Article #724
These ten tips will help you to make better presentations, speeches, and televised interviews.

Article #722
Leadership is an interactive conversation that invites people to explore personal responsibility, passion, accountability and commitment. Here are 6 principles to guide these capacity-building conversations.

Post #688
Friday Video: TED Talk – In his typically candid style, Richard St. John reminds us that success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey. He uses the story of his business’ rise and fall to illustrate a valuable lesson — when we stop trying, we fail.

Post #641
Friday Video: TED Talk – Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 — because she was going to talk, for the first time, about the lonely experience of being a woman in the top tiers of business.

Article #640
We’re in the middle of a series on “attitude,” particularly as it relates to the folks we manage. One of the toughest assignments we can ever get as a manager is an employee with an “attitude problem.” What a wonderful smorgasbord of things that could mean.

Post #636
Friday Video: TED Talk (Part 1) – Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.

Article #622
There is an essential internal dimension to empowerment which can be defined as “a state in which a person operates by itself and with enthusiasm”. Empowerment of your employees makes you more powerful, simply because empowerment is not a zero sum game. The article ventures into the sensitive area and explains the need to understand the thin line difference between “Result Orientation” and “Bullying” your subordinates.

Article #618
It can be easy as a manager to label people as bad or good performers. This performance labeling tends to be a convenient way to quickly categorize people.

Article #570
Authentic leadership goes beyond what we tend to think of as the skills and knowledge required for leadership. Rather, authentic leaders know how to lead from a place beyond the intellectual mind. They operate from the heart and are always in line with their purpose in life. They are simply and genuinely themselves in all situations. Leaders who embody authentic leadership are able to move smoothly and effortlessly between two worlds. These leaders have six characteristics.