Meetings can be a joy or a pain. Meetings can make time or take time. Meetings can be an asset or liability. Meetings can add value or take value. Meetings can be exciting or boring. The sheer importance of running effective meetings cannot be further emphasised. Here are five easy and practical ways that as leaders and managers, we may employ to chair meetings efficiently and excitingly.
1. Be Outcome Oriented
Is what you are discussing relevant to the larger picture? Are you still on track? As the chairperson of the meeting …

Your effectiveness as a leader significantly impacts on the results that you deliver. The results that you deliver not only impacts on the success you deliver for your organisation or team but also the personal success you achieve. So what proactive things can you do to become a more effective leader?
Step 1: Do a self assessment
A great quality of effective leaders is self awareness. They know where their strengths are and are also aware of their weaker areas. Start the journey to becoming a more effective leader by carrying out …

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The One Minute Manager

The objective of the book ‘The One Minute Manager’ by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson is to define the effective managers in this dynamic world of business where various external and internal factors influence their performance. The author does it through a search mission of a young man whose quest is to find managers who make both- their organization and people win with their managerial skills. The author talks about a continuum, where one end is occupied by tough or autocratic managers who make their organization win …

Countless articles have been written on the topic of “Leadership by Example”. This just goes to show that leadership by example is not just the more desired form of leadership (though not necessarily the most practiced) but also a more productive style of leadership. However, while these articles address the sheer necessity of leading by example, only a handful of these actually show us how we can take action to lead by example. In this leadership lesson on leading by example, we shall examine five areas of our workplace where …

A leadership lesson on trust, The Speed of Trust by Steven Covey is a MUST READ for leaders who want to find out how they can instill a culture of trust in their team and foster a trusting working relationship within it.
The One Thing that Changes Everything
While traditional business owners define results to be the product of strategy and execution, Steven Covey contends this by showing how results may be killed in the absence of trust, even when there is a strong strategy and efficient execution. Instead, trust should be …

Now, you may be thinking as you read the title, how on Earth is our relationship with our bosses relevant to leadership lessons? After all, we’re all interested in managing our team and business but not our superiors. Well, the reason is simple. The way our boss manages us would affect how we function, and how we ultimately manage our team too. For instance, let’s say our boss does not have much trust in our leadership or management skills and resultantly restricts our freedom in making decisions. He would not …

Winston Churchill is probably no stranger to anyone. He was an inspirational British leader during the Second World War, a noted statesman, officer, historian, writer and artist and the only British Prime Minister to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Throughout history and even today, Winston Churchill is often quoted for his words of wisdom and as we all strive to achieve our purpose in life his famous quotes are an inspiration to us all. Here are a few of my favorites translated so you can apply it to goal achievement …

So far, we have discussed how we can set standards, gain agreement in them, and achieve clarity in them. The final step towards having effective standards would naturally be to enforce them. In this final issue, we shall discover how we can enforce the standards we set so as to create an effective framework and culture for the team to work with.
If you were of the impression that setting standards is the end of it all and the start to a beautiful working culture, you’d be in for a rather …