Leadership Skill

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Dr. Harvey Robbins

Friday, April 4th, 2008

A world class speaker, author, and educator, Dr. Robbins focuses on transformational leadership by providing leadership skill training, team building / team leadership training, management development training, and executive coaching. By providing both leadership skill and management skill training, Dr. Robbins covers both the people and the technical side of effective leadership through his series [...]

Leadership Skill: What Motivates People

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I revised this article a year ago…and now it’s time once again to add some additional insigts to what motivates people.  At the end of this article, I will add some additional thoughts that you will find useful as a leader in terms of how to motivate others…
Most people will chime in and say cash. [...]

Leadership Skill: Distrust

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

The very best way to repair a broken bond of trust is to not let it break in the first place. If that is no longer an option, you have a long road ahead of you, winning people back to your confidence. The only way I know is to keep slogging. Tell the truth. Keep [...]

Leadership Skill: Rebalancing the Stress Load

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

There used to be only two schools of thought about increasing groups’ acceptance of change: Pummel and Pamper. Pummel’s attitude about what workers were feeling was basically: Who cares? Pamper went to the opposite extreme, taking responsibility for everything happening in the individual worker’s head.

Leadership Skill: Find a Culture You Like and Copy It

Friday, October 19th, 2007

I frequently get calls asking about organizational culture. These questions usually arise from either a real or imagined crises resulting from some form of merger or acquisition. Whether between departments merging within a shrinking company or between companies joining forces, the issues are similar. Shouts of “I want everyone to be singing from the same [...]

Leadership Skill: The Accidental Partner

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

The economy has stalled. Smaller companies are either being gobbled up or cobbled down. Larger companies are undergoing the largest merger-fest in U.S. history in order to stay globally competitive. Business strategies have been painfully twisted and squeezed to bolster the bottom lines of too many companies with too few customers. The result of all [...]

Leadership Skill #3: How to Set Expectations

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Setting Expectations:  Before you, as a leader, can hold people accountable for outcomes, you have to let them know what success looks like and what you     expect to see as a result of their efforts.  This sound bite gives insights into the reason for the need to set the bar high, when to set them [...]

Leadership Skill #2: How to Motivate Others

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Motivation:  You don’t have to do cartwheels down the hallway or have pom-poms hanging in your office to motivate people to get the outcomes you want.  This sound bite gives you a quick and easy strategy to use to get people motivated “internally”.  Hint:  remember all those “to do” lists you complain about…but do?

Leadership Skill #1: How to Hold People Accountable

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Accountability:  One of the issues I hear about regularly from people in leadership roles is “how do I hold people accountable for outcomes”.  This sound bite gives you an explanation for the two reasons people don’t do things and how to hold their feet to the fire to get the outcomes you require.

Leadership Skill: The Vision Thing

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

I’ve got some good news and some bad. The bad news is that we’re lost. The good news is that we’re making great time.
The point of this old saw is that team talent, efficiency, intelligence, and clout are pretty useless unless the team has some clue where it is going and how it is to [...]

Leadership Skills: The Myth of Leadership

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Leadership is the vessel for many of the worst team myths, for a logical reason. As keepers of the team vision, leaders make up a lot of stuff. Here are some of the worst illusions foisted on us by leaders about leadership
1. Teams require a single individual to lead them.

Leadership Skill: Empowerment Uncertainties

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Between the subjects of goal setting and decision making is an enormous crevasse, into which teams fall, then fester and stink up the joint. This is the area of boundary management - or in the case of team failure, mismanagement.

Leadership Skill: Get a Personality

Monday, September 10th, 2007

There are lots of ways to lead. The best way is to try to lead in a way that takes advantage of your natural personality. In other words, don’t be what you ain’t. Learning how others behave, how they think, what they focus on and find important, however, will make you a better leader.

Get ‘er Done: (Leadership Skill) How to Motivate Others

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

This is the second installment of my current writings on leadership skills. As before, I would appreciate any feedback and/or examples you can provide me. I will be using this and future writings on specific leadership skills to create my next leadership book and include them in future workshops.

Leadership Skill: Why Should I Trust You

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Open invitation:  I’m in the process of writing an e-book about leadership (tentatively titled On My Honor); from both the technical side and the people side.  The people side will be based upon scouting principles…things like trustworthy, loyal, etc…you know the 12 scout laws we learned as kids…and which values seem to be missing in [...]

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