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Five Key Questions to Ask Yourself When Co-Creating
When it comes to involving others to co-creating, get in the mindset of putting others first. Focus on the design of the communication to get your best innovations. To get there, consider the following questions. 1. Who is involved? It is important to correctly...
Want Acceptance Of Your Solutions? Shut Up!
Leaders in the workplace often struggle with gaining acceptance for ideas or solutions to problems. It does not matter if your ideas are brilliant if they are not accepted and implemented well. So what is a leader to do? Instead of jumping in to provide your ideas...
When Does a Transformational Leadership Style Work?
Have you ever been in a team in which someone took charge by communicating a compelling understanding of the purpose of the project, a marked enthusiasm for the job, and a willingness to refresh and energize others in the group? These are some of the qualities that...
Is Facilitative Leadership an Underrated Leadership Style?
What is facilitative leadership? Is it an underrated way to lead? It could be because facilitation and balancing various viewpoints is often seen as a neutral position. Having a neutral position does not undermine the influence that facilitative leaders can have on...
The Rise of Lazy Leadership
I have seen many intelligent and hardworking leaders with good intentions become lazy. Such leaders do not shy away from performing their duties but they seldom exhibit the qualities that make a good leader. Moreover, they are generally so stressed and overwhelmed...
What Does a Directive Leadership Style Entail?
Directive leadership is one of the more common leadership styles, where the leader instructs his followers precisely what to do and how to do it. Although it is one of the most common leadership styles today, directive leadership has somewhat lost its appeal—it isn't...
Ego Is the Enemy of Good Leadership
As a leader, how often do you find yourself being the smartest person in the room? Is it sometimes, most of the time, or is it never? I often wonder what qualifies someone to be or to consider themselves to be the smartest. I mean, what proof is needed for that? Is it...
Does the Servant Leadership Style Work?
While conventional forms of leadership are all about control, servant leadership places the needs of other people first and looks to transfer some of the power to them. A term coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in an essay published in 1970, ‘servant leadership’ is a...
Is the Participative Leadership Style a Good Way to Lead People?
In recent times, within business circles, the "participative leadership" concept has become a catch-phrase. If you follow company blogs about leadership, then you have most likely come across several posts and articles that discuss this specific style of leadership....
What is Executive Presence and How Do You Show It?
Have you ever known a person who exudes leadership qualities the moment they walk into a room? You instinctively know that this individual is in control when they begin talking, but why do you feel this way? You feel this way because of their executive presence. Here,...
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