What are the traits that make an association CEO exceptional? This eBook is based on conversations with association leaders, and experience within the association sector.
What Is Missing Most In Leaders Today - Linked 2 LeadershipLinked 2 Leadership
The document summarizes responses from multiple individuals to the question "What is missing most in leaders today?". Some of the most common responses included a lack of humility, courage, vision, ethics, integrity and the ability to listen. Many respondents felt modern leaders were too focused on their own outcomes rather than having a shared purpose with their teams.
The document discusses high-performing teams and how to build leadership quotient. It provides an agenda for a meeting that will cover topics like ideal team size, diversity versus good chemistry, the importance of pairs, how brain structure relates to teams, managing change and maneuverability, and team lifecycles. The document advocates that team design must work with brain structures and provide the support needed for teams to reach their full potential. It also notes that teams must be capable of surviving significant changes in today's economy and that humans adapt more slowly than technology.
The document discusses the LEADERS model, which provides a framework for defining core leadership principles and attributes. The model is based on a mnemonic with the following components: Lead by example, Earn and extend trust, Adopt a bias for action and proactivity, Demonstrate core values, Engage the four E's of involvement, Respect the three C's of communication, culture and change, and Succeed by planning and prioritizing. Each component is then explored in detail with references to additional leadership models and theories.
1) The article discusses the transition leaders must make from focusing on individual success and standing out to focusing on developing their team and establishing a collaborative culture.
2) It notes that successful organizations rely on team success and culture rather than any single "cult of personality" or superstar.
3) The ideal leaders described prioritize empowering others over showcasing their own abilities and take responsibility for failures while giving credit to others for successes.
This chapter introduces the concept of leadership and how it differs from management. It defines leadership as an influence relationship among leaders and followers intended to create real change. Leadership involves people, influence, change, shared purpose, and personal responsibility. The biggest challenge for today's leaders is adapting to a changing world that demands a new leadership paradigm focused on empowerment, collaboration, diversity, and higher purpose over control and personal ambition. While management focuses on maintaining stability and efficiency, leadership is about creating vision, inspiring others, and driving change within a culture of integrity. Both management and leadership skills are generally needed for organizations to be effective.
THE POWER OF INFLUENCE: LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY LEADERTom Hood, CPA,CITP,CGMA
This document provides a summary of a leadership conference presentation on strategies for extraordinary leaders. The presentation was given by Tom Hood, CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs Business Learning Institute, at the 2010 IGAF Worldwide Women's Leadership Conference on CPA Island in Second Life. The presentation focused on the five qualities of extraordinary leaders: sight, insight, create, communicate, and inspire. It also provided a toolkit and practice exercises for developing these leadership qualities using the Insight to Action strategic thinking system.
Transformational Leadership: Inspiring Motivation Utilizing Advances in Posit...Sandra (Sandy) Dunn
This document discusses how transformational leadership and inspirational motivation can be used to maximize employee performance and business success. It explores concepts like flow, meaning, and positive psychology. Key points:
1) Transformational leaders inspire employees through idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration, and inspirational motivation. This increases engagement, creativity, and performance.
2) Research on flow states, intrinsic motivation, and peak experiences shows how challenging goals and feedback can optimize employee productivity and happiness.
3) Creating meaning through mission/vision, goal-setting, recognition, listening and ownership gives employees purpose and enhances inspirational motivation.
4) Techniques from performance coaching, like emphasizing process over product goals
20 Things That Will Make You a Powerfully Influential LeaderKris Fannin
This document provides 20 tips for becoming a powerfully influential leader. The top tips include being authentic and admitting mistakes, building trust through transparency and consistency, empowering employees appropriately, and focusing on relationship building over bureaucracy. Influential leaders demonstrate loyalty, give clear expectations, and allocate more resources to average and low performers in order to build their influence throughout the organization.
