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Stop doing this immediately if you want to be a successful leader
As a leader and in your companies this Growth mindset translates to being comfortable with feedback, accepting and admitting failure, collaborating rather than competing and learning from your mistakes. We see your Growth Mindset as an essential part of the Competency Continuous Learning. If you’re not quite there yet, we will show you how.
The Painful Hidden Cost of Conflict and how to escape it
The tangible things that impact the bottom line are what we focus on. A drop in Sales, a ineffective Product, we have hard data to hand and we move into action. What do we do when it’s difficult to quantify, such as understanding how much conflict actually costs us? Let’s find out and face this corrosive and costly issue head on…
How to avoid the devastating affect of being an angry Leader
At The Complete Leader Ireland, we recommend focusing on your strengths but with the caveat that if there’s a weakness that’s impacting your Leadership now, then it needs to be dealt with. Don’t delay. Now’s the time to address this issue and get back to the business of building your business and making money!
Avoiding written communication nightmares- a how to for Leaders.
Do you remember getting back assignments? The red remarks on school and college papers. It still makes me uncomfortable when I think of it today…and unfortunately these negative experiences can stay with us even as Leaders in our professions and mean we lack confidence when it comes to written communication.
Diplomacy and Tact- 10 Signposts to the Leadership High Road
I want you to pause for a moment and ask yourself a tough question? Are you a Leader who possesses the skills of tact and diplomacy? Are you the type of person who treats others fairly, in a sensitive and effective way?
10 Powerful Tips to Negotiate Effectively as a Leader
Negotiation a really important leadership skill because we need to optimise our relationships inside our organisation, with our customers or vendors. We do this by developing the ability to explore and to identify what everybody wants and by creating new solutions that satisfy everybody’s interests so it’s not compromise, it’s really what we call synergism- where the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts.
The remarkable life- How to live by your values.
Articulating your values #1 As part of our planning process we spend a lot of time working on operating principles or values. Somebody asked me the other day to share some of my values with them and I thought it might be useful to do an Insight on it. I want to...
How to develop presenting skills for leaders
Presenting skills are vital for effective leaders. As Dale Dixon from The Complete Leader points out, in our current climate of 124 character Tweets and short and snappy LinkedIn posts, our way of communicating is changing.
How to develop competencies and improve your planning skills
I have received a lot of questions from people around how to develop your competencies, so I would like to share some insights in this week’s blog. When we talk about developing a competency, we propose that you define the competency as clearly as you possibly can. Think about how you can improve it, develop it and work on it.
4 ways to be more productive: Tips for busy, effective leaders
In this week’s blog we’re covering planning and organising, one of the key competencies of effective leaders under the heading ‘leaders are clear thinkers’. This was one of the competencies that our seminar guests told us that they would like to work on.