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Leadership U.S. Marine Style

No matter what career you choose, at one point or another you may be asked to take on a leadership role. Many people start at the bottom and work their way to the top without the benefit of having taken leadership courses. Some are natural leaders while others have moved up thanks to their past [...]

A Case for Teamwork

Many of us are facing some of the most difficult challenges we have faced in our businesses and organizations; however, there is one thing that can be a strategic advantage that most organizations and groups can rarely effectively employ. That strategic advantage is your ability as a leader and member of a team to come [...]

Professional Humility

THE FIVE ABSTRACTS OF LEADERSHIP (Article 5 of 5 of the series)
There is no doubt that it is important to have confidence in your ability to succeed professionally. I define confidence as the understanding one has of their own capacity to produce results. The trouble comes when this understanding does not reflect reality. At this [...]

Five Abstracts of Leadership: Perseverance – Part 4 of 5

PERSEVERANCE

We all have experienced it. We set goals for ourselves but, for whatever reason, we do not follow through. Imagine if we all had the wherewithal to accomplish everything we set out to do. Imagine how much closer to our overall goals we would be right now. What if we could do exactly that: [...]

The Five Abstracts of Leadership Excellence – Part 3

Honesty
In our first article, integrity was discussed as being an inner accountability to the beliefs and values we hold in our lives. When we start to rationalize the compromising of these values, we in turn act in ways that circumvent our own integrity. The object with integrity is to keep the inner accountability [...]

Five Abstract of Leadership Excellence: Part 2

Character Series II of V
By J.D. Garrison, Managing
Director of Workplace Excellence, LLC
If you were a house, what kind would you be? Sounds like one of those off-based job interview questions that you hope you never get, right? But think about it.Would you be a ranch style, prairie style, bungalow, chateauesque? Whatever the style you [...]

Five Abstract of Leadership Excellence: Part 1

Over the next several weeks our blog will be dedicated to the topic of character. It has been said that your talent can get you to a place where your character can’t keep you. How many times have you seen someone become an almost overnight successes, but equally as fast fizzle out. Many times its [...]

Just How Important Are Personal Qualities for Leaders?

You are the potential leader, dreaming of an executive office and a corporate spending account. Did you know that having attractive personal qualities and values are only part of becoming a successful leader? Executive leadership transcends the winning personality and the professional training of a leader. Many people prepare themselves to lead, but a select [...]

Defining Management Training

Management training is an important process for any business.  If you want to make sure that managers and employers are performing at their best, then solid training is key.  Efficiency and quality are extremely necessary to survive in the market place these days.  Businesses are being tested by the shaky economy, and the level of [...]