What Is Missing Most In Leaders Today - Linked 2 LeadershipLinked 2 Leadership
The document summarizes responses from multiple individuals to the question "What is missing most in leaders today?". Some of the most common responses included a lack of humility, courage, vision, ethics, integrity and the ability to listen. Many respondents felt modern leaders were too focused on their own outcomes rather than having a shared purpose with their teams.
The document discusses high-performing teams and how to build leadership quotient. It provides an agenda for a meeting that will cover topics like ideal team size, diversity versus good chemistry, the importance of pairs, how brain structure relates to teams, managing change and maneuverability, and team lifecycles. The document advocates that team design must work with brain structures and provide the support needed for teams to reach their full potential. It also notes that teams must be capable of surviving significant changes in today's economy and that humans adapt more slowly than technology.
The document discusses the LEADERS model, which provides a framework for defining core leadership principles and attributes. The model is based on a mnemonic with the following components: Lead by example, Earn and extend trust, Adopt a bias for action and proactivity, Demonstrate core values, Engage the four E's of involvement, Respect the three C's of communication, culture and change, and Succeed by planning and prioritizing. Each component is then explored in detail with references to additional leadership models and theories.
1) The article discusses the transition leaders must make from focusing on individual success and standing out to focusing on developing their team and establishing a collaborative culture.
2) It notes that successful organizations rely on team success and culture rather than any single "cult of personality" or superstar.
3) The ideal leaders described prioritize empowering others over showcasing their own abilities and take responsibility for failures while giving credit to others for successes.
This chapter introduces the concept of leadership and how it differs from management. It defines leadership as an influence relationship among leaders and followers intended to create real change. Leadership involves people, influence, change, shared purpose, and personal responsibility. The biggest challenge for today's leaders is adapting to a changing world that demands a new leadership paradigm focused on empowerment, collaboration, diversity, and higher purpose over control and personal ambition. While management focuses on maintaining stability and efficiency, leadership is about creating vision, inspiring others, and driving change within a culture of integrity. Both management and leadership skills are generally needed for organizations to be effective.
THE POWER OF INFLUENCE: LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY LEADERTom Hood, CPA,CITP,CGMA
This document provides a summary of a leadership conference presentation on strategies for extraordinary leaders. The presentation was given by Tom Hood, CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs Business Learning Institute, at the 2010 IGAF Worldwide Women's Leadership Conference on CPA Island in Second Life. The presentation focused on the five qualities of extraordinary leaders: sight, insight, create, communicate, and inspire. It also provided a toolkit and practice exercises for developing these leadership qualities using the Insight to Action strategic thinking system.
Transformational Leadership: Inspiring Motivation Utilizing Advances in Posit...Sandra (Sandy) Dunn
This document discusses how transformational leadership and inspirational motivation can be used to maximize employee performance and business success. It explores concepts like flow, meaning, and positive psychology. Key points:
1) Transformational leaders inspire employees through idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration, and inspirational motivation. This increases engagement, creativity, and performance.
2) Research on flow states, intrinsic motivation, and peak experiences shows how challenging goals and feedback can optimize employee productivity and happiness.
3) Creating meaning through mission/vision, goal-setting, recognition, listening and ownership gives employees purpose and enhances inspirational motivation.
4) Techniques from performance coaching, like emphasizing process over product goals
20 Things That Will Make You a Powerfully Influential LeaderKris Fannin
This document provides 20 tips for becoming a powerfully influential leader. The top tips include being authentic and admitting mistakes, building trust through transparency and consistency, empowering employees appropriately, and focusing on relationship building over bureaucracy. Influential leaders demonstrate loyalty, give clear expectations, and allocate more resources to average and low performers in order to build their influence throughout the organization.
Strengths-based leadership development is the biggest revolution in the leadership development field in the last 50 years. We didn't pick up pitch forks or arms, but we have joined the revolution.
This chapter discusses moral leadership and leadership courage. It explores how leaders can act ethically by focusing on principles like serving others, honesty, and fairness. Leaders set the ethical tone for their organizations and face pressures that challenge their ability to do what is right. The chapter also covers developing moral courage and examining one's own stage of moral development to become a better leader. Ideas like servant leadership that emphasize serving followers are presented as well.
