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Wondering about how to invest in commodities, shares or property?

admin — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:27:54 +0000

Financial Expert has created several guides which cover investing in a range of wide areas. Links to various profiles are below, referencing the articles:

So if you believe that leaders should have a minimum base level of understanding concerning the financial world, including how to invest in shares, property or commodities – go beyond leadership styles and explore this exciting area of finance. This in turn will help to broaden your understanding of global financial issues. I firmly believe that getting involved in investing is a key method of broadening business awareness, so it will help students or graduates looking for a new job in the financial arena.

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Reader Question: How to Suggest A Change in Leader of a Team

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:54:11 +0000

I’ve received a question in from a reader of my blog, on how one can put out the idea of a change of leader in a team. This topic is essentially all about change management, a field in which experts such as Stephen Warrilow and others command quite alot of authority.

In short, I think it probably depends alot on your leadership style, and also, how much you really want a change of leader. If you’re prepared to put your heart and soul into leading a delicate campaign for your existing leaders removal – I believe you can make it happen, however this may come with certain costs, such as damaged egos, damaged relationships, and a fragmented team.

Simply put, if you’re desperate for a change of leadership, you want to be gauging the opinions of other members of your team. If they appear to be in support, then talking more about the subject will clarify this in their mind, and will make them more likely to support you in any political-style bid to appoint a new leader. You then probably want to think about who is above your leader. Who has the authority to actually change the leader of the team? Whoever has that power is the most important person who needs to agree with you. Your team could actually disagree with the change, but as long as your bosses boss agrees – it could still happen.

Step 1: Gauge opinion of collegues.

Step 2: Gauge opinion of the boss of your boss.

Step 3. Evaluate. Would pursuing this objective be a) possible, and b) good for the company.

Step 4: Stir up support from your colleagues for such a change, and approach the head boss and voice your concerns.

Step5: After you’ve made your business case, wait to see what happens!

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Cause Your Team To Ponder With A Leadership Styles Questionnaire!

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:10:05 +0000

A leadership styles questionnaire will help your team think about their personal traits as a potential leader, and will help guide their personal reflection. Importantly, it will aid in aligning their beliefs about themselves, with their actual actions. What can add an extra twist to the task, is to ask the team members to fill out the questionnaire about one another. This will help expose any one-way thinking that may be going on inside some employees minds.

The quiz I’d recommend you use is this leadership style questionnaire. I’d recommend this one as apposed to the others you can also download for free, because its relatively quick to do – with only 20 questions, while at the same time, it still arrives at an accurate and reflective conclusion. The quiz needs to be succinct if you intend to pass it round and ask others to repeat and complete it about each other, which would of course get extremely tedious if the questionnaire was 50 pages long and required anything more than ticking boxes.

What I like about the leadership style questionnaire I link to above, is that the way the questions are phrased doesn’t lead everyone into choosing the same boxes. Even the phrases that support some of the ‘modern’ leadership styles are worded in a way such that only the real, and most passionate leaders of that breed would award themselves full points on that criteria. A job well done by the author at Leadership-Expert.co.uk

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Ultimate Leadership Guide – Our Review

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:44:33 +0000

The Ultimate Leadership Guide is a new concept introduced by Simon Teague – a UK manager. It offers a completely a new approach towards personal development. If you take a few minutes to think about how we’ve been going about achieving personal growth in the leadership arena in the past 10-20 years, you’ll realise how broken it is.

The leadership world is currently dominated by so-called ‘Gurus’ that simply try to re-hash material and claim that this fad will save the business world and pull them out of a recession. Simon Teague realises that indeed the best ideas HAVE already been researched over the past 100 years. Why re-invent the wheel? What he has done in stead is create a product that brings together the minds of the true great thought leaders in the past century, into one easy-to-digest format. Its an interesting idea that may take a while to get used to – but using the ultimate leadership guide actually means that you’ll be able to absorb the key teachings from a 350 page leadership book in just 3-5 minutes.

A standard 400 page leadership book, will only contain 2-3 pages of pure principles and key messages. If you’ve read any leadership book, you’ll realise that the vast major of the material is merely ‘padding’, comprised of examples and repetition.

