others' points ov view and can use both to create more effective workplaces. The key is to develop a leadership style that validates both you and others. You'll enjoy leading by inpsiring people from within.

Take care,

Guy
Leadership Training

11 Tips to Be a Contented Leader

A leadership training article I wrote with tips on how to be a contented leader.