This document provides an overview of followership and different types of followers. It discusses how expectations of followers have changed over time as employees want more meaningful work. It also explains that everyone plays the role of follower at some point, and effective followers can become future leaders. The document then covers psychological reasons for why people follow, including cost-benefit analyses, compliance with authority, trust, and identification with leaders. It introduces the Curphy-Roellig model of followership that identifies four types of followers based on their level of critical thinking and engagement: self-starters, brown-nosers, critics, and slackers. Self-starters are described as the most effective followers who are passionate, think of improvements, and solve
Servant Leadership Principles - Fostering a Culture of AgilityLen Lagestee
The phrase “servant leadership” is frequently used when current leadership styles (typically command-and-control) clash with an emerging culture of empowerment and self-organization. “We need our leaders to embody servant leadership” is a comment I recently heard. But what is servant leadership? Do people really know what they are asking for?
Let's take a look at a few of the principles from the book Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf.
This example illustrates Herzberg's two-factor theory. Specifically, it relates to the hygiene factors dimension. Patient satisfaction survey scores measure things like working conditions, company policies, and interpersonal relationships - which Herzberg classified as hygiene factors. When hygiene factors are poor, work is dissatisfying. In this case, if patient satisfaction scores are low, it could indicate dissatisfying working conditions, policies, or relationships for patients. The government is using patient satisfaction scores/hygiene factors to determine Medicare reimbursement rates as a way to reduce dissatisfaction among patients and healthcare providers. However, according to Herzberg's theory, while addressing hygiene factors can reduce dissatisfaction, it does not necessarily improve satisfaction or motivation on its own
The document discusses qualities of good and bad leaders. Good leaders that people follow freely have qualities like experience, empathy, vision, inspiration, honesty and motivation. Bad leaders people are unwilling to follow are corrupt, closed-minded, dishonest, selfish and arrogant. The document also contrasts winners versus losers and discusses different levels of leadership, with level 5 leaders embodying humility and ambition for the organization.
This document contains 162 professionals' opinions on the difference between management and leadership. Key differences highlighted include:
- Management focuses on efficiency, tasks, and goals while leadership focuses on vision, inspiring change, and effectiveness.
- Managers direct resources and delegate tasks, while leaders motivate others and inspire action through vision and role modeling.
- Management is a role or responsibility, while leadership can come from any level and is about influence rather than position.
- The best organizations value both management and leadership working together to achieve goals and drive change.
The document discusses the creation of the Centre for Corporate Spiritual Responsibility (CSpR), the first of its kind in the world. CSpR was launched to address issues like lack of employee engagement, meaningfulness in work, and stress/burnout through developing spiritual intelligence in organizations. It summarizes research showing benefits of workplace spirituality like improved productivity, creativity, and satisfaction. CSpR aims to help individuals and corporations realize their interconnectedness and operate from a holistic spiritual system perspective rather than just a materialistic one. Its objectives include providing assessment/intervention services, education, research, and advising corporations on developing workplace spirituality.
This document discusses a blog series by Ed Brenegar on leadership questions. It begins by explaining that Brenegar's blog is titled "Leading Questions" because questions are at the core of his work. He then wrote down questions about leadership and posted them daily for readers to ponder. The document outlines 10 assumptions that Brenegar brings to leadership and says the purpose is to think more clearly about leadership. It encourages readers to discover new ways of transforming themselves in their leadership roles.
Management involves planning, budgeting, organizing staff and resources, and controlling processes to efficiently achieve goals. Leadership involves setting a vision and direction, aligning people behind the vision through inspiration and motivation, and influencing change. While managers focus on systems and processes, leaders focus more on people and culture. Effective organizations need both management and leadership working together.
A Managers Guide to a Cascading Team Values Conversation
This is a guide for a manager to conduct a values conversation/ workshop with his or her team. The values conversation will take from 1 1/2 to 3 hours. The purpose is to clarify the values that will help the team move toward their highest level of performance.
