Leadership

Aspiring Leaders & Managers

Below you’ll find the posts from Elephants at Work from the Leadership category. Your level within an organization doesn’t determine if you are a leader – leadership qualities can exist from the president down to the lowest level.

Some of the topics within the Leadership category include:

  • Communication and feedback skills
  • Innovation
  • Time management
  • Personal ego
  • Succession planning
  • Multi-generational management
  • Personal style and effectiveness

The articles in the Leadership category will help you think about your leadership capabilities and how develop them. Additional articles can be found in our Personal Effectiveness category and you may find the Workplace Issues information helpful for learning how to set an example. If books are more your style, head over and browse the Top Leadership Books.

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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes As a team leader, consider using assessments to give insight into how your team works and what kind of adjustments you or the team needs to make to be more effective. However, the team members might be suspicious about what you are going to do with their assessment results. Members of the team may be thinking – are you going to use the assessment findings against them? Why do you need this information? There is a right and wrong time to use assessment with your team. For example, if your team is uneasy when ...

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Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes I want to share a discussion from a dance teacher about how you select a dance teacher. The funny thing is that her list of criteria applies any kind of service provider – a coach, consultant or trainer. For clarity, I have italicized her comments vs. my commentary on how it applies to coach, consultant or trainer selection. Ask for the teacher’s education and certification, or other credentials. Good teachers either have a degree in dance education or a certificate from one of the Dance Teachers’ Associations, or similar credentials. In other words, they ...

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Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Every day you face problems. Sometimes the problems are easy to solve and sometimes you face a problem that throws you a curve ball. When you face those situations, what do you do? Bring in an expert? Learn a new problem solving technique? Give up and walk away? Problem solving methodologies define a process for solving a problem. The process may incorporate other skills necessary to problem solve effectively, such as decision making, creativity and teamwork. I’ll work on providing you a list of some of these resources in future blog articles. For now, ...

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Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes I can remember an old boyfriend telling me he wanted to be with me because it made him a better person. I asked him what he meant about being a better person. His response was he puts in extra effort to improve himself and feels successful when he does it. Have you thought about how your relationship with someone affects your actions and feelings? The same expectations hold true about leadership. When you think about people you admire – what leadership qualities are exhibited? Take a few minutes to write down your list of ...

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Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Deep down you know what your special strength is – I’ll bet you lead with your strength every day. The strength may even be something you take for granted because it just works. People around you take notice when you accomplish a goal or see an act of kindness and often see how or why you did it as one of your strengths. I often wonder if we tend to use our strengths when the reward at the end is something positive. What happens when you are trying to deal with adversity? Do you ...

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