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Is Management Leadership Dead?
Are you providing leadership to your team? Do you have a good understanding of who does what in your team and how long it takes? Are you inspiring your workers to be more successful? Are you spending all of your time managing paperwork or clients, leaving no time for managing your employees? Are your employees happy and productive? If you aren’t sure about the answers to these questions, why aren’t you? Finally, how could you improve your leadership?
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 25 April 2018How to Be a Better Team Leader
Being a team leader is a tough job with a lot of responsibility. It can also be massively satisfying when you see the progress made by your team over time. You can learn a lot about yourself in this role too. If you want to be proud of truly contributing to the success of a team and the personal growth of the staff then the following are a few of the best ways of going about it.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 9 January 2018What are the Most Important Skills for a Leader?
Many people go through their entire careers dreaming of becoming a leader, but without fully understanding what the role is all about. This is the type of job that is ideal for some people but not for everyone. Therefore, before setting your heart on being a leader it is worth looking at the most important skills needed and seeing whether you possess them.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 18 December 2017This is the Latest Trend in Business Practices
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve noticed that fitness watches are everywhere. You might even be wearing one right now – but even if you aren’t, you’ve seen them around. For health-minded people, these ingenious devices provide all kinds of useful feedback: number of steps taken, number of calories burned, number of hours slept, etc.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 26 September 2017Getting the CFO On Board with Team Collaboration
Cloud computing and related technologies are becoming increasingly attractive to smaller businesses, and it’s not hard to see why. This trend is simply following in the footsteps of all of the technological advances of the last few decades – designed to, among other things, help smaller businesses compete more effectively with large corporations. And it works.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 19 April 20175 of the Worst Mistakes Made by SMB Owners
SMBs have their own kinds of challenges and can prove highly sensitive to fluctuating market conditions. They can also be dynamic, fast-growing and innovative. Whatever the circumstances, they require great leadership – yet many business owners come close to sinking their own ship.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 24 October 2016Leadership – Why You Should Stop Micromanaging Your SMB
A teacher who only accepts their own way to solve a task. A supermarket manager who has to double-check every item that you’ve stacked. A leader who stifles the creative freedom of his or her staff. Whether in the classroom or at work, leaders who micromanage do more to hinder development than drive desired outcomes.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 12 September 2016Leader v Manager – Which one are you (or aspiring to be)?
Despite what you may think, leaders and managers are different beasts; they have distinctively different jobs, but equally important roles to play. The former makes sure the company succeeds by inspiring and well, leading, staff. The latter makes sure that the performance is kept at acceptable levels.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 5 July 2016Leadership Skills to Encourage Collaboration And Inspire Loyalty, Part 2
Qualities alone do not realise goals. There are also practices that should be enacted as often as possible in order to make the most of your leadership skills.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 7 March 2016Leadership Skills to Encourage Collaboration And Inspire Loyalty, Part 1
"What's dangerous is not to evolve.” – Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon. Do you rule by fear like Jeff Bezos, who managed to transport his whole company into a Lord of the Flies-esque environment where it’s kill or be killed (crying heard at desks, employees encouraged to "tear apart one another's ideas")?
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 29 February 2016Blog
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