Archives by Tag 'Leadership'

An Overview of Organizational Leadership and Management – Walonick

By rapidbi - Last updated: Friday, March 19, 2010

The quest for power has dominated human history. One of the earliest works on the management of power was written by Niccolo Machiavelli, a political advisor to nobles during the early sixteenth century. In The Prince, Machiavelli laid out a set of principles that would help the nobles maintain their leadership and control over the populous.

Deep-Dive brainstorming technique – IDEO

By rapidbi - Last updated: Sunday, January 17, 2010

Deep-Dive brainstorming technique is often used to rapidly immerse a group or team for problem solving or idea creation. Used for brainstorming product or process development

What is Performance Management? CIPD Research

By rapidbi - Last updated: Thursday, December 17, 2009

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 [...]

New Management/ Leadership & Coaching Models

By rapidbi - Last updated: Monday, December 14, 2009

soon available a second set of 100+ models. Downloadable packs of management, leadership, change and marketing models and theories for you to use in your coaching, training, studies or management. From less than £10

Fad surfing – the worst form of change management

By rapidbi - Last updated: Saturday, December 5, 2009

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

By rapidbi - Last updated: Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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

By rapidbi - Last updated: Sunday, November 8, 2009

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

By rapidbi - Last updated: Sunday, November 1, 2009

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

By rapidbi - Last updated: Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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

By rapidbi - Last updated: Monday, September 14, 2009

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