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Do Your Organizational Goals Fit Your Company Culture?
Your company culture is a set of shared values and goals that unite every employee, regardless of background or department. Company culture is the personality and heartbeat of an organization. It's what sets a company apart from its competitors and ties its employees together. Your culture could also be your biggest liability if it doesn’t enhance your organizational growth. A commitment to cultivate company culture doesn’t just make your company look like a fun place to work; it also makes for a more engaged, productive, and committed employee.
Top 5 Leadership Books You Need to Read
Leaders are always seeking new insights into the art and science of influencing others toward a common purpose. One of the most valuable resources for leaders looking to grow and develop their core competencies is found inside great books on the topic of leadership.
What’s Your Strongest Leadership Quality? [Quiz]
Leaders wear many hats. From planning and setting goals to monitoring success and providing feedback, a leader’s to-do list is often lengthy but great leaders are always looking for a place to improve. Do you know what your best leadership quality is? Take this quiz and discover if your strongest practice is preparing, envisioning, initiating, assessing or responding and learn how you can work on the others!
7 Leadership Resolutions for a Successful 2019
With resolutions fresh on the mind, it’s important to think beyond some of the most common resolutions like losing weight, eating healthier or exercising more. Instead, start thinking about professional resolutions and aspirations like becoming a great leader.
Why the New Year is the Perfect Time to Take a Look at Your Leadership Development Program
Developing leaders within your current talent pool has become increasingly important in the past few years due to current war for talent and changes in technology. In order to stay on top, building leaders from within has become an important topic for employers and employees. According to Brandon Hall’s State of Leadership Development Survey, 84% of organizations surveyed anticipate a shortfall of leaders in the next five years. With more than over 10,000 baby boomers retiring each day, leadership development is more important than ever to sustain your business.
7 Leadership Principles Every Leader Needs to Understand
Leadership is one of the most important of aspects of successful business or thriving communities. Yet, the practice of leadership remains a mystery when it comes to clearly explaining what great leadership is. You know it when you see it, but what are the essential principles of great leaders in a 21st century knowledge workforce?
The Initiate Practice of Leadership: Your Role in Jump-Starting Creativity
“Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act; falls the shadow.”
-T.S. Elliot
If someone asked you what your goals are for 2019, would you be able to list off a few or would you need time to actually sit down and set some goals? There are different types of goals you can set as an individual, with your team, or for your organization. Goals don’t have to be long-term only; you can have daily, weekly, agile bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly goals.
Whether your goals are short-term or long-term, taking time to set and initiate them is the first step to achieving them, and will help you perform at a higher level, both professionally and personally. When it comes to practicing effective leadership, setting and initiating good goals is essential. An effective leadership plan consists of creating goals and collaborating with others to achieve them.
Why You Don't Need to Be Extroverted to Be a Successful Leader
You don’t have to be George Washington to be a successful leader. When you think of great leaders, do you think of people like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Steve Jobs? Or do you think of people like Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks?
The Key to Powerful Leadership Practices: Envision
If you were asked about a person who made an impact on you professionally (or personally), you would probably choose someone who was inspiring. Maybe it was a teacher from high school, a sports coach or a previous manager at an old job. Their lessons and advice have stuck with you throughout your years and propelled your internal drive to succeed in life. The point is: they changed something in you. They helped make you, and the convictions that drive you, what you are today.
Prepare for Leadership: Using the DISC Model and Developing Your Values
When preparing for leadership, it is important to consider and distinguish the components of your unique personality. In Drea Zigarmi’s Achieve Leadership Genius, these elements include your subconscious self, disposition, values and persona.
