Seven Tips to Improve Critical Thinking 

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Critical Thinking in leadership is a powerful tool and matters for growth in any business. Growing a business to scale attracts risks and challenges best mitigated by critical thinking and good decision-making. Talented entrepreneurs argue that to grow a business, you have to scale its leadership and management with a key focus on critical thinking […]

Five Tips to being an Inspirational Leader

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Although most people value competence as one of the most crucial traits in a good leader, they often overlook inspiration. Inspirational leaders tend to radiate effortless passion and charisma, which is admirable to employees. The ability to inspire can come naturally for some people, whereas, in others, it requires practice just like any other skill. […]

How to Learn Lead Change  

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Leadership is an important aspect of any organization. It provides a foundation that forms a structural and functional organization. Leadership helps direct and coordinate the activities of the employees, which in turn creates a more conducive environment for effective performance and productivity. For an organization to be successful, a leader must be able to support […]

Seven Skills For Highly Effective Managers

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Whether you are a family, school, or business leader, effective management is beyond ensuring that all objectives are met. As a manager, you are responsible for inspiring team members to achieve the preset goals within the specified period. As such, an effective manager focuses more on engagement rather than the output. But this doesn’t mean […]

How To Get Into a Healthy Work Relationship With Your Team

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Does your business have a team? If so, you know how important it is to ensure your employees are happy. One significant way to make sure your employees are happy and feel good about themselves at work is through healthy relationships. A healthy work relationship helps you do the best job by assisting others to […]

Five Tips for Situational Analysis

It’s that time of year when organizations start their business planning process. For some, marketing drives this process that began late last year. But, for a task everyone seems to know how to do, why is it so difficult? In a recent Core Management Assessment, business planning was the top skill that senior leaders indicated […]

Tips on Dealing with a Toxic Boss

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Giving feedback to your boss can be difficult. Unfortunately, it’s always been that way and likely always will.  Still, I was surprised by the response to a recent  article on the topic. It was clear from the reaction that many people have difficult bosses who are not interested in criticism (constructive or not).  In reading through […]

Five Tips to Improving your Leadership & People Pipeline

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you or another key executive member of your company left? Would your business crumble, or would you easily find a replacement? The truism that the success of a company largely depends on a sustainable leadership pipeline cannot be overstated. Indeed, if your business is currently doing well, […]