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Today's Leadership Challenge
The Leader as a Source of Vision
In today’s environment, now is not the time for short-sighted actions or short-term fixes. When analyzing today’s leadership challenges, we focus on helping leaders demonstrate their leadership and more effectively guide their institutions through critical change. In this “Today’s Leadership Challenge” article, we spotlight the leader as a source of vision.
Today's Leadership Challenge
Are You Leading...or Just Managing? In our last newsletter, we focused on the fact that leaders, not managers are needed to guide organizations and institutions through today’s challenges. This article focuses on those key characteristics that leaders possess that allow them to stand-out, stand-up and effectively lead an organization toward success.
Honesty and Integrity: The Leader as a Source of Values More than ever employees and prospective talent want to work in environments where the leaders are clear on their values and their actions are predictable and consistent with those values. Inevitably, among the top leadership traits that followers admire are the traits of honesty and integrity. Leaders who can demonstrate their honesty and integrity build trust amongst their employees.
Developing Effective Leaders Part One: The Introspective Leader The Developing Effective Leaders Series provides valuable insights into the three key skill sets emerging leaders need to have in order to be effective developers of people. This first article in the series focuses on the introspective leader.
One-on-One Coaching: Will Coaching be Beneficial? In today's competitive marketplace, retention of key employees is critical.
This article explores the value of coaching and how to decide if you have an employee that will benefit from one-on-one coaching.
Leadership Styles for Dealing with People - Part 1 Do people react differently depending upon how you approach them? Should a leader change his or her style when dealing with different people? Is there an optimum style for influencing others?
Leadership Styles for Dealing with People: Part 2 Do people react differently depending upon how you approach them? Is there an optimum style for influencing others? What is your leadership style? Should a leader change his or her style when interacting with different people and different situations?
Flipping the Pancake: Knowing How to Convert Conflict into Problem Solving
What do you do when you are suddenly approached by a staff member who is furious with a management decision or with something another associate has said or done? We learn how to handle operational and technical crises on the job, but few of us receive any training on how to turn conflict into positive outcomes.
Good Leadership. Good Management. There's a Difference. No campus endeavor better dramatizes higher education’s need for good leaders and good managers than an ERP implementation project. These mission-critical campus projects can take years and consume multiple millions of dollars and resources. This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette
Teamwork Articles
Three Simple Steps to More Effective Meetings No matter what kinds of meetings you chair or attend, three simple steps will help decrease the amount of time you spend in meetings and increase the effectiveness of those meetings.
FLAME: Using Motivation to Build High Performance Team Members Within each person is the often-untapped potential for energy and enthusiasm that produces the high job performance critical to a successful project. Effective leaders are able to release individuals’ potential energy and build teams that are motivated and ready to take on the task at hand.
How a Leadership Team Should Operate What role should leadership teams play within their organizations? Where should a leadership team focus its efforts: on the day-to-day operations or on the strategic direction of the organization? Ironically, most leadership teams know their focus should be strategic, but they continue to deal with immediate crisis after crisis. How do they break the cycle? How do they add value to their organizations and work to avoid managing crises?
What Types of Teambuilding Will Work for Your Team Teambuilding refers to activities that improve the effectiveness of a team by building better working relationships, better understanding and alignment among members, and improved communications and trust. This article outlines the four most often employed methods of teambuilding and makes suggestions about when each method might be appropriate for a particular team that is having difficulties.
Meetings: How to Waste Time at Work Many people don’t understand the value of wasting time at work. They’re afraid of getting caught or fired for being too slack, so they work diligently through the entire workday. Now, there’s a more effective way to waste your time and your team’s time without getting into trouble. Call a meeting.
How Committees Should Operate Margaret Mead once said, "A small group of committed people can make a difference and change the world." That doesn't seem to be the case for many university committees. Some committees work well. Unfortunately, many don't. Poorly run committees waste university time and resources, and sometimes lead to disastrous results. How do effective committees operate? Are there diagnostic tools and remedies for those that don't? This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette
Five Critical Skills for Team Leadership - Part 2 Effective Listening is a Critical Skill for Leading Project Teams This article is Part 2 in a four-part series that covers five critical skills needed for effectively leading teams: understanding behavioral styles, listening effectively, giving praise, accepting criticism, and using problem solving and persuasion instead of criticism. Read on to find out more about how effective listening can help lead a project team.
Five Critical Skills for Team Leadership - Part 4 Using Problem Solving and Persuasion Instead of Criticism when Leading Teams This articleis the final segment in a four-part series that covered five critical skills needed for effectively leading teams: understanding behavioral styles, listening effectively, giving praise, accepting criticism, and using problem-solving and persuasion instead of criticism. Read on to find out more about how to effectively use problem solving and persuasion skills as you lead your teams.
Change Management Articles
Leading a "Readiness for Change" Culture Innovators in higher education regularly face the challenge of instigating progress on campus while at the same time dealing with resistance to change. Institutions with a permanent “readiness for change” culture are better prepared to overcome change resistance. This article describes what it takes to create this culture in your organization.
Change on Campus...Ready or Not Mark Twain once said, “It’s not the progress I mind, it’s the change I don’t like.” This sentiment rings true today on campuses across the country. Innovators in higher education regularly face the challenge of instigating progress on campus while dealing with the natural resistance to change that we humans have. This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette
Navigating Organization Change on an ERP Implementation One of the biggest changes higher education institutions can experience is the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. An ERP system touches every aspect of the operations of an institution and touches every constituent group both inside and outside the institution. As a result, leadership should address the communications, politics, resistance, teamwork, and leadership issues that can provide significant barriers to change, cause delays in project timelines, and hinder the full utilization of the new software functionality.
Five Insights to Foster Change on Your Large Projects or Initiatives Change is inevitable - especially when implementing large-scale institution-wide projects or initiatives. Change occurs during and resulting from these efforts. People are often asked to take on roles that are new to them. They may have to change how they do business or how they do their jobs. So how do you help people manage through large-scale change when most people naturally resist change? In this article, we present five insights to help you effectively manage change resulting from your large projects or initiatives.
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