Kayte Connelly, owner of Best Principled Solutions, shares tips and insights on the qualities of effective leadership.

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Developing Your Leadership Muscles

Every day, we have choices. We choose to behave one way or another; to deliver a verdict on how an employee should or should not be accomplishing their work; or when to take a huge risk.

We choose words; we choose actions. Sometimes, we choose inaction.

How do you learn which words? Where do you learn what actions to take at what times with whom?

Lifelong Learners

Leading Difficult People

One of the most problematic parts of running a business, a division or a department, is human talent management. We may be really excellent at making widgets, designing new parts or providing services; but not so much as managing personalities.

Slashing and Burning Your Organization

You can often predict the culture of an organization by how you are received at the front desk. How do people greet you? How do they treat you while you are waiting in the lobby for your appointment? How does the lobby look? Are you made to feel welcome or treated like you are an intruder?

As a coach/consultant, you look at all evidence you can discover or uncover on the web about a prospective client. Do they have a value statement? What does their human resource department have available on their page about how people are embraced?

Platform for Growth for Women Business Owners

One need not look very far to assemble key information about women-owned business. There are several nationwide organizations that augment the information determined through Official Census.

Checking In with Community Leadership

“Board Paradox” was the name of the third report for the 2011 Daring to Lead Study (undertaken by Rick Myers, CompassPoint Services and the Meyers Foundation, San Francisco, 2011) with relation to the ongoing dilemma between top leadership in nonprofit organizations and their board of directors.

Nonprofits have been growing at a breakneck speed. The number of all nonprofits in the United States grew 25 percent while the number of for-profit businesses rose by half of 1 percent, according to the most recent figures compiled by the Urban Institute.

Leadership is the Number One Concern of Global Executives: A Summary of the 2014 Deloitte Global Human Resource Trends Survey

Last fall, Deloitte continued its research into human capital trends and summarized the results titled: Engaging the 21^st century workforce. They undertook on of the largest global surveys of its kind by surveying 2532 business and HR leaders in 94 countries.

Jerk Alert: Are Productivity Killers Amongst Your Midst?

In preparation for the 2014 Leadercast, licensees across the country were provided with some compelling information.

Maeghan Ouimet, Inc. Magazine warns that, “Terrible bosses have a trickle down effect. They bring down the quality of your employees’ work and your bottom line with it.”

Do You Lie?

This single question has been included in the selection of my teams since 1985. At the time, as Executive Director of the Adahi Council of Camp Fire Boys and Girls, a board member who worked in human resources at CarTech advised me to use it each and every time I interviewed staff members, volunteers or potential board members.

Principles for Leadership

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

Does this sound like your workplace? Does your boss believe they are a leader because they are IN CHARGE? Do you wake up every morning dreading going into work?