by Julia Bröderbauer | Apr 29, 2015 | Lateral Leadership |
Lateral leadership means leading without disciplinary power. The species Lateral Leader more and more claims its place amongst the roles in modern organisations and with it the challenges and chances the lateral leadership style brings along.
To be a successful lateral leader a lot of skills and competencies are needed, far beyond classical leadership tools, in order to smooth potential resistances, to win the employees’ favour and to master projects both with complex teams and tasks. Therefore, those who have success with this challenge really earn the term super-species. In the following you find a description of the up-and-coming lateral leaders.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Apr 27, 2015 | Training Insights |
We’ll do that and then that! And we’ll do it just like this! Go!
Although you feel reluctant facing this kind of rude phraseology and you lack in understanding the motives you force yourself to an “Okay” and leave the conversation with a lot of tasks for which you are absolutely not motivated. The question is: Why? Why don’t you ask for the why more often?
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Apr 20, 2015 | Leadership Tips |
Short-tempered, a little bit choleric, says frankly what he thinks, is annoyed with odds and ends and seems not to give a lot about other people’s advice or opinion: Since many years Homer Simpson enthuses people of any age. But if you meet a Homer-liker communication partner in your working life, enthusiasm decreases immediately. We say: Also with a Homer Simpson effective communication is possible. Give it a try in the following week.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Apr 13, 2015 | Leadership Tips, Training Insights |
Don’t fall down the stairs. Don’t get hurt. Don’t hit your head. Don’t drop that!
Are you already feeling queasy? No wonder. Our brain isn’t able to handle No’s and Dont’s and is just visualizing all these unpleasant situations. We also happen to use dont’s pretty often in our working life – though there is a far more effective way. In the following week, avoid negations and say exactly what you want instead of what you do not want.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Apr 6, 2015 | Training Insights |
At the beginning of a new project, there normally is commitment about the direction to go. Equipped with a backpack full of their own experiences, expectations and skills all team members hit the same road. However, in the end everybody arrives somewhere else or gets lost alongside the road. How you as a leader can prevent your team from this phenomenon? Continuously lead the way by giving helpful feedback.
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