Why Leaders Talk With Their Hands
Photo credit (above): -5m | Flickr [Posted on Leaderonomics.com on an earlier date] By CAROL KINSEY GOMAN Have you ever noticed that when people are passionate about what they’re saying, their gestures...
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Give It All You’ve Got
10 Ways to ensure high quality work It’s the start of a new year with yet another chance to chart your career and ensure that top quality work is produced in your organisation. They say talent breeds...
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Swinging Into The New Year!
Photo credit: James Lee at jameslsy.com 5 Leadership lessons you can learn from Swing Dance By JAMES LEE I love dancing. I’ve always been involved in dance performances, choreography and competitions...
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Feedback As An Art
By LOUISA DEVADASON The art of giving feedback is a pivotal but often tedious skill that everyone should cultivate. It isn’t just for leaders or managers; it is also for people who want to elevate and...
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Are You Growing Or Killing Your Organisation?
By ANDREW LAU Every organisation goes through the cycles of startup, growth, success, decline and, if recovery doesn’t set in, failure. While we can’t control market forces that lead our organisations...
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The Great Leader’s Guide To Connecting Emotionally With Others
By JOHN C MAXWELL No matter what your goals are, communicating with others in a meaningful way can help you. On the other hand, if you can’t communicate, it will cost you. For the person who aims to...
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How To Manage By Doing Nothing
By WALTER CHEN Mark Zuckerberg may be the poster child for entrepreneurial success as a young person, but he had to hire a chief executive officer (CEO) coach and learn how to lead. Along his meteoric...
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Salvage A Ruined Working Relationship In 4 Easy Steps
What to do when workplace relationships turn sour By CHRISTOPHER MOORE In the wonderful world of work, sometimes relationships fracture. It happens for all kinds of reasons; an argument during a...
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Infographic: 7 Ways To Craft The Perfect Email Signature
Though countless emails are sent every day, many people don’t give their email signature much consideration. However, conveying the right corporate image – big or small – requires thought, so up your...
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Keeping Your Leadership Development On Track
And why most programmes fail By SANJEEV NANAVATI Are you an effective leader? Context matters. Just consider the departure of Antony Jenkins as chief executive of Barclays in Jul 2015. A different set...
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When To Bring It Up — When To Let It Go
By DAN ROCKWELL Leaders who bring up every little failure, issue, or shortcoming are irritating nags. They can’t let it go. When you blab on about trivialities, talented people want to pull their hair...
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9 Mistakes That Make Good Employees Quit
By DR TRAVIS BRADBERRY It’s pretty incredible how often you hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving, and they really do have something to fret about—few things are as costly and...
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How Do You Support A Self-directed Workplace?
By LOUISA DEVADASON A manager is originally defined as “a person responsible for controlling or administering an organisation or group of staff.” Honestly, who would align himself to be stifled in...
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11 Things Smart People Won’t Say
By TRAVIS BRADBERRY There are some things you simply never want to say at work. There’s no taking them back once they slip out, either. I’m not talking about shocking slips of the tongue, off-colour...
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4 Lessons To Learn From ‘The Intern’ As An Intern
By TAMARA JAYNE When I first saw the trailer of this movie, I thought it would just naturally be another The Devil Wears Prada, seeing as the same actress, Anne Hathaway, is also in The Intern. The...
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Do Talkers Get Promoted More?
The key to getting ahead at work By SANDY CLARKE Remember that time you walked into a networking event and were met by a roomful of discreet, quiet and measured professionals? Me neither. Such events...
View ArticleHow To Deal With Someone Taking Credit For Your Work
By MIKE FIGLIUOLO When someone else takes credit for your work, there are four steps you must take: seek clarification, request it to be fixed, get mad, then get over it. We’ve all had that experience...
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9 Habits Of Profoundly Influential People
By TRAVIS BRADBERRY Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves. We see only their...
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The Science Of Persuasion In Leadership
By NG YIN LU Persuasion, the attempt to change one’s attitude via the use of different kinds of messages, occurs at all levels of society. This could be national leaders influencing citizens’ voting...
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Embracing differences and uniting for a common cause By LOUISA DEVADASON Warning: Contains spoilers! The newly-released Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has been a much-buzzed-about film. Everyone...
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