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Defining Leadership

Defining Leadership Are you a born leader?  Interviews carried out with a number of leading men and women came up with the following answer.  They all agreed that leaders are made not born.  This has interesting implications for those people who wish to improve their leadership skills.  It is a fact that in industry we desperately need better leaders at all levels. A definition of leadership can be expressed as "a relationship amongst leaders and followers who intend real changes that…



Motivating Staff

Employee Motivation Motivating employees is important whatever the potential of the employee, but it is especially crucial for truly talented people who are likely to have leadership potential either now or in the future. Motivating talented employees needs to be a top organisational priority because they are by definition especially precious possessions.  They are particularly likely to find another company if they don't feel that this one meets their demanding needs for job satisfaction, purpose …



Leadership training

Leadership Training Many organisations aspire to improving their performance and the performance of their people.  Organisations have a number of options.  They can send selected people to external leadership training courses, use their company training officer or engage some one to take "in-house" leadership training courses. When you think about it carefully, there would be a great social change in this country if anyone could become an engineer, a lawyer or dentist by attending a short tra…



Leadership Qualities

  Leadership and Supervision.       Some people believe that you have to be a nice, agreeable person to be a successful leader.        Others say that you've got to be hard and strict to keep the staff in line.         If you choose either direction, you will find yourself going home frustrated, wondering how you went wrong. The truth is, you don't have to be a dictator to manage effectively, nor do you h…



A Modern Parable on Leadership

  A Modern Parable On Leadership   A business owner once asked a wise man for help in improving an unprofitable business.  The wise man wrote a charm on a piece of paper and sealed it in a box which he gave to the business owner.  "Take this box to every worker in your business every day for a year," he told him.   The business owner did so.  In the morning he carried it into the store and asked the Stores Supervisor about the level of Quality Control on Inwards Goods.  …



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