So wouldn’t it be cool to be able to cut out all this excess, time-wasting waffle? This is what the Ultimate Leadership Guide does.

The Ultimate Leadership Guide allows you to effectively read one leadership book in just 3 minutes. Which allows you to effectively gain the knowledge of one book everyday. It also allows for effective ‘re-visiting’ which is really going to cause your gains to take off in a big big way!

So check out the Ultimate Leadership Guide today. I hope you’ve enjoyed this review.

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Some Cool Leadership Resources

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:10:14 +0000

Hey Folks, just thought I’d point to some leadership resources I use:

Leadership Resources #1
Leadership Resources #2
Leadership Resources #3
Leadership Resources #4

These point mainly at my user profiles on those sites – It’s the sites themselves that are interesting.

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Great New Leadership Website

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:54:46 +0000

Hey folks, I just want to point people looking for a good basic introduction to the world of leadership to a website about leadership recently started by my friend.

If you’re looking for a brief introduction to leadership, and leadership management and a little knowledge about coaching etc, it’s the perfect place for your leadership knowledge hunt to begin!

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Take Advantage of Competitive Collegues

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:21:08 +0000

If you’ve ever wanted to use your leadership to fill your team with energy, enthuasiam and motivation. Look no further than these Team Leadership articles. In the next week I’ll be writing about a few key strategies to enthuse your teams. Today’s article is on how to take advantage of the competitive nature of your team to drive them into wanting to work harder and longer!

2. Taking advantage of competitive collegues. While competitiveness is often seen as a negative characteristic, it is also a great intrinsic motivator for your team. At our heart, as humans, we are very competitive. In life we naturally we have to compete for everything, including jobs, partners and even restaurant tables! We all have a competitive spirit to some extent, and this idea forms the core part of the 2nd leadership technique. Before I divulge the details, it is important for you to understand that from an organisations point of view, there are two types of competitiveness. There’s is the positive and the detrimental types.

‘Good’ Competitiveness

This is the driving force behind the Team Leadership technique. This is the competitiveness with external forces or the self. Other companies, ‘society’ and yourself are the competitors and in striving to beat them, you will positively affect your life or company. This is because the benefits of succeeding spread to those around you, creating an atosphere of success. This is in contrast with:

‘Detrimental’ Competitiveness

Detrimental competitiveness occurs between peers, collegues or friends and family. Where often the benefit of beating the opposition is balanced with serious negative consequences. A company that promotes heavy detrimental competitiveness between collegues will see a great increase in inefficiences as collegue begin to withhold infomation from one another, or sabotage each others efforts. In this kind of environment, success is only a selfish gain, and the overall effect is negative.

It is with this in mind that I describe how to use this technique. You simply have to set the right challenge!

I remember a conversation with my old sixth-form business studies teacher like it was yesterday. The exam results from the first round of examinations had just been released and I was exstatic to learn that I’d achieved full marks on my business exam. My teacher called me to his desk and said to me quietly;

“These results are outstanding, great work! It reminds me of Lucy. About 3 years ago she was a girl in my class who also did brilliantly in her exams. She wasn’t that nice though – a bit arrogant and up herself y’know, but she ended up getting full marks in her whole qualification. Lucy is the only person to have ever to have done that here, but I really think that you could do it too, while not annoying everyone at the same time! It’d be great to see a well-rounded person like you manage to do it.”

What a perfect thing to say! My teacher had set me a challenge to try and complete. I definately wasn’t going to become complacement and start underacheiving in class now! I was going to try and beat that girl. I badly wanted to get full marks without being ‘arrogant’ about it. And so for my 2 year course I put in extra effort in that class, and came out with a grade to be very proud of. Who was I to prove him wrong in believing that I could do this? He gave me a very good reputation that I didn’t want to let down, and he also gave me a chance to prove I was better than this unpleasant Lucy. It was a perfect combination of challenges that had one great result = dedication on my part.

