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Category: Management

Effective Leaders are Effective Listeners

Posted on September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 by Ken Vaughan
Effective leadership is built on relationships and listening — really listening — is an important ingredient for building and maintaining those relationships. While most of us believe we are compe... Read More

Leaders Who Coach Draw Out the Best in their Team Members

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Ken Vaughan
Leadership can be defined as influence. The most effective leaders build a relationship of trust and respect with those around them in which they are able to draw people in and influence them to take ... Read More

Effective Leaders Know Their Team Members

Posted on July 31, 2018August 1, 2018 by Ken Vaughan
Building relationships is a skill possessed by effective leaders and it should be utilized first and foremost with the leader’s own team members. Trust and respect are not easily given away by most ... Read More

Effective Leaders Provide Effective Feedback

Posted on June 28, 2018July 31, 2018 by Ken Vaughan
In a previous article we discussed how the ability to seek and receive feedback is an essential trait of a successful leader. We are sometimes not able to see how certain behaviors of ours affect othe... Read More

Good Leaders Seek Honest Feedback and Improve By It

Posted on May 29, 2018August 1, 2018 by Ken Vaughan
There are a number of commonalities among the best leaders. Effective leaders are highly self-aware; they know themselves well and understand their own strengths and weaknesses. Even a step further, t... Read More

Be a Better Leader by Avoiding the Arrogance Trap

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Ken Vaughan
There are many traits required to be an effective leader. One of the most important is humility, yet this character trait is often misunderstood. Humility is sometimes confused with timidity, quietnes... Read More

Getting Real with Leadership: Why Authenticity Matters

Posted on March 28, 2018July 6, 2018 by Ken Vaughan
Leadership is influence, which is built through relationships of trust and respect. One of the necessary ingredients of these relationships of trust and respect is authenticity. People will follow aut... Read More

Effective Leaders Must Be Both Results and People Oriented

Posted on March 1, 2018July 6, 2018 by Ken Vaughan
Are the best leaders results-oriented or relationship-oriented? Do they focus on people or performance? The answer is yes. Effective leaders must focus on both results and people and balance the two. ... Read More

Successful Leaders Strive to Maintain an Open Mind

Posted on January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 by Ken Vaughan
While managing people can be described as assigning and monitoring tasks, leading people is based on a relationship of influence that is built upon trust and respect for the leader. Demonstration by t... Read More

Empathy, A Key Trait of Leadership

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Ken Vaughan
Effective leadership goes well beyond assigning duties and reviewing performance. It requires a relationship between the leader and those who follow him or her that will draw people to accept or even ... Read More

Resilience, A Key Trait of Leadership

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Ken Vaughan
Resilience is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”. In terms of leadership, resiliency could be thought of as the abil... Read More

Positivity, A Key Trait of Leadership

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Ken Vaughan
General Bernard Montgomery defined leadership as “the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” An important character trait requir... Read More
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