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Leadership and management have historically been differentiated by reference to style differences. This orientation implies that they serve the same purpose - to get things done through people. But a very different way of defining leadership and management emerges when we give them completely separate functions, one to promote new directions and one to execute them as efficiently as possible.

Personality is strongly aligned to success in the workplace and as such should always be assessed during the selection process. Assessing a candidate's personality will tells us who that person is and not just what they know...

7 Ways to Stop Hiring Turkeys!

Hiring turkeys is easy when you rely on gut feel and emotional judgement. Using a structured, scientific approach will give you better odds of hiring the right person first time.

How To Construct A Job Description

It’s a legal requirement to have a job description for every position in your organisation (NZ/Aust readers). This must be provided to the employee as part of their employment contract. Apart from this legal requirement, it makes good business sense for all parties to have a clear, written picture, of what is required to be successful within the role and the organisation in total.

Leadership Traits

What are the skills that differentiate effective leaders from those who are less effective? Successful leaders are strategic, quick to identify opportunities, develop infrastructure, understand financial drivers, develop networks, build reputation, and develop others.

10 Management Lessons

A business amounts to little without the people behind it. The two most important things I look for when hiring are initiative and work ethic. I cannot overestimate the importance to the eventual success of your business of bringing on good people. But once you have hired these good people, how do you manage them?

Assessment for Leadership Development

Assessment centers are great for leadership development because they provide an accurate assessment while enabling participants to learn while going through them.Other assessment techniques force participants to wait for feedback to learn anything about themselves.

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Leadersdirect Thinking

Leadersdirect Thinking is an article bank for new thinking about leadership. It was launched on January, 24th, 2008 to provide a free resource for managers at all levels to help them continuously develop their management and leadership skills. Leadersdirect is unique for having very specific article categories. Many other online collections of articles have only a few very general management categories, hence making insufficient differentiation between the vast number of sub-topics within the field of management.

By drilling down to more specialized management topics, Leadersdirect Thinking encourages authors to focus their articles on very specific topics for greater depth of insight, thereby discouraging superficial surveys. In addition, more specific categories enable visitors to find more articles faster on topics of interest to them without having to wade through a lot of articles of no relevance.

Leadersdirect Thinking is sponsored by the Self Renewal Group, an executive assessment and coaching firm. See www.leadersdirect.com for more information.



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