In the conversation, the team will
• Explore their personal values about teamwork
• Create a team values statement
• Come to agreement about what those values mean in action
Table of Contents
Section 1 - Setting the Stage
• Values (sm)
• Leading a Values Conversation .
• Clarifying Your Values
• Values are the Foundation for Success
• Values Replace Rules
• Values Provide Guidance
• Aligned Values
• Change of Values
• Values Into Action
• Value Conflicts
Section 2 - Personal Values Exploration
• Cascading Valuessm to Your Team
• High Performance Team Exercise
• Introduction to the Values Cards
• Personal Values Exploration
• Using the Values Cards
• Arranging Your Values Cards
• Sorting Your Values
• Personal and Organizational Values
• My Top Six Values
• Discussion Questions
Section 3 - Creating Team Values
• Team Values Exercise
• Aligning Organizational & Team Values
• Values to Action
• Sample Value Statements
• Turning Insight Into Action
In an informal survey Karl Bimshas Consulting asked established leaders to rank the leadership attributes they considered crucial for an ideal leader to possess. They were then asked to select which attributes they had.
This chapter discusses theories of leadership traits and behaviors. It introduces the trait approach which suggests that certain personal traits like optimism and integrity are associated with effective leadership. However, traits alone are not enough to guarantee success. Behavioral theories focus on what leaders do rather than inherent qualities. Key behaviors explored include autocratic vs democratic leadership styles as well as consideration for people versus focus on tasks. Overall leadership effectiveness depends on the situation, combining different traits and behaviors as needed.
The document discusses the roles of an inspirational leader. An inspirational leader provides an inspiring vision, strategic alignment, and helps people connect personal goals to business goals. They make innovation a priority, encourage entrepreneurship and experimentation, empower and trust employees, coach people to achieve more, promote teamwork and diversity, motivate and recognize people, encourage risk-taking, and make business fun. An inspirational leader promotes a culture where people value themselves, each other, the company and customers.
White paper 2018 - 2019 LEE HECHT HARRISON ( LHH ) Elevating women in leader...Michal Hatina
Organizations need to pull several levers at the individual, cultural and organizational levels to make meaningful change. Women need to believe that leadership is a possible career path for them and engage in deliberate ongoing planning. Leaders need to actively champion female talent and create opportunities for women to grow and advance. Organizations must continue to support women in their development, offer meaningful formal practices and hold leaders accountable for creating an inclusive environment. When these initiatives are implemented effectively, movement will occur.
Comparing and Contrasting Servant Leadership StylesCraig Burrell
This document compares servant leadership styles between Jesus Christ and modern concepts. It finds that while there are similarities in priorities like serving followers, modern servant leadership is missing key components like witnessing one's faith and transforming society. An effective leadership model incorporates Jesus' leadership qualities like maintaining integrity, inspiring service to a higher purpose, and cultivating disciples to transform people and society.
A sample of 15 of 200 leadership slides in my full set.
Go to my website www.andrewgibbons.co.uk for hundreds of free downloads and to access all 6000 slides in 18 sets including customer service; mentoring; change; performance management, and coaching.
A Focus on Change
Change is a process of building ownership and capacity in others as you proceed. School improvement efforts focus on the culture of the school with a focus on student achievement and corresponding instructional improvement. Schools cannot improve in isolation – they need to connect with other schools and link to district support, resources and policy implementation. Quality Leadership is needed at all levels, i.e., district, schools and classrooms.
The Six Secrets of Success
The six secrets of success are interrelated and overlapping. They reinforce each other and result in multiple payoffs. Secret One is to love your employees. Secret Two is to connect peers with purpose. Secret Three is capacity building prevails over judgmentalism.
