Articles About Leadership Skills and How to Manage People

Leadership Skills for Managers

Start with Strategy & Objectives

When Managing People, What is the Goal?

Before deciding what you are going to do or how you are going to do it, you need to decide where you want to go, right? VIDEO

Exactly What Is Leadership?

Surely "leadership" can be defined many ways, but what is the correct definition for you to be effective. This is important, as it shapes all that you do. VIDEO

How To Create Engaged Employees

Employee Engagement is a largely misunderstood concept and one that management often undertakes through "programs" initiated in the workplace when what is really needed is the right environment. Learn how in the related video. VIDEO

Leadership Skills & Tools

The Five Star Employee NEW

How should you try to develop each employee? What is the image of a Superstar Employee? VIDEO

Your Most Important Leadership Skill: Listening

Listening is one of the most important leadership skills to develop, if not the most, when managing people. Find out why in this video and then get out there and do it! VIDEO

Listening Is the Key to Superior Leadership

Find out why listening is the mechanism by which every manager can greatly improve their leadership power.

How to Listen

If listening is your most important leadership skill, how do you do it effectively? Find out in this video. VIDEO

Don’t Shoot the Messenger

An excerpt from my book, Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed, teaching you how to not kill the bearer of bad news.

A Story About the Power of Listening

This story relates an actual experience I had which demonstrates how to listen to employees correctly and how effective it is.

Why Employees Are Not Highly Motivated and Committed

Discover the reasons why most employees are demotivated and get an
understanding of what can be done to turn around such a situation.

How Managers Create Low Morale In Their Employees

Even though no manager wants to create low morale, most do exactly that because of how they manage people.

Leadership is a Science, Not an Art

As it turns out, managing people and leadership are the same science with theory and supporting steps to creating the desired outcome. During tough economic environments, isn't that exactly what you need - a set of instructions on how to get the most out of your workforce and how to make them a high performing, self-reliant entity?

Even if you know what good leadership is, do you have all of the tools to really get yourself, your team and your organization there? In his book, Ben breaks down the science and tells you exactly how to develop and hone your leadership skills, so you can unleash the inherent talents of your employees. He provides you with what other books have not, years of proven tactics, and the cold hard facts of the role of managers and executives.

And, if its a science, doesn't that mean anyone with the desire to do so can learn to be a true leader of people? Yes, that is exactly what it means.

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