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Partnerships Create Community Impact

Chery Gegelman — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:08:03 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues

Written by: Becky Robinson, Mike Henry & Chery Gegelman This is the story of how a few people with a big vision are making a difference for the city of Tulsa. It’s a story about partnerships, sharing resources, and making a difference for workers and leaders. It started with Mike Henry, whose vision of bringing [...]

Importance of Leadership Development in “The Individual Age”

Fred Schnook — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:36:15 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues

As the twentieth century came to a close, the industrial age ended as well. Where most employees once worked in large manufacturing firms that relied on rote tasks performed on large assembly lines – from autoworkers to assemblers in all fields, today’s workers are more likely to work in service related jobs that require diverse [...]

The Keys to Managing People Better?

Peter E. Friedes — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:12:44 +0000

Posted in Career Development Leadership Coaching Leadership Development

Theory: all good managers have ready access to two fundamental skill sets—the ability to Relate and the ability to Require. "Relating" encompasses relationship-building behaviors: asking, listening, including, coaching and encouraging. "Requiring" refers to results-oriented activities: creating expectations, focusing on goals, insisting on excellence, setting appropriate controls, asserting your views and confronting problems. Over- or under-utilizing these skills can damage business results and/or relationships.

MicroManaging is NEVER Good

Mike Henry — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:00:59 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development

A couple of months ago, another big name publisher tried to justify petty behavior under the name “leadership.” This time Forbes published an article entitled Sometimes Micromanaging Is Good – And Necessary by Christine M Riordan (click through the advertisement). The subtitle explains further: “But not for long. Here are the times you have to [...]

Where Leadership and Management Meet: Part II

Susan Mazza — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:25:19 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development

This is part 2 of a series on the need for both management and leadership. You can read the first post here. While we often talk about the distinctions between leadership and management, I think we can learn just as much about how to be effective by distinguishing where they converge. When we are working [...]

“I Train Managers to be Good Leaders of People”

Mary C Schaefer — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:36:06 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development

Last night I attended my second Spanish lesson. During our exercise working out how to say our occupation, I got a real eye-opener. My instructor is from Columbia and has been living in the U.S. and speaking English for about 20 years. It took at least 10 minutes of us going back and forth to [...]

Where Leadership and Management Meet

Susan Mazza — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:20:26 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development

Part 1 – The Leadership Myth There is a lot of conversation on the topic of the difference between leadership and management particularly among those who study and/or teach either topic. In the process it seems to me that a myth has been born – that leadership is better than management. I want to thank [...]

Who You Callin’ “We?”

Mike Henry — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:52:29 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development

The more I think about character-based leadership and the leadership traits I want to model, I keep coming back to the gap between who you lead and who you serve. Character-based leaders tend to line those up pretty closely. The question seems to be: How big is your “WE”? You know what I ‘m talking [...]

Give Win First!

Mike Henry — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:36:19 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development Partnerships

We all want to win. No one gets up in the morning and decides, “Today, I think I’d like to lose for a change.” You never tell your spouse, “Honey, I’m so used to losing that today, I’m managing expectations. My goal is to lose. That way, when I lose, I’m a winner!” We use [...]

The Leadership Test – Book Review

Mike Henry — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:00:20 +0000

Posted in Resources Reviews

A book’s length is not a direct indicator of it’s value or depth. Many a lengthy book has put me to sleep and many a short book has had wonderful insights. The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark Ph.D. falls into the later category. It’s a very quick read but it left me with a [...]