So if you want to unleash the competitive drive within your friends or collegues:

* Give your employees a good reputation to uphold
* Compare your employees to their external rivals
* Set your worker a tough goal to meet, but enough praise to show that you believe they can reach it

Remember that if you give a team mate a ‘rival’ to beat, they must be outside of the organisation, or so remote from the individual that there will be no negativity between them. If you successfully set your own friends or team mates challenges such as these, you will fill them with a sense of focus and clear direction that would only come them accepting a competitive challenge and striving to achieve success in it.

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How to Enthuse and Inspire your Team

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:18:41 +0000

If you’ve ever wanted to use your leadership to fill your team with energy, enthuasiam and motivation. Look no further than these Team Leadership articles. In the next week I’ll be writing about a few key strategies to enthuse your teams. Today’s article is on the importance of acting upon the guidance you give to your team. After all, nobody likes to follow a hypocrite.

Display your own enthusiasm and inspiration. You cannot expect to build enthusiasm and inspiration within the team you manage if you do not display these characteristics yourself. People hate obeying hypocrites, so you won’t make any allies by coaching your team to behave one way, and then ignoring those rules yourself. Lets be honest; if you really find that you’re so uninspired by the current task that that you cannot enthuse yourself, then how can you expect your subordinates to be driven towards the targets you have set them? Team Leadership aims to improve your leadership skills and techniques as much as possible, but applying those skills in practise must be a well thought out and genuine process. Enthusiasm is strikingly contagious, but if you simply desire to manipulate those beneath you, you’ll spread nothing but resentment among your team. If you’re in the situation where you have to pretend to be enthused; you really need to think about changing your career because quite frankly, no amount of leadership advice will make you happy.

How do I display my Enthusiasm?

By showing your eagerness in your tone of voice.
By dedicating time and energy to the project to ensure its success.
By following up and complimenting collegues when they’ve done a good job.
By generating and implementing new ideas and ways of performing your task.
By being punctual and organised.

Provided you are truely inspired by what you do, and you display this confidently to your team mates, you will find this will infect the culture of your team; spreading through your colleagues at a dizzying rate! This technique will hopefully allow you to focus on strategic and higher level work, and stop worrying about the gritty details of your subordinates. If they’re inspired and enthused- you can trust they’ll do a good job.

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How YOU can harness the power of your team mates dreams

admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:06:41 +0000

If you’ve ever wanted to use your leadership to fill your team with energy, enthuasiam and motivation. Look no further than these Team Leadership articles. In the next week I’ll be writing about a few key strategies to enthuse your teams. Today’s article is on the importance of talking to your teammates dreams. After all, members of your team won’t need chasing up if they believe their actually working torwards their own goals. Here’s how to drive your team into that brilliant state of mind.

Talk to their Dreams. An unfortunate part of the concept of day to day teamwork is that usually teams are assembled to complete tasks that their members don’t truely want to acheive. Perhaps your teammates would rather working for themselves, or even retire early! They probably going to have a grand plan as to how they are going to acheive these long term goals as well. These alternative goals are wrongly viewed as ‘distractions’ by many team leaders across countless companies and institutions.

This truely needn’t be the case!

To put this team leadership technique into practise, you need to talk to each member of your team indivdiually, and either directly or indirectly, show your team mates that their current task will take them one small step closer towards their dreams.

Easier said than done? Well allow me give you an example.

If a team mates dream is to own their own business; don’t let their motivation and focus fall as they come to terms with the gap between what they desire, and what they’re currently doing. Instead, emphasise on how working on their project will eventually help them in the long term. Describe to them how they will pick up countless new ideas skills from the current task, which will prepare themselves for the entrepeneurial life. Show that when they do become an independant businessperson, they will have an crucial edge over their competitors.

If a team mate’s dream is to rise to CEO within their company, then you should mention the transferable skills they’ll gain from this task and be able to put on their CV for their next promotion. Explain that this will give them a fighting chance at being noted by management as a potential leader.

In short; all work gives experience in one form or another. This means that whatever task you are assigned to, you will somehow be able to relate the benefits to your teammates in terms of their desires. Once your team leadership shows them that their current task actually slots neatly into their grand plan, they’ll gladly take care of the rest!

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