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How leaders build trust

14 September 2008

Trust is one of the most critical requirement for effective leadership. Building and sustaining trust in organisations is a critical leadership practice and it’s one the never ends. Dennis and Michelle Reina, founders of the Reina Trust Building Institute and the authors of “Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace”, have developed a model of trust, [...]

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The seven demands of leadership

3 September 2008

After decades of research and thousands of interviews with great leaders, Gallup research discovered seven factors crucial to leadership success which were identified as follows.

Visioning: “Successful leaders are able to look out, across, and beyond the organization. They have a talent for seeing and creating the future. They use highly visual language that paints [...]

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The importance of sensemaking in leadership

15 June 2008

One of the critical leadership capabilities required today is sensemaking, which is defined by Wikipedia as:
“..the ability or attempt to make sense of an ambiguous situation. More exactly, sensemaking is the process of creating situational awareness and understanding in situations of high complexity or uncertainty in order to make decisions.”

The MIT Leadership Center published an [...]

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The Three Journeys of Strategic Change

12 December 2007

The Anecdote Blog has an interesting post discussing "The Three Journeys" that organisations take as they seek to transform and implement their strategy.
 

 
Leader who are striving to bring about change and who are seeking to implement their strategies would do well to consider structuring their approach as the following three journeys:

The first journey is [...]

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How to diagnose your organisation’s readiness for change…..

14 June 2007

Initiating and leading change is one of the greatest leadership challenges. Many change programmes fail long before they’re ever started. I’ve seen many change programmes fail simply because the organisation and it’s people were not ready for the change being thrust upon them. The typical scenario is that the leader is introducing a change the organisation cannot assimilate, [...]

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The MIT Leadership Framework…

20 April 2007

 
The MIT Leadership Center has a great leadership framework, discussed in the article “Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty” by Deborah Ancona, the Director of the MIT Leadership Center. The framework was developed by four MIT Sloan faculty members, Deborah Ancona, Wanda Orlikowski, Peter Senge and Tom Malone and is underpinned by the following four [...]

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A Diagnostic Tool to Help Leaders

6 April 2007

David Maister has a great article describing his recommendations on how an organisation can go about deciding the appropriate leadership style for consideration when selecting new leaders. The purpose of this diagnostic is to “facilitate your firms’ discussions of the characteristics it seeks in a leader“. This type of diagnostic has become necessary as:
 

Organisations often are [...]

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The Army’s Leadership Framework and Philosophy

3 December 2006

The US Army has a clear leadership philosophy, used throughout their organisation to train, develop and guide their leaders. Their leadership philosohy is documented in The U.S. Army’s Leadership Field Manual, affectionately known as “FM 22-100″. The U.S. Army defines leadership as:
“influencing people-by providing purpose, direction, and motivation-while operating to accomplish the mission and improving [...]

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Understanding Leadership Context

8 December 2005

As leaders it’s important to gain an understanding of the context in which we practice leadership. To assist in understanding context the levels of leadership model, illustrated below, is helpful.

In our every days lives we practice leadership at various levels, each requiring a different set of competencies, styles and approach. The various levels of leadership [...]

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