Browse Author: Kerrie

Leadership and management productivity teleseminar

Our first free teleseminar for clients and subscribers of Leading Well was so successful we have scheduled another one, this time with Australia’s Number 1 Productivity Coach, Lorraine Pirihi, on ‘How to Transform Yourself into a Productivity Powerhouse’.

It will be held on Wednesday July 19 or Thursday July 20 (depending on which part of the world you are calling from). Lorraine has lots of practical, useful tips on how to get more things done in your day and I’m sure you won’t want to miss it.

See here for times, dates and details

Less stress for leaders and managers

Lorraine Pirihi, guest on my next teleseminar and Australia’s number 1 productivity coach, is presenting a live seminar on ‘How to Have Less Mess, Less Stress and More Success’ on July 15th in Melbourne.

AND I’ve been able to arrange an extra special offer for all my clients! If you book now – by Tuesday 11th July at the very latest – you’ll also receive a complimentary recording of the live event valued at $197 for FREE, along with all the other bonuses she includes. Great value. (Take along a friend and you will save even more!)

Download all the details here.

Manager’s Mission Audioseminar

Our teleseminar on ‘The Manager’s Mission: How to take all the complexity out of management and replace it with simple success’ was a great event with participants registered from across the globe, who raved about all the ideas, information and tips that were packed into such a short seminar. I hope you didn’t miss it.

If you did miss it, or if you just want to listen to it again to catch any details you might have missed, we will soon have the recording available for instant download.

Click here for details.

A leadership style that works

Some managers just don’t seem to be able to resist getting involved or giving advice, even when it’s not really needed or wanted. It’s a counterproductive leadership style that screams lack of trust.

One of the most empowering things you can do as a leader is provide your people with the space to manage their own priorities.

After you have clarified priorities and responsibilities with your people, your next priority should be to ensure they have all the skills and resources necessary, and then leave them to it.

Demonstrate trust and you’ll achieve a leadership style that works much more effectively.

For more great ideas on how to develop your leadership skills join us in the Leadership Coaching Club which starts in mid September.

School and Industry Leadership

A visitor to my website, recently asked me a good question and I thought you might like to hear my answer. Ange asked:

“I teach leadership to secondary students. Can I take that knowledge to industry?”

I guess the answer is somewhere in between Yes, No and It Depends!

The fundamental principles of leadership that you are presumably teaching your secondary students will still apply and translate well into industry (- so Yes).

However, in my experience (I was a chemistry teacher many years ago) adults are very sensitive to anything that seems to be school related so you will need to develop quite different examples and explanations to the ones that you use with your students and that may be difficult for you if you do not have industry, business or office experience (- so No).

Thirdly, industry and business leaders who want to learn about leadership will usually seek out people who have actually held leadership positions themselves, rather than those who just know about leadership but have never really applied what they know. So It Depends – on whether you have actually lead a business, group or team, and can demonstrate the success you have had as a leader.

A really good first step is to volunteer to join the board or management group of a charity or community group and apply what you know there. That will enable you to recognize some of the gaps that exist between knowing about something and being able to put it into effect. And the end of the day that’s what people really want to know about – How to do it! And that’s one of the big things we look at in the Leadership Coaching Club which starts in mid September.

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If you have a leadership question you want to ask, you can Ask it here.