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Leadership Is About Taking Initiative to Create New Opportunities

By Brandon W. Jones on August 6, 2014 0

This is a guest post by Ashley Alex. She is a great writer for click 2 Assignment where she works with an experienced team of great writers. Her main focus is to assist people who want to become the best leaders in order to create new opportunities in their professional life.

We all know that to become the best leader we should take initiatives in our workplace. Best leaders don’t need to wait for someone else to say to them what to do or what not to do. They make plans and take the initiative individually to break the barriers to effective leadership for the growth of the company. It’s easy for them to take initiative by their self because of their great leadership expertise and knowledge that stand them out from the crowd. If you want to overcome problems and create new opportunities in order to enhance your company performance, then you are at the right platform. Review the information shared below to resolve problems and to set new objectives for a proactive leadership.

Positive attitude

If you want to be successful in every objective as a leader, you must have a motivating attitude. Yes, you have to work with full confidence, to take initiatives at work by yourself. If you believe that your ideas are workable and will appreciate by higher authorities, then you can increase the possibility of achieving new objectives. Always remember your positive approach is the weapon that will help you to make things happen. Moreover, when you work confidently and take initiatives, your enthusiasm passed on to your teammates. In this way, you can successfully resolve current problems and enhance your company turnover. [Read more…] about Leadership Is About Taking Initiative to Create New Opportunities

Characteristics of a Strategic Leader

By Brandon W. Jones on August 5, 2014 0

This is a guest post by John Kelly. He is a professional and experienced academic as well as article writer currently joined with Buy Essay Online. His core responsibility is to provide assistance and guidance to the students in preparing their academic task.

What Is Strategic Leadership Style?

Strategic leadership actually means employing strategy in the employee management. Generally the core strategy employed is to inspire and stimulate employees to take decisions and measures to ameliorate their prolific input into the organization. Strategy requires critical thinking as well as planning skills, whereas leadership motivates others to take the right measures. This is a model of management that trains and motivates workers to best prepare the organization to get success.

Progressive Thinking

Strategic leaders are always looking forward and examining the current situation in terms of preparation for what may come for the entire business. One of the biggest parts of this style of leadership is awareness; however, it must be followed up with well planned action. These leaders are flexible and adjustable and also focus the business growth and expansion. In fact these leaders fulfill their responsibilities to get things done by training their workers to reflect on and act more efficiently to accomplish the best outcome for the business. [Read more…] about Characteristics of a Strategic Leader

Being a Leader Abroad: How to Deal with Homesickness

By Brandon W. Jones on August 4, 2014 0

This is a guest post by Peter Collin. He has a PhD and served as an academic consultant to several universities. He is also a seasonal professional writer at 1click dissertation to help students in completing their academic assignments.

In a recent survey, nearly 85% students who study abroad experience homesickness. Although this is study was on students, it is also very common amongst leaders. Homesickness is argued to be a form of anxiety that occurs when the world feels less stable around you. Psychologists state that homesickness can arise due to a variety of reasons, such as cultural shock from living in the new environment, life without friends, family and the comforts of home, inadequate coping mechanism in the new country. Leaders who experience it, might notice an increase in depressed feelings, anxiety, obsessive thoughts and minor physical illnesses.

Nevertheless, in my opinion, homesickness can be identified through this scenario; “In depression, sufferers find both university and home awful, whereas in homesickness university can feel awful while home may be seen in rose-tinted hues.”

Most of the leaders would normally start by being mildly depressed and anxious several weeks before leaving home, in anticipation of the impending change. However, others will be fine initially, and then to everyone’s surprise they find themselves feeling homesick later, perhaps soon after the completion phase one of a major project, or even at the start of their second year. But ordinarily it is the first few days or weeks after arriving which are the most difficult. [Read more…] about Being a Leader Abroad: How to Deal with Homesickness

How to Break the Barrier of Effective Leadership

By Brandon W. Jones on July 23, 2014 2

This is a guest post by Eddie. He is a writer for SpeedyEssay where he works with clients on academic writing services. Eddie loves to write about leadership issues in order to help leaders overcome hurdles that stop them from boosting their performance.

In the past few months, we’ve seen several leaders who were negatively dealt with new challenges and fail to accomplish them. Many inspiring leaders are unbalanced because they fail to break the barriers they have created in their leadership. Strong leaders always possess effective communications skills, planning and management skills in order to boost up the operations of their business. However, if you are a leader and facing new barriers in your leadership, then you’re at the right spot. Unveil the information written below to breaks the barriers and boost up your business turnover.