Great Leaders Around the World & Their Leadership Stylebadhon11-2104
This presentation discusses leadership styles of several famous leaders such as Tim Cook, MS Dhoni, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Che Guevara, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Alexander the Great. It outlines important leadership lessons from each, including the importance of diversity, transparency, admitting mistakes, taking risks, experimentation, and leading from the front. The presentation concludes that true leadership is about inspiring and guiding others by example through opening one's heart.
"I'm the boss!"
It's a common mistake to think management is defined by formal authority—the ability that comes with a title to impose your will on others. In fact, formal authority is a useful but limited tool.
People Want More Than a Formal, Authority-Based Relationship with the Boss
Many managers—especially those who were achievement-driven stars as individual performers—don't even think about relationships. They're so task oriented that they put the work to be done and their authority as boss at the heart of what they do and assume they can ignore the human aspects of working with others.
The problem is that most people don't want your authority to be the be-all and end-all of the relationship. They want a personal, human connection, an emotional link. They want you to care about them as individuals. They want you to encourage their growth and development. Research tells us this kind of human relationship with the boss is a key factor determining an employee's level of engagement with the work.
We know of a small-company owner, a warm, decent woman, so pressed for time she consciously decided to avoid small talk at the office. She never opened up to people about herself or asked about their lives and interests. She didn't, that is, until her people rose up and expressed, through an intermediary, that they hated how she treated them. They wanted a real human connection with her, even if she was "the boss."
Leadership is a complex concept that involves influencing others to achieve goals. Effective leadership requires skills like communication, vision, integrity, and motivation. Leaders must inspire trust and lead by example. Management provides structure and resources but does not necessarily require followership. While related, leadership and management are distinct, with leadership focusing more on human relationships and adaptation. True leadership cannot be reduced to formulas and requires an artful application of behaviors tailored to each situation.
Strengths-based leadership development is the biggest revolution in the leadership development field in the last 50 years. We didn't pick up pitch forks or arms, but we have joined the revolution.
This chapter discusses moral leadership and leadership courage. It explores how leaders can act ethically by focusing on principles like serving others, honesty, and fairness. Leaders set the ethical tone for their organizations and face pressures that challenge their ability to do what is right. The chapter also covers developing moral courage and examining one's own stage of moral development to become a better leader. Ideas like servant leadership that emphasize serving followers are presented as well.
This document provides an overview of followership and different types of followers. It discusses how expectations of followers have changed over time as employees want more meaningful work. It also explains that everyone plays the role of follower at some point, and effective followers can become future leaders. The document then covers psychological reasons for why people follow, including cost-benefit analyses, compliance with authority, trust, and identification with leaders. It introduces the Curphy-Roellig model of followership that identifies four types of followers based on their level of critical thinking and engagement: self-starters, brown-nosers, critics, and slackers. Self-starters are described as the most effective followers who are passionate, think of improvements, and solve
Servant Leadership Principles - Fostering a Culture of AgilityLen Lagestee
The phrase “servant leadership” is frequently used when current leadership styles (typically command-and-control) clash with an emerging culture of empowerment and self-organization. “We need our leaders to embody servant leadership” is a comment I recently heard. But what is servant leadership? Do people really know what they are asking for?
Let's take a look at a few of the principles from the book Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf.
This example illustrates Herzberg's two-factor theory. Specifically, it relates to the hygiene factors dimension. Patient satisfaction survey scores measure things like working conditions, company policies, and interpersonal relationships - which Herzberg classified as hygiene factors. When hygiene factors are poor, work is dissatisfying. In this case, if patient satisfaction scores are low, it could indicate dissatisfying working conditions, policies, or relationships for patients. The government is using patient satisfaction scores/hygiene factors to determine Medicare reimbursement rates as a way to reduce dissatisfaction among patients and healthcare providers. However, according to Herzberg's theory, while addressing hygiene factors can reduce dissatisfaction, it does not necessarily improve satisfaction or motivation on its own
The document discusses qualities of good and bad leaders. Good leaders that people follow freely have qualities like experience, empathy, vision, inspiration, honesty and motivation. Bad leaders people are unwilling to follow are corrupt, closed-minded, dishonest, selfish and arrogant. The document also contrasts winners versus losers and discusses different levels of leadership, with level 5 leaders embodying humility and ambition for the organization.
