Reconnecting Teams
Ahead of a fast-changing future, leaders need to bring their teams back together – with purpose, energy and through fostering a sense of belonging.
The Learning & Development Institute, founded in 1969, is the professional body representing members concerned with Learning and Talent Development in Ireland.
Barry Posner, co-author of best-selling The Leadership Challenge and Professor of Leadership at Santa Clara University, California, presented a seminar in Dublin last week entitled: The truth about leadership: What exemplary leaders do, as part of the 21st international Vincentian Business Ethics conference at All Hallows College.
According to Posner, there’s nothing innate about leadership, it all comes down to credibility and learned behaviour. By credibility, he means honesty, competence, forward-looking and inspiring. These traits are what thousands of people in the thousands of surveys consistently say they look for in their leaders, whether in business, politics or sport.
The good news is that good leadership can be learned. It’s a set of skills that can be assimilated, at least by those who are self-aware, exhibit inner strength and most importantly of all, have the intelligence to see what doesn’t work, says Posner. He has been researching leadership for over 30 yearsfalse
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Ahead of a fast-changing future, leaders need to bring their teams back together – with purpose, energy and through fostering a sense of belonging.
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Robots already do surgery, fly drones, drive cars and answer calls for hotel chains. But could they lead human teams? Research at MIT has shown that they can make better managers and that people would rather work for a robot boss who gave out tasks than for a human being. The research by docto
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Okay - confession time. Did you ever leave a meeting and say to yourself – or your confidants something like “…well, that was a complete waste of time…. that’ll never work…. somebody needs to deal with yer man…” Maybe YOU didn’t and ha