5 Tips for Developing Indirect Influence
To drive change, often you have to get people who don’t work for you to work for you. Here are five tips that will help your idea gain traction.
To drive change, often you have to get people who don’t work for you to work for you. Here are five tips that will help your idea gain traction.
An effective vision is a powerful beacon that inspires every member of the organization and counteracts the centrifugal forces of self-interest and cynicism.
Today’s ideal civil services are lean and mean, spread thin but agile, with staff cultivating resilience, change and time management skills, and adaptability like never before in this century. What does this mean for government “extracurriculars”?
Businesses are talking about employee engagement being the secret to success, but ask them how to get there and responses span the spectrum.
Employees without anyone listed under them on an organizational chart are capable of exhibiting leadership skills superior to other employees who have “manager” or “director” in their title.
Communication can often be an afterthought. But if you frame your message correctly, it’s easier to get the results you want.
Building and maintaining community and agency partnerships is vital for improvements.
Today’s workplace environment demands recognition of the value of followers. Understand this leader-follower dynamic and value each person for the strengths they bring to accomplishing work and serving our communities.
As many of us probably know, it’s not hard coming up with good ideas. The hard part is convincing others to support the ideas you’re proposing. When it comes to change management, having a marketing mindset can help.
Most supervisors and leaders spend too much time and energy focusing on their top performers and/or their low performers. But the group they should really be concerned about is the solid middle group – Joe & Jane Average. Why?