This document contains 162 professionals' opinions on the difference between management and leadership. Key differences highlighted include:
- Management focuses on efficiency, tasks, and goals while leadership focuses on vision, inspiring change, and effectiveness.
- Managers direct resources and delegate tasks, while leaders motivate others and inspire action through vision and role modeling.
- Management is a role or responsibility, while leadership can come from any level and is about influence rather than position.
- The best organizations value both management and leadership working together to achieve goals and drive change.
The document discusses the creation of the Centre for Corporate Spiritual Responsibility (CSpR), the first of its kind in the world. CSpR was launched to address issues like lack of employee engagement, meaningfulness in work, and stress/burnout through developing spiritual intelligence in organizations. It summarizes research showing benefits of workplace spirituality like improved productivity, creativity, and satisfaction. CSpR aims to help individuals and corporations realize their interconnectedness and operate from a holistic spiritual system perspective rather than just a materialistic one. Its objectives include providing assessment/intervention services, education, research, and advising corporations on developing workplace spirituality.
This document discusses a blog series by Ed Brenegar on leadership questions. It begins by explaining that Brenegar's blog is titled "Leading Questions" because questions are at the core of his work. He then wrote down questions about leadership and posted them daily for readers to ponder. The document outlines 10 assumptions that Brenegar brings to leadership and says the purpose is to think more clearly about leadership. It encourages readers to discover new ways of transforming themselves in their leadership roles.
Management involves planning, budgeting, organizing staff and resources, and controlling processes to efficiently achieve goals. Leadership involves setting a vision and direction, aligning people behind the vision through inspiration and motivation, and influencing change. While managers focus on systems and processes, leaders focus more on people and culture. Effective organizations need both management and leadership working together.
A Managers Guide to a Cascading Team Values Conversation
This is a guide for a manager to conduct a values conversation/ workshop with his or her team. The values conversation will take from 1 1/2 to 3 hours. The purpose is to clarify the values that will help the team move toward their highest level of performance.
In the conversation, the team will
• Explore their personal values about teamwork
• Create a team values statement
• Come to agreement about what those values mean in action
Table of Contents
Section 1 - Setting the Stage
• Values (sm)
• Leading a Values Conversation .
• Clarifying Your Values
• Values are the Foundation for Success
• Values Replace Rules
• Values Provide Guidance
• Aligned Values
• Change of Values
• Values Into Action
• Value Conflicts
Section 2 - Personal Values Exploration
• Cascading Valuessm to Your Team
• High Performance Team Exercise
• Introduction to the Values Cards
• Personal Values Exploration
• Using the Values Cards
• Arranging Your Values Cards
• Sorting Your Values
• Personal and Organizational Values
• My Top Six Values
• Discussion Questions
Section 3 - Creating Team Values
• Team Values Exercise
• Aligning Organizational & Team Values
• Values to Action
• Sample Value Statements
• Turning Insight Into Action
In an informal survey Karl Bimshas Consulting asked established leaders to rank the leadership attributes they considered crucial for an ideal leader to possess. They were then asked to select which attributes they had.
This chapter discusses theories of leadership traits and behaviors. It introduces the trait approach which suggests that certain personal traits like optimism and integrity are associated with effective leadership. However, traits alone are not enough to guarantee success. Behavioral theories focus on what leaders do rather than inherent qualities. Key behaviors explored include autocratic vs democratic leadership styles as well as consideration for people versus focus on tasks. Overall leadership effectiveness depends on the situation, combining different traits and behaviors as needed.
The document discusses the roles of an inspirational leader. An inspirational leader provides an inspiring vision, strategic alignment, and helps people connect personal goals to business goals. They make innovation a priority, encourage entrepreneurship and experimentation, empower and trust employees, coach people to achieve more, promote teamwork and diversity, motivate and recognize people, encourage risk-taking, and make business fun. An inspirational leader promotes a culture where people value themselves, each other, the company and customers.
