Welcome Back to Part 3 in the 3-Part Series of The DiSC Personality Test and Leadership Challenges
Effective business leadership is vital for meeting employee, customer and business goals. Leadership skills are skills that can, fortunately, be learned. A great source for learning is an Online DiSC Personality Test. Continue reading
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The DiSC® Personality Test and Leadership Challenges (Part 1 of 3)
Leadership Challenges
Leadership and management are very important part of any organization.
Leaders are supposed to do the job of creating a vision, guiding and directing, dealing with incoming issues, monitoring budgets and, perhaps above all, acting as a mentor to their team.
A leader’s job is very demanding as it is, but there are also a number of particular challenges leaders often have to deal with. Let’s take a look at the most common issues. Continue reading
Leadership Traits and Qualities (Part 2)
Our final segment of this two part series covering some of the most notable characteristics and traits of leaders and those in leadership roles.
If you didn’t have a chance to read the first part of this series, we covered the two following traits: honesty and an ability to be open and communicative. To round out the series, here are some additional traits that help to characterize, define, and understand what it means to be a leader…
Leadership Traits and Qualities (Part 1 of 2)
Are You in a Leadership or Management Position?
Do you consider yourself to be a natural born leader?
While most of us work our way up to the top of the leadership ladder or just have a natural instinct for leading, there are a number of traits that help to understand leadership in general, and what it means to lead.
While some of these traits come naturally, they can also be learned if enough effort and dedication are put into them. Wondering what they are? Here are a few that have been deemed as some of the top leadership traits around…
The DiSC Work of Leaders® Model and Other Leadership Models
The Speed Of Business Is Increasing
The speed of business seems to get faster and faster.
Because of this, it is all too easy to focus on the here and now and to forget the systematic issues within a business that actually are at the heart of long term success. Leadership development is one of the areas that often could do with a lot more attention. The impact of having great leaders is a critical element to any company’s success and spans across an entire organization, including employee well-being, improved engagement, employee satisfaction, retention and productivity.
Companies face an increasing number of challenges today such as globalization, competition, continuous innovation, new technology and leadership gaps at all levels. But the bottom line of any organization will be massively improved with a strong emphasis on leadership development. Luckily, awareness of this is being raised and there are now various models of leadership development that are getting increasingly popular. Let’s take a look at some of these.