Sometimes, in our journey as a leader or manager, we may have achieved tremendous success. It may have been the completion of a big project, or the achievement of a certain milestone. Either way, it may have somehow caused us to become complacent. Rather than doing what have brought us to success, we choose to rest on our laurels, thinking that we are too good and such trivial issues are beneath us. Slowly, we loose the virtues that took us to where we were, and our complacency soon brought about …

Improve yourself by going outside your comfort zone

Your comfort zone is exactly what it sounds like, places or situations where you feel comfortable in, while there is nothing wrong with comfort zones in order to expand our potential and succeed in life we sometimes have to move out of our comfort zone and into unfamiliar territory. Only by pushing ourselves to do something new or which we are afraid of can we develop and improve ourselves. The first step to take in venturing outside of your comfort zone is …

At the point our body and our senses (eyes, ears, touch, etc.) meet the world lies a crossroads. At this very point we experience a constant, two-way flow from the…

Outside in-situations, actions and events in their environment
Inside out-how we feel, interpret, process these situations and decide on our response

Kevin Cashman talks about this intersection as it applies to leaders. On the one hand, a leader’s environment obviously affects what goes on in the leader’s mind and, in return, the leader’s …

Baseball Manager Terry Francona’s leadership was key to the Red Sox success in sweeping the World Series. Separately, reporters Kevin Thomas of The Portland Press Herald and Jackie Macmullan of The Boston Globe published compelling portrayals of Francona. Here are eight essential lessons in leadership for any situation, illustrated by Francona’s winning example in their stories.
1. Stay calm. Francona is known for his patient temperament, even in the face of high stakes games. Players report that the boss’s patience helps them win. When you’re calm, those who work with you, …

As leaders and managers, among the best means to demonstrate respect for our team members is simply to show trust in them. This way of demonstrating respect works at the level of respecting the capabilities of one, and is hence a very powerful leadership lesson we can learn to employ to demonstrate respect in our workplace.
Let us take for example, Francis, who works in a human resource team. Adam, her manager, assigned her to see to the planning of the reception for the company’s Family Day outing to the beach. …

All through my journey as a leader and a leadership consultant, I was often asked the question, “How did you manage to be so successful? How did you manage to achieve what so many failed to?”
Indeed, it seemed to many that I was naturally gifted with impressive leadership capabilities and the ability to lead masses. It almost seemed to them that I was born with the amazing gifts of being able to command respect and inspire confidence. Cruel as it may sound, the limiting belief that the achievements of some …

While many of us are happy in life and do accomplish to some extent what we set out to do, there aren’t many that actually push themselves that little bit further and go on to develop their full potential. While we might be particularly good at doing certain things in life we could excel if only we had the courage and belief in ourselves to go for it.
As children we are full of excellent ideas, they never stop flowing because we have an open mind and belief in ourselves that …

A transformational leader is the opposite of a transactional leader. A transformational leader is one who motivates his team by inspiring loyalty and confidence in them. He takes the operations of the team to greater heights by working on the units that run the operations- people.
A transformational leader works his team through inspiration and persuasion. Rather than using the carrot-and-stick method of motivation, the transformational leader chooses to persuade his team to follow him via inspiring the team to gain confidence in him and themselves, allowing them to willingly commit …

Many people are put off from achieving what they really want to do in life simply because they do not have belief in themselves that they can, for these people the words “if only” are their first thought. Little do they realize that they have the power within themselves to accomplish anything if they are willing to change themselves?
Simply by changing how you think and feel gives you the power to change your life to the one you want, where everything is possible and within reach. Too often people think …