White paper 2018 - 2019 LEE HECHT HARRISON ( LHH ) Elevating women in leader...Michal Hatina
Organizations need to pull several levers at the individual, cultural and organizational levels to make meaningful change. Women need to believe that leadership is a possible career path for them and engage in deliberate ongoing planning. Leaders need to actively champion female talent and create opportunities for women to grow and advance. Organizations must continue to support women in their development, offer meaningful formal practices and hold leaders accountable for creating an inclusive environment. When these initiatives are implemented effectively, movement will occur.
Comparing and Contrasting Servant Leadership StylesCraig Burrell
This document compares servant leadership styles between Jesus Christ and modern concepts. It finds that while there are similarities in priorities like serving followers, modern servant leadership is missing key components like witnessing one's faith and transforming society. An effective leadership model incorporates Jesus' leadership qualities like maintaining integrity, inspiring service to a higher purpose, and cultivating disciples to transform people and society.
A sample of 15 of 200 leadership slides in my full set.
Go to my website www.andrewgibbons.co.uk for hundreds of free downloads and to access all 6000 slides in 18 sets including customer service; mentoring; change; performance management, and coaching.
A Focus on Change
Change is a process of building ownership and capacity in others as you proceed. School improvement efforts focus on the culture of the school with a focus on student achievement and corresponding instructional improvement. Schools cannot improve in isolation – they need to connect with other schools and link to district support, resources and policy implementation. Quality Leadership is needed at all levels, i.e., district, schools and classrooms.
The Six Secrets of Success
The six secrets of success are interrelated and overlapping. They reinforce each other and result in multiple payoffs. Secret One is to love your employees. Secret Two is to connect peers with purpose. Secret Three is capacity building prevails over judgmentalism.
Great Leaders Around the World & Their Leadership Stylebadhon11-2104
This presentation discusses leadership styles of several famous leaders such as Tim Cook, MS Dhoni, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Che Guevara, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Alexander the Great. It outlines important leadership lessons from each, including the importance of diversity, transparency, admitting mistakes, taking risks, experimentation, and leading from the front. The presentation concludes that true leadership is about inspiring and guiding others by example through opening one's heart.
"I'm the boss!"
It's a common mistake to think management is defined by formal authority—the ability that comes with a title to impose your will on others. In fact, formal authority is a useful but limited tool.
People Want More Than a Formal, Authority-Based Relationship with the Boss
Many managers—especially those who were achievement-driven stars as individual performers—don't even think about relationships. They're so task oriented that they put the work to be done and their authority as boss at the heart of what they do and assume they can ignore the human aspects of working with others.
The problem is that most people don't want your authority to be the be-all and end-all of the relationship. They want a personal, human connection, an emotional link. They want you to care about them as individuals. They want you to encourage their growth and development. Research tells us this kind of human relationship with the boss is a key factor determining an employee's level of engagement with the work.
We know of a small-company owner, a warm, decent woman, so pressed for time she consciously decided to avoid small talk at the office. She never opened up to people about herself or asked about their lives and interests. She didn't, that is, until her people rose up and expressed, through an intermediary, that they hated how she treated them. They wanted a real human connection with her, even if she was "the boss."
Leadership is a complex concept that involves influencing others to achieve goals. Effective leadership requires skills like communication, vision, integrity, and motivation. Leaders must inspire trust and lead by example. Management provides structure and resources but does not necessarily require followership. While related, leadership and management are distinct, with leadership focusing more on human relationships and adaptation. True leadership cannot be reduced to formulas and requires an artful application of behaviors tailored to each situation.
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Leadership Development Plan
Grading Rubric
MGMT 6012.91B
Organization Behavior and Leadership
Spring 2015
Instructor: Dr. Charles W. Creamer
The focus of the paper is derived from the seminal article (George, B., Sims, P., McLean, A.N., & Mayer, D. 2007. Discovering Your Authentic Leadership. HBR.).
