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Last month I wrote that leadership only started making sense to me when it became personal. I wrote about Oliver Tambo and the significant role that he played in South Africa. Leadership starts with taking responsibility of your own life.
I work with many people in my coaching practice who blame their unfulfilled lives [...]
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Today I want to share a quote from the late Donald Clifton. Here he describes what was his greatest discovery from three decades of leadership research.
“A leader needs to know his strengths as a carpenter knows his tools, or as a physician knows the instruments at her disposal. What great leaders have in common is [...]
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Today is a guest post by Hermann du Plessis:
I must have read about 50 books and 200 articles on leadership to this day. I have attended more than 20 conferences and workshops on leadership. I have been coached, trained and counselled on leadership. It just seems like there is never an end [...]
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It’s a couple of weeks since I introduced two of the three guest columnists who are going to be writing a monthly piece for Awaken. If you missed those, you can find out more about Hermann Du Plessis and Russ Murphy by clicking on the links. I’ll be introducing Dale Swinburne very soon too.
The big [...]
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Today sees the launch of this dedicated new site – www.samradford.com – where the daily (Monday to Friday) blog for Awaken is now available. This is really a more personal sister site to Awaken Consultancy.
The purpose in separating this from the business site is to make the content more accessible for a broader audience. The [...]
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It is so easy to try being someone other than ourselves.
We all have people we look up to admire. We learn from them. We watch how the lead. We become ‘followers’.
And this is great. It is healthy to have people we have admiration for and are influenced by.
The problem is when when shift from admiration [...]
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Let’s start with another quote from chapter one of ‘Strengths Based Leadership‘:
“Organisations are quick to look for leaders who are great communicators, visionary thinkers, and who can also get things done and follow through. All of these attributes are desirable and necessary for an organisation to succeed. But of all the leaders we have studied, [...]
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The Gallup organisation has a new(ish) book out called Strengths Based Leadership.
It is a really good read and also comes with an update to the StrengthsFinder assessment that gives you feedback on your top five signature themes from a leadership perspective.
The book also includes some research from the perspective of followers and in particular, what makes people [...]
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