Leadership Lessons – the content in this category includes, leadership competencies, leadership behaviours, ethics, there are several true stories that describe Leadership Lessons in context all will hopefully add value to your training activity.
Leadership Lessons from The Wizard of Oz is our most popular post of all time
A big job had presented itself at training towers. The bigwigs had attended a continuous improvement seminar where they had been publicly embarrassed by the ring masters for their stinking thinking. The big wigs arrived at training towers and the gnomes were summoned. During a verbal [...]
The article Leadership Lessons from the Wizard of Oz describes the journey of accidental heroes. A scarecrow, a tin Man, a lion, characters who underestimate themselves and who already possessed the very qualities they aspire to. The scarecrow demonstrates an ability to develop goals, foresight in anticipating the consequences [...]
All organisations recognise that business ethics, values and standards play an important role in supporting sustainable business partnerships and customer interactions
Many organisations begin a change process and find that their efforts are not having the desired impact. Are you finding your efforts result in No Change? Banging your head against a brick wall trying to figure out why your change initiatives are not producing results? It's not [...]
We all know the story of the experiment in which a number of fleas were placed in a jar. The initial reaction of the fleas was to jump, and jump very high out of the jar, but then, the lid of the jar was replaced and after several attempts to [...]
Why do managers want to or fail to see some things and not others? What are the filters that screen, cloud, and distort their reality leading to dodgy decisions? Perception is our manufacturing process it leads to an output or product. In this case the product is a decision, [...]
Leaders, are you encouraging followersheep? Many years ago we were approached by a large public sector department to deliver a leadership development programme. Prior to receiving the materials I had formed expectations about the content of the course; however, when I received the material the content was so fundamentally different [...]
Most leaders conform to corporate standards of behaviour and behave ethically when things are going their way, however, personal value systems are installed at an early age and they become our default operating system, many leaders therefore may default to unethical behaviours when their needs or goals are compromised
