Turning your Top Performers into a Leaders

Good and Great leaders develop more leaders around them. Mervyn Devis says, “unless you can, on a command, write down a list of people you have developed, you may just be in a leadership position by accident”. If you have not yet started invested in developing people, then you must take few minutes to examine what it takes to be a leader who can make significant impact on people and business. How your investment in people can enable and ensure the budding individual blossoms as leaders under your leadership?

Compassion and Leadership

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  Compassion creates positive outcomes in organizations: People who experience compassion feel more committed to the organization and feel more positive emotions at work; when people receive bad news that is delivered with compassion, they remain more supportive of the organization; and acting with compassion can increase your own satisfaction and mitigate your own stress at work, says Roger Schwarz. 

Top Human Resources mistakes leaders make

Leadership is about working through people. To work through people effectively leader must receive cooperation and support from people.  To receive support and cooperation a leader must consistently communicate and demonstrate that people important. When people know they are important and valued they will support and cooperate with the leader to achieve great business results. 

Leaders always have the right answers - Is it True?

Popular perception is that leaders always have the right answers, but this is not true. The truth is,  leaders ask the right questions, enable people to find the right answers and  and point where to find the best answers.

Work Alone or Direct or Collaborative

A recent research indicate that 10% to 15% of the most innovative leaders in the world don’t bother to encourage the people around them to innovate. They often believe their ideas are so much better than their colleagues’ that they see little value in building talent around them. Many also lack the patience required to give others the chance to develop and deliver their ideas, so they do the work alone.

Facebook Usage and its Side Effects

The more someone uses Facebook, the less satisfied he is with life, is the conclusion of a study published by the Public Library of Science, conducted by Ethan Kross. Past investigations have found that using Facebook is associated with jealousy, social tension, isolation and depression.

Is trust synonymous with leadership?

Yes, trust is and must be synonymous with leadership, because: You don’t take risks with people you don’t trust. You don’t cooperate with person you don’t trust. You don’t share your ideas with people you don’t trust. You don’t listen to people you don’t trust. You don’t implement suggestions from people you don’t trust. You don’t follow people you don’t trust.

Is trust synonymous with leadership?

Yes, trust is and must be synonymous with leadership, because: You don’t take risks with people you don’t trust. You don’t cooperate with person you don’t trust. You don’t share your ideas with people you don’t trust. You don’t listen to people you don’t trust. You don’t implement suggestions from people you don’t trust. You don’t follow people you don’t trust.

Leadership Touch – Impacting People

Impacting people in organizations need not be big-bang, every-one-heard, extraordinary moment in which people feel thrilled and pumped up. Such things do work according to situation and context.  Simple, personal, ordinary, every-day-routine things can be used to make a great impact on people in organization. Use such simple and inexpensive everyday activities to communicate and demonstrate that individuals are important and valued and they are welcomed in your organization.

Indicators of Successful and Unsuccessful People

Success should never be the end goal, for it is a means and purpose is the ultimate end. Failure should never become an end of the road for life goes on and there is plenty of others opportunities that we can turn failures into success. Having said that, it is likely that there are some defining characteristics that differentiate why some are likely to succeed while others fail. If you can decode early signs in your habits, you can reinforce and capitalize on effective habits or take corrective measures and avoid the inevitable. 

Growth of Entrepreneurship in India

One of the biggest hurdle for any one who want to be an entrepreneur in India is not limited to mobilizing financial resources but  to convince their immediate family member.  "Resistance from families to risk is one of the three biggest inhibitors to entrepreneurship in India, the other two being capital and awareness," says Sanjay Anandaram, a venture partner with Seedfund. However, the story of lesser privileged needs change; "Children who have nothing to fall back upon often prefer secure jobs," says Isec's Usha Devi. Here is an info-graph of the promising sings of entrepreneurship in India. 

Leadership Resonance

People understand the 'what' of leadership; the strategy, implementation, management, and control. What only a few understand is the 'how' of leadership. How of leadership involves moving people through guiding emotions and passion. Resonant leaders are adept at painting compelling pictures that inspire their subordinates.

Ensuring Accountability

We normally ask “who is responsible for this?” only when things go wrong; when things go wrong most of us are quick to point fingers at others or blame others or pass on the buck – rather than take responsibility for action or inaction. Everyone is aware of their responsibilities and what they are accountable for; it becomes even more obvious when people engage in excuses, justifications, rationalizations and apologies. It is evident that while some are accountable by nature, others have to be made accountable. Therefore, it is important for leaders to focus on fostering a culture of accountability in their organization.

Use Opportunities as Steppingstones

Opportunities can be steppingstones, but they neither appear to you in a manner that is easy to recognize nor reaches out to you at a time when it is most convenient. To recognize and take hold of an opportunity you must do both looking inwardly as well as looking outwardly. Opportunities are steppingstones when you spot them early; seize them before it reaches out of your hand. Opportunities are an advantage when you are fully prepared and ready to make the most of it whenever it comes your way. Here are some tips to recognize and seize opportunities and use them as steppingstones to reach the next level.