by Amanda Baines | Jan 19, 2015 | Leadership
As a leader, one of the major challenges you will face is how to successfully develop the people in your organisation. Your team will need to be challenged, supported, encouraged to be creative and allowed to show initiative and make mistakes. You need them to be...
by Amanda Baines | Jan 18, 2015 | Leadership
Most people naturally prefer one leadership style, though in fact there are many. You could choose anything from ‘command and control’ through to full delegation: Telling Selling Supporting Delegating Telling is traditional ‘command and...
by Amanda Baines | Jan 9, 2015 | Leadership, Team Development
Do you hold regular one-to-one meetings with your direct reports? And if you do, how effective are they? We look at what you can do to improve those meetings, and offer you an informative one-page guide to download. Occasionally we hear comments such as ‘Oh yes, we...
by Amanda Baines | Jan 7, 2015 | Leadership
Thanks to Lolly Daskal for this inspiring piece on how to know which questions to ask as a leader: As leaders we are sometimes expected to know all the answers – sometimes even before the questions are known. But buying into that expectation means that we risk...
by Amanda Baines | Jan 2, 2015 | Leadership
Looking to improve y0ur leadership communication skills so you can get ahead in your career? Here are four informative tips to make sure your communication style can be taken to the next level: If it works, don’t fix it When people praise you for your...
