Team Building Exercises For New Groups
By Richard Highsmith
When a group is created, the members must build trust among themselves. A facilitator can move this process along through a variety of team building exercises.
What Are The Personality Traits Of A Good Team Leader?
December 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
What Are The Personality Traits Of A Good Team Leader?
By Mike Krutza Co-Author: Jodi Wiff
The Special Role Of A Leader
It is easy to become a manager, unlike becoming a team leader. When you are a manager, you are qualified with your high-end credentials in your resume.
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Developing a New Leader
December 18, 2011 By 1 Comment
Developing a New Leader
By Bob Mason
For some inexplicable reason, there is a tendency to pick someone as the next manager and give them no training for their leadership role. [Read more...]
Why The First Thing A New Leader Should Do Is Set Goals
December 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Why The First Thing A New Leader Should Do Is Set Goals
By Richard Brody
Having trained over a thousand leaders in the last thirty plus years, I have spent considerable time emphasizing the need for a leader to create and set realistic, yet meaningful goals. [Read more...]
What Makes a Good Team Leader?
December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What Makes a Good Team Leader?
By Will Edwards
If there is a single characteristic that sums up what makes a good team leader, it is encapsulated in the little word, trust.
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Effective Transition From Employee to Leader
November 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
Effective Transition From Employee to Leader
By Kreg Enderson
Changing roles from employee to leader can be fun and very rewarding. It usually brings about more pay, more responsibility, and prestige. [Read more...]
Teamwork Development for New Managers and Supervisors
November 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Teamwork Development for New Managers and Supervisors
By Tony Jacowski
Leading a team of people toward a specific goal is different than managing daily activities, even if there has always been a crew of people on staff.
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Not Everyone Can Effectively Supervise Others
October 18, 2011 By 2 Comments
Not Everyone Can Effectively Supervise Others
By Deborah Laurel
Supervisors typically have the responsibility to plan, guide, assign, train, evaluate, hire, discipline and fire. These skills can be taught and learned. [Read more...]
Five Key Conversations to Have With Your New Boss
October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Five Key Conversations to Have With Your New Boss
By Kevin Eikenberry
If you’ve just been promoted, this is obviously for you. If you have been in your role for awhile, but your relationship and communication with your boss/supervisor/leader isn’t perfect, this will be of great help to you too.
Maintaining a Positive Workplace Environment
September 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
Maintaining a Positive Workplace Environment
By Tony Jacowski
Happy employees are generally more productive than unhappy ones. When employees come to work only to get the paycheck at the end of the week, they are not going to give everything they have into their daily workload.
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Management by Walking About
August 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
Management by Walking About
By Amy BC Tan
"People leave bad managers, not companies…" is one of the results of a famous Gallup survey conducted at corporations in the US. This does not mean we have "bad" people as managers. It rather means that not every high-performing employee is really suitable for a managerial position. Other surveys have shown that less than 30% of high performers have the ability to do well as supervisor.
Critical Soft Skills for New Team Leaders
August 24, 2011 By 5 Comments
Critical Soft Skills for New Team Leaders
By Jackie Capers-Brown
"Emotional competence is the single most important personal quality that each of us must develop and access to experience a breakthrough. Only through managing our emotions can we access our intellect and our technical competence.
