This week’s posts focused on a number of different soft skills. Soft skills are very important in leadership because they help you to work with and lead people effectively. Check out the posts and tell me what you think!
The Correlation Between Goals, Expectations, And Success – 6/18/2012
One of my main goals as a leader is to have success. Success comes in many forms. Seeing a big project get completed, helping an employee improve and overcome a weakness, hitting a budget target, meeting customer needs and keeping them satisfied, and implementing a new procedure within the given parameters are all forms of success. There are many other forms of success that you will see in your career.
One important aspect of success is that success is in the eye of the beholder. What one person sees as success may be failure to someone else. Success is dependent on your expectations. If you reach your expectations, you will feel successful whereas if you don’t meet them, you will probably not feel successful. More…
What Type Of A Listener Are You? – 6/19/2012
As a leader, it is very important to be a good listener. When you are the leader, you have many responsibilities that you must do on a regular basis. There can get to be a lot of hustle and bustle around you. Amongst all the hustle and bustle, it can be a real challenge to listen to people around you. It is, however, very important to listen effectively and intently to those around you. As you listen, you will find answers to questions without having to ask them.
So how can you be a good listener? What type of listening do you do when you are around others? There are four different types of listening. More…
Understand The Leadership Benefits And Challenges Of A Flat Hierarchy – 6/21/2012
In leadership, a common hierarchy has one person at the top that oversees everyone else. That one person is responsible for making all the decisions and telling everyone else what to do. They are the leader and will be held responsible for the success and failure of their company or organization. This hierarchy has existed for so long that many people don’t think you can be a leader unless you are responsible for leading your group or organization.
Today, however, many people are starting to have leaders in a flat hierarchy organization. There are leaders in organizations where everyone is on the same plane. These organizations have no bosses and not one person has all the control. Many people would say that this type of a setup can’t exist and be successful because there is no leader. Some people would even say that leadership, success, and flat hierarchy don’t belong in the same sentence. More…
This Week’s Top 5 Leadership Blog Posts – 6/22/2012
As a leader, you probably have many leadership responsibilities. This week has been one of those weeks for me and it has been a challenging week to keep up on blogging. Because my time was so limited, I just decided to highlight some of the posts that I really enjoyed without taking the time to post my thoughts on each post.
Some of the posts that I am highlighting were about leadership relationships. As a leader, it is very important to work to maintain good relationships with those you lead. The relationships you make as a leader are very important because leaderships are, in many cases, far more important than the actual work you do.
I hope you enjoy my favorite posts from this week! More…
I hope you enjoyed the posts! What soft skill is most important to you as you lead people? What do you try to do to help people know you care as a leader? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below!
Some of the posts that I am highlighting were about leadership relationships. As a leader, it is very important to work to maintain good relationships with those you lead. The relationships you make as a leader are very important because leaderships are, in many cases, far more important than the actual work you do.
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