Bob Williams

Two leadership system takeaways

May 13th, 2010 | Leave a comment | Tags: ,

I attended a brief course on a “leadership system” earlier this month. The material of the course was filled with relevant and practical thoughts on how to establish, promote, and maintain a leadership system in the work place. Two of the items that stuck with me at the end of the course were inspirational leadership and a leadership process.

Inspirational Leadership

Inspirational leadership is about inspiring team members to high performance. That’s an assumed goal in any organization, but how is it achieved? What is it that motivates team members to high performance levels? Some of the attributes and behaviors of inspirational leadership include:

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Bob Williams

Passion and emotion leadership primer

December 26th, 2009 | One comment | Tags: , ,

Organizational leaders use the terms ‘passion’ and ‘emotion’ in their communication to try to frame desired and undesired behavior. Passion is typically used in the positive context. You might hear things like “We want our people to be passionate about their jobs” or “We promote passionate employees in the workplace”. On the contrary emotion, is typically used in a negative context. We hear things like “Don’t be emotional” or “We are looking for employees to react without emotion”.

So what’s really the difference between these two nouns and what’s the leadership principal we should follow? Webster defines passion as a strong liking or desire for an activity or thing and Wikipedia …Continue reading >>