#Leadership Qualities
10 traits every leader should have
Most of us are pretty good at recognising an extraordinary leader when we meet one. The millions of ordinary people who make great leaders have a high focus on practicalities, solutions and results.
Raise your daughters to be leaders: 6 tips
What’s it take to raise strong, confident women who will build the Apples, Facebooks, and Amazons of the future? One marketing exec (and mom) weighs in.
10 ways to step up your leadership
No matter who you are, or the type of company you oversee, there are some universal ways you can be better at it.
Using meditation to become a master of sales
What do empathy, compassion and benevolence have to do with salespeople and leaders? Different studies around the world have confirmed that these are critical qualities of highly successful people, teams, companies and communities. Here’s how training can help you hone these important traits.
What great leaders have that good leaders don’t
The difference between good and great leadership can be expressed in a single word: loyalty.
3 things every great leader gets wrong
Think you’re a great leader? Make sure you aren’t guilty of one of these three reality-distorting traits.
To lead others, manage yourself
Any employee who has been working in a company for even a few weeks will form opinions about the competency and daily workplace behaviour of their manager – and this opinion will have a very significant impact on the level of engagement, motivation and commitment of that employee.
The strengths and weaknesses of your leadership style
How to recognise some of the most common leadership styles and improve on them.
6 infallible ways to earn respect
There’s no management tool more important than respect. Here’s how to make sure you’re getting it.
Facebook’s lessons in leadership
Here’s what budding entrepreneurs can learn from Zuckerberg’s path to becoming a successful CEO.
Inside the successful leader’s mindset
Set yourself up for success with four beliefs that help you persevere and tackle tough business challenges.
What makes a good leader?
At the core of a happy and engaged workforce is a great leader. Anyone can be a manager, but can they be an inspirational, affiliative and collaborative leader? MYOB CEO Tim Reed offers these thoughts.
Why do you yell at your employees?
Six ways to keep your employees on track and working productively without getting worked up.
The 5 characteristics of excellent leaders
Your leadership style depends on your character, which makes it vital you develop personal values and beliefs that are beneficial to your business. Here are the 5 characteristics a leader must adopt to go from good to great.
Talk is cheap: Why leaders must act with intention
Few leaders understand the negative impact of hollow words and broken promises. Talk is cheap and failure to walk the talk is even cheaper and often a contributing factor to why leaders and managers fail to deliver business results that they stretched for.
The role of intuition in leadership: How it works
Recent research shows that the leaders of our biggest organisations use intuition on a regular basis and find it very important to their effectiveness – but what is intuition exactly? Here’s a look.
How to become a more empathetic leader
Four tips to help you better understand yourself and others in your business.
Intuition: Why every good leader needs it
Non-rational influences in the public domain have long been ignored – seen as something to be avoided, negated, managed or corrected. But new research is pointing to the value of intuition and gut-feel to those in leadership positions.
Biggest weaknesses of great leaders
The same skills that made you a great entrepreneur and leader could also make you a terrible manager.
10 habits of remarkably charismatic people
Charisma isn’t something you have. It’s something you earn. Here’s how.
Three ways to make your screw-ups count
Everyone fails sometimes – but it takes work and wisdom to be able to learn from your mistakes.
Managers, you need to make friends with authority
The ways we perceive powerful figures in our lives can actually shape our own leadership style. Here are some fresh ways to think about your relationship to authority.
25 signs your ego is out of control
A healthy dose of self-confidence is a very good thing for an entrepreneur… until it’s not.
Are you an overbearing boss?
Find out if you are a bossy boss–and, if so, what you can do about it.