Overconfidence

We know that confidence is a vital leadership quality, having excessively is considered as overconfidence. Every leader must use their confidence to encourage others in order to generate and implement new ideas. It means that the instructions should be delivered in an impressive manner that will truly encourage others. However, confidence has a characteristic to grow if not balanced at the time, so must take precautions to avoid excessive amount of confidence. Otherwise arrogance takes over your leadership and ruins all your great efforts. Remember overconfidence leader is not respected by his/her subordinates and negatively impact their performance. Thus, it’s important for every leader to understand and learn how to avoid this negative behavior in order to keep on growing. [Read more…] about How to Break the Barrier of Effective Leadership

5 Of The Most Common Leadership Mistakes

By Brandon W. Jones on July 21, 2014 0

This is a guest post by Sophie Eagan. She is a leadership writer for 360 Degrees Feedback. Sophie has worked in HR since she was just 16 years old, she knows full well the common leadership mistakes that can be made by leaders. She has specific experience in leadership feedback and regularly emphasizes the importance of requesting feedback from within ones own company to identify problems before they arise.

A lot of people do say that it is better to make leadership mistakes as these provide the perfect learning curve, though it is much better to make these mistakes away from the field, or even making them in the first place! I am going to discuss the most common leadership mistakes and management errors, this should hopefully deter you from making the same mistakes, if you can learn about that here in this article, rather than through experience you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

1. The Absence Of Feedback

Let’s say, you have a fantastic sales representative, but they have a habit of answering the phone in an unprofessional manner. You do know about this but would much prefer to wait for the review to come up so you can bring it up. This is a big problem, until they have actually been told about the problem, they will continue to do the exact same thing, putting off potential customers. By not providing the correct feedback you are actually starving your staff of the opportunity to improve their performance.

2. Having No Time For The Team

Being a manager or a leader of a team, you can sometimes wrap yourself up so much in your own work that you do not have time for the team what so ever. Everyone has deadlines and projects they need to hand in on time, it is not just you! Without proper guidance and support, none of your team will actually know what to do and therefore won’t meet any of their objectives, which can put certain projects behind for weeks or even months! You can avoid this mistake by making blocks in your schedule solely for your team, you want your door to “always be open”. [Read more…] about 5 Of The Most Common Leadership Mistakes

Leadership Styles: What Style Do You Follow?

By Brandon W. Jones on July 18, 2014 0

This is a guest post by Alice Morey. She is a professor majoring in finance field. She teaches finance and economics courses at University of East London, UK. She also writes, blogs and is a regular contributor to youth and leadership programs. In addition to her teaching and writing, she is a seasonal writer at “Courseworkhome” to assist students in their academic coursework.

Leadership can be reflected as a method whereby one influences the others. In the course of business, leaders show multiple leadership styles depending on the situation they are experiencing.

Leadership Styles

It is argued that leaders have both authority (the right to influence) and power (the ability to work). One without the other is never suitable.

Authority develops from an individual’s position in an organizational structure, authority limits and the operation of the law. While, power can arise from the following sources;

Rational-legal: the manager may exercise his/her power because of the title “senior manager” and individuals below him are supposed to carry out his instructions.
Charismatic: where the person has great charm and force or personality.
Reward power: where the promise of pay increases or promotions are used.
Knowledge: where withholding and releasing knowledge selectively utilizes power.
Coercion: through physical power, this is seldom to be seen in modern organizations.

What Titanic Disasters Teach About Leadership?

By Brandon W. Jones on July 15, 2014 2

This is a guest post by Ali Jafra. Throughout his professional career Ali has been associated with globally recognized consulting firms, including PriceWaterHouse Coopers & Mercer consulting where he has undertaken a number of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) assignments, which has given him a diverse and unique perspective on Change Management. He has successfully managed relationships for blue chip companies, such as, Pepsi International, Microsoft, General Motors, Standard Chartered Bank, Polycom, Du Pont & Al Ghurair Group.

He has also worked as a Lead Project Manager for United Nations (UNDP) project to build capacity of Ministry of Economic Affairs Team in Pakistan to strengthen their online presence and virtual coordination for technology cooperation among developing countries.

In his passion to facilitate dissemination of knowledge with ease, he has moderated more than 100 Live Webinars on MILE’s platform by successfully engaging speakers from Top Academic Schools in the world and Global Consulting firms, such as Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, INSEAD, London Business School, Wharton, Babson, Yale, Standford, Carnegie, IESE, Cranfield, Oliver Wyman, Strategy&, United Nations Chief of E-government and many more.

Ali is a Certified Practitioner of Personality & Preference Inventory program (PAPI) which is a Psychometric tool developed by Cubiks an entity of PA Consulting U.K.

