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February 8th, 2010 |
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes
It’s time again for the Leadership Development Blog Carnival. This month’s blog carnival was put together by Mark Bennett and is being hosted at TalentedApps. This month’s offering includes submissions from 35 of the best leadership writers that I know and I’m honored to be included along with this group.
The monthly Leadership Development Blog Carnival is a great source of information related to developing leaders. Some of the information that we find helps with our own development as leaders and some helps with our development of others.
Since it’s hard to try to follow this many blogs at one time, the carnival can be used as a way to keep up with some of the most important leadership development writing over the last several weeks. All presented in a single place that previews each article instead of just including a list.
Please take some time to check out this month’s Leadership Development Blog Carnival and all of the posts that are included. It will be time well spent.
Posted on February 5th, 2010 |
Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes
In a previous article about why leaders can’t do it all, I suggested that we need to be able to delegate work effectively if we hope to be able to get all the work done that we need to in order to meet our goals and vision. I also suggested what delegation should not be. Now I want to take a look at what effective delegation should be.
Those who have a position of leadership or authority need to be spending the bulk of their time leading and managing. In most cases, this means there isn’t [...]
Posted on February 2nd, 2010 |
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
One of the main purposes of leadership is to get things done. We have a vision or goals that we want to meet so we motivate and inspire others who follow us and help us get where it is we’re trying to go. In most cases, the complexity of the leader’s job is such that there isn’t enough time in the day to do everything ourselves. This is why effective leaders need to be able to become effective delegators.
Delegation Isn’t Always Easy
Unfortunately, delegation seems to be one of the hardest skills for leaders to learn. [...]
Posted on January 29th, 2010 |
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes
My previous two articles included and introduction to Leader-Member Exchange theory, or LMX, as well as the challenge we face as leaders because of this theory. Once again I owe the topic for this article to David Burkus who, in a comment he posted to the last article, asked a great question: Do we always want to move people out of our in-group, or are there valid and preferable reasons to relegating someone to our out-group?
As I’ve thought about this question, I can certainly think of reasons why I’ve put folks in my out-group, but [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2010 |
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
In my last article, I introduced the Leader-Member Exchange theory or LMX as it’s known. LMX suggests that every leader has a unique, individual relationship with each follower and that each of these relationships is different in terms of the quality of the interactions. LMX also goes on to suggest that as leaders we have a definite “in-group” and “out-group” and the group individual followers end up in will determine the quality of the interaction and relationship we have with each follower.
So, if the Leader-Member Exchange theory is accurate and we accept that we have [...]
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