Life doesn’t come with instructions that help you stick to a specific path to success. Achieving effectiveness on a personal and professional level takes a lot of sweat, patience and sometimes, second-guessing yourself. Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, is one tool individuals have been utilizing for almost three decades as […]
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Your Know-How Guide to Achievement Oriented Leadership
Leadership is an extremely important component of any thriving organization. Actually, trust in leadership correlates closely with employee engagement and productivity. In fact, over half of today’s workforce lists solid leadership as important to their overall happiness with the organization. This is why many manager now turn to achievement oriented leadership. Effective leadership drives an organization to […]
Decision Making Skills: The Secret Tool of Your Staff
An organization that centralizes decision making to a tight select group of senior individuals is missing a significant opportunity to utilize the leadership and intellectual resources of its employees. Failing to empower your staff to make decisions increases turnover, limits creativity, and innovation lowers productivity and stifles leadership development. Stewardship is one of the qualities […]
Facts vs Potential: What Is Rapid Prototyping?
The gap between inspirational, creative design and comprehension is not always easily bridged when speaking to coworkers, managers or potential customers. You may fully understand what you’re saying. But without a prototype explaining your idea others may be left adrift. All too often, designers face the difficulty of trying to relate to their coworkers, management […]
Strengths Based Leadership: How Can a Theory Help Your Business?
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. The question is how best to handle them in business. Because it is practically human nature to dwell on the negative, many people struggle to improve their flaws. But the concept of strengths based leadership takes a slightly different approach. Focusing too much on weaknesses is likely to leave an […]