Is a strong personality or physique necessary to be a strong leader? Can someone deficient in many typical leadership traits actually generate a strong following? Well let’s think about the different types of leaders that currently exist, and analyse their traits to see whether power, courage, strength and confidence is actually essential to being a […]

Mentoring programs establish the self-trust and even that the self-assurance of a mentee who uses it as a tool designed for individual as well as qualified improvement. There\’s certainly many plus points you could expect from joining a mentoring program because you\’ll learn from someone who contains the necessary experience to coach you on what […]

Some believe that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who lead and those who follow. In some ways, this is true. After all, there are no leaders if there are no followers. The main question is, which of these two are you going to be? The answer to that is up […]

The worst assumption that managers can make about their area of responsibility is that they know everything that is going on in the department. In reality, they only know what their people want them to know or think they need to know. Managers who are approachable will find out about problems and issues before they […]

Now do I have your attention? I’ve written on the subject of motivation and incentives in the past, but recently have come across some additional information and research that continues to challenge conventional business wisdom as it relates to use of monetary incentives to encourage higher performance. In my almost 40 years of business experience, […]

I do not make New Year’s resolutions. I find that the process of deciding what I want to accomplish in the next year is much more intense than simply coming up with a few “like to do’s” for the coming year. Rather, at the end of each year, I evaluate my business and my life […]

Organizing and planning are linked in many ways and mutually dependent. The main difference is that planning concerns itself with deciding what work is to be done while organizing concerns itself primarily with the arrangements for getting it done. From a human resource utilization viewpoint, it is necessary for managers to raise a number of […]

Leadership helps and it’s vital for organizations to invest in training their leaders as this will decide the performance of their employees and of course this will impact on the success of the organization. Most people say that leadership cannot be trained as it comes naturally. Though this may be partly true every leader need […]

Charismatic leadership is a quality or a power to command something mainly a group of people to achieve the desired results of a common effort. It is a way to regulate someone in order to comply with the rules and procedures planned to make the vision achievable. It also ensures that there must be unity […]

In the self-help industry, Dr. Stephen R. Covey is a well-known speaker and author of subjects on becoming a successful individual. He is, after all, a successful person himself with his seminal work The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People being one of the highest-selling books in the industry. Now, 18 years after its publication […]