It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions by David Straus describes the principles of collaborative problem solving in organisations. In the book, David describes collaboration as: “the process people employ when working together in a group, organisation, or community to plan, create, solve problems, and make decisions.” [...]
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Facilitation is a key leadership practice in the fast paced, complex and changing environment we live in today. The Systems Thinker Newsletter discusses the importance of adopting a facilitative leadership style, in their article, “The Art of Facilitative Leadership: Maximizing Others’ Contributions” by Jeffrey Cufaude. Leadership traditionally has been thought of as “doing the right [...]
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Research by Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications, a leading provider of advanced communications and information technology (IT) solutions, sponsored by Microsoft, found the following: Collaboration is a key driver of overall performance of companies around the world. Its impact is twice as significant as a company’s aggressiveness in pursuing new market opportunities (strategic [...]
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I found this post from Ed Brenegar from Leading Questions very interesting….. Here are some snippets from the post that caught my eye: EXCELLENCE “Leadership is first and foremost a quality of an individual…….So, the first step along the path to leadership is to recognize that leadership is a product of character, not just skills [...]
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Research by the Hay Insight, Hay Group’s survey research division found that Companies Risk Greater Employee Turnover and Lower Productivity Without Improved Teamwork. “Hay Insight employee opinion research confirms that most organizations today are struggling to establish effective collaboration/teamwork and communication across departments. The current research is based on findings from our database of approximately [...]
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