Becoming a Better Leader | Stepshift - Part 4

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Posted in: Becoming a Better Leader, Developing Team Performance with Senior Leadership Teams | Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Finding time to review your leadership performance and understand how to maximize your skills and those of your team can benefit most leaders, no matter how long you have been in a senior position. In these Free Leadership Articles our experienced executive and business coaches share some of the tools and processes that can help you significantly improve your leadership.

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Addressing Under Performance With Leaders

Posted in: Want to take your leadership to the next level?, Leading During Change or Transition | Monday, July 4th, 2011

Organisational structure is driven by individual and team performance. Where that performance is below par it needs to be addressed and not tolerated as it will invariably have a wider negative impact on the business both externally and internally.

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Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

Posted in: Building Emotional Intelligence EQ | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

The foundation of leadership is the ability to impact and influence staff and other stakeholders. This relates to the way they communicate and most of all it relies on their emotional intelligence or EQ. Being a good leader is not sufficient if their impact on other people leaves them feeling demotivated or disengaged.

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Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence

Posted in: Building Emotional Intelligence EQ, Developing Leadership Influence | Thursday, April 28th, 2011

The ability to lead and to influence others to want to follow is developed through a raft of things including competence in the role and the ability to build and maintain the trust of your people. Developing trust and influence in a leadership role also requires emotional intelligence.

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Emotional Intelligence During Leadership Challenges

Posted in: Building Emotional Intelligence EQ, Leading During Change or Transition | Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

During the good times when work is flowing and results are good, the level of a leader’s emotional intelligence is not seriously tested. However, when things get tough, a lack of emotional intelligence will become very obvious and will have an impact beyond the leader to his or her people.

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The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Leadership

Posted in: Building Emotional Intelligence EQ | Monday, February 21st, 2011

To remain effective in a leadership role, leaders should invest time and effort in the continuous development of their emotional intelligence (EQ). Leaders with a good level of EQ can more easily navigate leadership challenges and remain calm, confident and effective.

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How to Improve or Regain Motivation: Coaching Can Help

Posted in: Recapture Your Motivation and Drive | Monday, February 7th, 2011

Whether you are a leader, a member of a team or in business for yourself, being personally motivated is a vital ingredient for your sense of purpose, happiness and ability to achieve at a high level.

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Sustaining Business Performance: Leadership Behaviour Does Count

Posted in: Leading During Change or Transition | Monday, January 31st, 2011

The fundamental purpose of being in business is to perform at a level which delivers significant results for customers, staff and shareholders. From a people perspective how do you achieve those results but also optimise and sustain them?

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Importance of Motivation: Are you Really Satisfied?

Posted in: Recapture Your Motivation and Drive | Monday, January 24th, 2011

For a leader, a sense that you are losing your mojo or motivation can be very scary. Being highly motivated at work is enormously satisfying and productive but even very successful people can lose their drive and energy, and find it difficult to kick-start their motivational engine.

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Leadership or Executive Coaching: Who Needs It?

Posted in: Want to take your leadership to the next level?, Becoming a Better Leader Through Executive Development, Executive Coaching | Monday, January 17th, 2011

Utilising a leadership coach is not an indication that you are an under performer. In sports athletes and teams recognise the value of a good coach for development of technique, strategy, mental application and focus. What benefits do they and thousands of other successful people get from a good coaching relationship?

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