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The Missing Links in Leadership

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Being a leader in our profit-driven world is not easy. We are constantly under pressure of performing and also increasing our team’s performance.

The article The Missing Links in Leadership, published by the Australian Institute of Management, reminds us of two characteristics necessary to maintain a healthy environment in a busy workplace. Those are compassion and empathy.

As Kerry Anne Cassidy explains in this article, being compassionate everyday “is about ensuring you have the right intention in approaching a situation or person”. That is making sure you first get a grip of the situation (or the other person’s feelings) rather than making suppositions before handling.

Further, Cassidy defines empathy as recognizing and acknowledging an other person’s feelings – even if you do not agree with them. She gives some great examples on how true empathy works. When a team member comes to you with a problem, there is a huge difference between saying “I understand how you feel” and “You are feeling hurt because…”.

Knowing how to be compassionate as well as understand and practice empathy is an important part of emotional intelligence.

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Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read These 6 Books This Year

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Reading, we know, is one of the best ways to learn and to help us see things from other, new angles. And who could not give better tips than Bill Gates himself? In the article Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read These 6 Books This Year written by Jessica  Stillman and published on Inc.com, books on various topics are recommended. It is a most interesting list, including books not only on business but also on other topics like early-20th century U.S. presidents, immunity, or economic development in Asia. These books will no doubt open up our mind to new approaches and thinking.

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How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Peer Accountability

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As a manager, the goal is to have a team that performs greatly in a conflict-free environment. How is that possible? Joseph Grenny explains how in his article How the Best Managers Create Culture Peer Accountability posted on LinkedIn.

That is by applying the Peer Principle, which basically means concentrating less on vertical performance management and more on peer accountability. Team members are encouraged to handle assessment among themselves, including issues of conflict. By being responsibilized, problem-solving mainly happens directly in the group with minimal involvement of the manager.

The article further describes how to implement such culture. The baseline is of course to be a model yourself – confront your concerns directly with the persons involved rather than complain to others. Further, new expectations, together with useful skills, should be explained and taught to the team using positive, speaking examples.

Investing in the Peer Principle takes time up front” explains Joseph Grenny, “but the return on investment happens fast as you regain lost time and see problems solved both better and faster.”

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Signs of a Weak Manager

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The article Seven Signs Your Boss is a Weak Manager is aimed for employees. But what if you considered it from a manager’s point of view?

With subjects ranging from a lack of self-confidence with a fear of competent co-workers to a refusal of accepting tips to improve work, there are a lot of interesting questions in there. How do you react as manager? What about taking it as a quiz?

The article is written by Liz Ryan and published on Forbes.

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Man in the mirror: two principles for better leadership

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The article Man in the mirror: two principles for better leadership, from the Australian Institute of Management does not handle leadership from an innovative angle but as a reminder of two basic pillars which probably make the difference between a leader and a successful leader.

The first is about the importance of leading and listening to yourself. If you don´t, chances are that no one else does either.

The second is about your behaviour. As the leader you are the example. By acting the way you would like your team to act, they will because they are affected by their leader´s conduct.

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The Halo Effect: The Trap That Makes You Hire the Wrong Person

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A team full of good people is an admirable goal for any leader. But there’s a common trap on the road to a goal like this that has snared many a well-meaning hiring manager.

This article by Ben Baldwin and Donald Cowper not only explains the Halo effect but also comes up with three concrete solutions on how to neutralize it.

The article The Halo Effect: The Trap That Makes You Hire the Wrong Person is published on AllBusiness.com.


Wikipedia says: “The halo effect is a cognitive bias in which an observer’s overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product influences the observer’s feelings and thoughts about that entity’s character or properties.

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