Archive for 'Leadership' Category
CIPD factsheets – an A-to-Z
An A-toZ of HR and management related factors. The CIPD produce a wonderful set of regularly updated and reviewed individual factsheets (CIPD factsheets) on a wide and diverse range of HR and management based topics. Here is your one stop index.
What is Performance Management? CIPD Research
Performance Management – why do we do it?
The term performance management has been with us for some time, developed out of “appraisals”, Performance Management remains one of the consistently used phrases in the human resources and management field. Recently the CIPD has conducted some research into performance management recently and the responses from 507 people [...]
Fad surfing – the worst form of change management
Fad surfers are the management or leadership equivalent of the magpie, they love collecting shiny new things from other people. A management or leadership style where there is a lot of sizzle but little substance. Hard and consistant work is the only leadership panacea.
A to Z of leadership
A to Z of leadership ideas
Over the past few months I have slowly been releasing an A to Z of leadership tips/ ideas/ thoughts. I have been asked a few time for that list to be published in one place. The origional source for the list is below, our role was to find the list, [...]
Top Leadership Traits – Positive and negative
What are the top traits we look for in our leaders?
While looking for some material for a forthcoming leadership development programme I discovered an interesting article and results on top leadership traits. In 2006 in Minneapolis Police Department undertook some research looking at Leadership Traits in their officers. This data was analysed and rated by frequency of [...]
New situational based leadership 3.0 for 2010 and beyond
New situational based leadership 3.0
Until recently the old models around leadership were based on one-2-one relationships, when communication were focused on face-to-face discussion and in the main technology was limited to the telephone. Much of management and leadership was done in ‘real time’ and face to face, however here in the ‘naughties’ times, needs and [...]
Innovation, the first step – dare, change, take a risk
Innovation is about the first step
Innovation is the buzzword of the late naughties, but what does it mean?
“Innovation is the act of introducing something new“
Often we focus on the act of creating, indeed many training and development programmes look to developing creativity in order to create innovative cultures. Is this right?
Innovation can mean two very [...]
Developing entrepreneurial skills into business people
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Becoming an Innovative leader – the eight faces of innovation
Becoming an Innovative Leader
When we take innovation away from the technologists and start to look at innovation as a set of behaviours that can drive change and culture, we start to look at innovation as a leadership model.
Using the Creatrix from the Richard Byrd Co in MN USA, we can identify the eight faces of [...]
Starting change from the bottom – or without support from the top
Starting change from the bottom – or without support from the top
On a change management forum recently I come across this interesting post:
Does anyone have any comments or experience about how it is possible to change the culture within a department without support from the top?
In fact the very top may actually be part, [...]
