Advice on how to be an effective leader and best manage your team.
|
Most definitions of workplace honesty speak about “refraining from lying”, “upholding high ethical standards” and “high levels of integrity”. What this means in practice is difficult to define. Every situation is different. A person who is completely honest about everything may not be an effective worker or a good team player.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Recently we have read about some high profile ethical failures and this causes me to ask – Do our leaders in industry and government understand the difference between right and wrong? The destruction of the lives of others due to unethical practices in the financial sector cannot be overlooked or treated casually.
|
|
Read more...
|
We read and hear a great deal about “codes of conduct” - “codes of Ethics” – “Codes of Good Practice” and so on. Do we understand what they are and what they mean? Codes of conduct can be defined as - “A set of rules outlining the responsibilities of or proper practices for an individual or organisation”. Other related topics include concepts related to codes of ethics which deal with professional and business conduct.
|
|
Read more...
|
Current reality is the situation a company finds themselves in: where are they now and what are the challenges they face at this moment?
|
|
Read more...
|
Robert L. Joss remembers the not-exactly-official organizational chart he received when he was hired as Business School Dean 10 years ago. The box representing the Dean’s job was at the bottom, not the top, connected with boxes representing alumni, faculty, students, staff and the advisory council. Beneath the diagram was a four-word note: “And everything runs downhill.”
|
|
Read more...
|
Dealing with tough economic times and managing through a recession, as we are currently experiencing, requires a drastic change of attitude. It is not a time for a "heads in the sand" approach. It is not a time to carry on as we always have or to do things as we have always done them.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
 What distinguishes a good leader from a mediocre one? That is the question. Is it their leadership ability, their leadership style, their character, integrity, knowledge, ability to make profit, clarity of vision and so forth? Whatever answer you come up with, the important thing to realise is that great leaders can be developed. They are not necessarily “born leaders” as many would have us believe.
|
|
Read more...
|
 Leaders are great people. Leaders can have a great influence over the lives of the people they lead. Great leaders challenge their people to attempt great things they would never try on their own. They inspire their people to go places they never would go on their own. They inspire their people to think thoughts they never knew they had. W. H. Cowley said, “A leader is anyone who has two characteristics: First he is going someplace: second, he is able to persuade other people to go with him”.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
A leader becomes great because he or she leads from the heart.
They are themselves and are not trying to be what others want them to be. 
|
|
Read more...
|
In today’s business climate of tight budgets and falling staffing levels, the key to keeping employees informed, motivated, engaged and loyal to their employer is effective internal and corporate communication.
|
|
Read more...
|
When a doctor qualifies, he or she takes an oath called the “Hippocratic Oath”. The oath taken is a promise to practice good medicine to the best of his or her ability. This is a personal promise made to self and is intended to assist the new doctor in carrying out the tasks of his/her profession in a professional manner. This is an oath to practice medicine in an ethical manner and at all times behave professionally.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Page 3 of 4 |
