Why leadership development… Improving leadership development programs, growing talent internally and enhancing effectiveness of the senior management team are some of the top challenges on the minds of CEO’s, alongside business growth. We need great leaders to shape and sustain our organizations and to mould our future leaders. We need leaders leading with a winning […]
Category: LEADERSHIP
4 Uncommon Ways To Motivate an Underperforming Employee
Ordinary leaders believe that if some employees are under-performing, you must fire them. But not you! Underperformance is very common nowadays due to the increasing levels of stress and competition. Sadly, performance issues and employees spirit are too often ignored by leadership due to the endless battle for a bigger market share, decreasing costs and […]
Is There a Place for Team Leadership Within Today’s High-tech, Fast Moving World of International Business?
The term leadership generally evokes thoughts of both famous and infamous personalities from world history. Whether pioneers of nations, great religious ambassadors, the peace-makers or founding fathers of modern industry; all hold a number of common traits. Having the ability to inspire followers, to make timely and decisive decisions and always be seen to “do […]
Stop Training Your Leaders!
As a business owner who makes a living partly from training leaders, I give myself full permission to write this article and accept any consequences as a result of businesses changing the way they look at developing their leaders! A colossal, money-making area of training is leadership. If I had one Dirham for every time […]
Best Practice Leadership Training – An Investment in Mediocrity?
Are leaders born or made? This common trait theory of leadership has been debated for decades. Current scholars seem to accept that while some future leaders may be born with relevant leadership traits, this may not be a critical component to guarantee future effective leadership. Arguments are frequently made that through extensive leadership training programs, […]
Self-promotion: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle for Future Female Leaders
Having delivered a number of Google’s #IamRemarkable workshops, where all but one of the participants were female, I have seen first-hand that many women still find it challenging to talk openly about their achievements. But why do so many of us struggle with this? And why don’t we realise that there is direct link between […]
Taking A Holistic Look At The Motivation Of Leaders And Teams Through The Four Quadrants
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. -Lao Tzu A few years ago, I had the chance to coach the CFO of an international organization in India during a project that covered many countries. The main theme we worked on was the relationship with his team […]
Case Study: Terminating Employment Contracts
Today, in light of the current realities, I would like to share with you my experience on how to terminate employment contracts. Much of this “christomatic” layoff is due to our CEO. It happened in 2010, at the height of the financial crisis. We received a circular from the head office to reduce the number […]
5 Key Traits of a Leader in the New Normal
Flexible, resilient, nimble- words that were used to describe athletes in the past. Yet today, these are some key words which are becoming increasingly important leadership traits in the ‘new normal’ VUCA world we now live in. The past year brought unprecedented exposure to leaders across the world and many that emerged as successful leaders […]
What does it mean to be a leader in an uncertain world?
To quote the great John C. Maxwell, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” In these unprecedented times, leadership should not be defined by an individual’s title, level, or tenure but by the impact they make on their team members. It is neither a rat race to […]