Ali holds a BSc. Degree from Elon University, North Carolina, USA.

Sinking of the Titanic in a cold night on April 14, 1912 will go down as one of the greatest tragedies in the history of mankind. The incident instantly became the epitaph for the lives of more than a thousand people who died. The ship was definitely doomed and slowly but surely sinking into its boundless water grave. Have you ever thought what caused the most advanced and largest ship of its time to sink.

Anyone who has seen the movie or read stories about the disaster would know that the Titanic did not sink because of the iceberg, but it was actually the failed leadership that sent the unsinkable ship to the depths of water. The ship now rests in the bottom of the ocean, but the calamity can certainly teach everyone a lesson about how to become a good leader.

A Leader Has to Take the Responsibility:

You cannot become a leader by acquiring a senior position in an organization, job title or by becoming a figurehead. A leader should be motivating, involved, engaging, training others, removing obstacles and always ready to explore new opportunities.

Captain James Smith was heading to an easy life as it was his retirement trip. One wonders why he ignored 7 warnings about icebergs both from his crew and other ships. A leader should be held responsible for everything an organization does and its success and failure. [Read more…] about What Titanic Disasters Teach About Leadership?

Student Leadership

By Brandon W. Jones on July 14, 2014 1

This is a guest post by Austin Hong. He was raised in Los Angeles, California before attending Boston College, where he studies Finance. Currently he is working for a legal management consulting firm in the Beacon Hill area of Boston, MA.

According to Warren Bennis, widely considered the pioneer of Leadership Studies, “The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” This notion and thought that there exists a “leadership gene” is the cause of widespread stunted confidence and leadership potential of an already self-conscience, often, confused demographic of students and young adults.

Many students are afraid of taking the risk to become a leader, because they are afraid that they don’t have the right personality or skill set to be an effective leader. After serving on student governments at both the secondary and university levels of education, on an executive board that served and represented 15 non-profit student chapters, in a Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps company, and a number of other organizations and roles ranging from sports teams to businesses, I have learned a few things about what it means to be a student leader. I personally believe that becoming an experienced student leader sets up the foundation to becoming a more diversified and qualified leader in the workplace, amongst peers, or in any other scenario, where one might be required to lead others. Student leadership is possible!

1. Leaders are not born

If you haven’t already picked up on the fact that I am a firm believer in the statement that leaders are not born with the inherent knack for leading others, then I am here to make clear that I am. With this in mind, it is critical, especially as students and young adults, to have a student leadership mentor or model, because it is from him or her that we learn to become leaders ourselves. This chain can act in one of two ways.

The first and more common way is looking up to a leader and sharing common values with him or her, so much so that you begin to emulate their style.

The second is by serving under a leader only to learn that you disagree with their style of leadership in major or minor ways, causing you to alter your perception of a proper leader and not repeating his or her faults. A person will not shape his entire values and thoughts on leadership based on one individual, one leader, rather it is the culmination of every mentor, model, and significant figure that he or she has ever encountered that will shape him or her. [Read more…] about Student Leadership

Leadership And The Social Media Technology: A Perfect Combination

By Brandon W. Jones on July 3, 2014 2

This is a guest post by Sara Jones. She has been actively taking her part in the teaching and educational reforms. Moreover, with her affiliation with UK Education Council, she has been providing assignment help by the platform of Done Assignment to graduate and post graduate level students.

It is known by most of the organisations that the leadership context has dramatically changed during the last two decades, putting terrific pressure on conventional managerial and organisational models. Now, the leaders are confronted with highly volatile and unforeseen situations that challenge long-term strategies. Today’s organisations are caught in a new interconnected world of complex global networks that pursue innovative approaches of co-evolution, with their diverse stakeholders. For these organisations, there are also some disruptive factors in terms of intensifying political issues, economic and environmental challenges that require incessant business model innovation.

Turn Challenges into Opportunities

In order to confront with and turn these challenging issues into opportunities, it has been realised by the leaders that they have to establish an extremely creative, active, and supple organisations. Organisations, to effectively accomplish real-time strategic responsiveness, also have to force responsibilities “down and out” to the periphery, to people who are nearer to the market dynamics. Responsibility is interconnected with accountability. Thus, almost every employee in this volatile world must become an authorised leader who can act effectively within the network relationships, which have become a trend for the process of value creation. A horizontal” leadership style is its basic need that furthers global discussion, contribution, and cooperation among stakeholders. In fact, the conventional management model based on linear processes and vertical command and control is ill suited to deal with these challenging issues. [Read more…] about Leadership And The Social Media Technology: A Perfect Combination