Specifically, you are being asked to respond to the questions that appear in this article on page 134. Here you will find eight (8)-questions that you must respond to in an astute and thorough manner.
The following represent the guidelines for your paper:
1. Present a cover page which you should have in your possession from the prototype provided to you.
2. Your paper should include an Abstract which should not exceed 140 words in total.
3. Utilize the questions as subtopics and then proceed to respond to same.
4. Refrain whenever possible from using the pronoun (I) except in your conclusion.
5. The total number of pages is up to you, but someone in the class will establish the “gold standard” so please be ever-cognizant of this.
6. The submission must include at least two (2)-scholarly sources (3-if you prefer). Bear in mind that Anonymous, http, and Wikipedia will not be accepted and your grade will be adversely affected.
7. The final submission must include a conclusion which should be at least ¾ of the page in length.
8. You must have a References listing to accompany the submission.
9. The ENTIRE paper must be APA 5th edition compliant.
The grading rubric for this project is as follows:
Does the submission have clarity? 30 percentage points
Is the verbal presentation exemplary? 25 percentage points
Does the writer thoroughly answer the question(s) presented? 20 percentage points
Is the paper free of spelling and grammar errors? 10 percentage points
Is the document APA compliant? 10 percentage points
Does the document have the required number of 5 percentage points
scholarly sources?
Total ----- 100 percentage points
Please be aware that this submission also requires a 3 to 5 minute classroom oral presentation which will be performed on the last day of class.
Good luck and I’m certain that you will find this assignment that will be one that serves you very well in both your personal and professional lives.
For your convenience, below is the link to the aforementioned article.
Thanks.
Dr. Creamer
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This document discusses contingency management as a treatment for substance abuse issues. While contingency management has shown short-term effectiveness, more research is needed to demonstrate long-term benefits and sustained results. Relapse is a particular issue for treatments like smoking addiction. Developing schemes to combat relapse and create more effective intervention programs is important. Contingency management is also not as well known as other addiction treatments, so increasing public awareness of it could help more substance users seek treatment. Providing alternative rewards beyond just money or vouchers, like meals or employment assistance, may also help treatment centers while potentially being more cost effective than other addiction treatment options in the long run.
Anthony wrote the average investor should be checking out the ca.docxrossskuddershamus
Anthony wrote: "the average investor should be checking out the cash flows statement in general to understand the general trend and solidity of a company. Accrual basis data doesn't give nearly as much foresight into future projections of how a company". As indicated in Anthony's response, the statement of cash flows shows the uses and sources of: cash during for the operating, investing, and financing activities of a company. The balance sheet and income statement are prepared using the accrual basis of accounting.
The statement above regarding the investor's assessment of the general trend and solidity of a company is assuming that all cash transactions are correctly classified as operating, investing or financing activities on the statement of cash flows. Take a look at the ethics case presented in BYP 12-9 that appears in the Broadening Your Perspective section at the end of Chapter 12 in the WileyPLUS Readings or on page 683 in the eBook version. The ethics case provides additional information than presented below, which are the key points of the case.
The board policy requires the statement of cash flows for Templeton Automotive shows that net cash from operating activities exceeds $1 million dollars. However, the net cash from operating activities amounts to $970,000. The president of the company asks Nick, the controller if there is any way to increase the operating cash flows by $30,000 or more.
"Upon close scrutiny of the statement of cash flows, Nick concludes that he can get the operating cash flows above $1 million by reclassifying a $60,000, 2-year note payable listed in the financing activities section as "Proceeds from bank loan--$60,000." He will report the note instead as "Increase in payables--$60,000" and treat it as an adjustment of net income in the operating activities section." (Kimmel, 2013)
Class, how does the misclassification of a financing activity as an operating activity on the statement of cash flows impact the decision making process of an external user as to the financial status of the company?
Reference
Kimmel, P. D. (2013). Financial accounting: Tools for business decision making. Retrieved from University of Phoenix eBook Collection.
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