When should you be Determined versus Flexible?

Folklore contains numerous sayings underpinning the idea that leadership needs to be firm, decisive and above all, resolute. The myth goes that changing your mind is a sign of weakness and it leads to vacillation when you and a team are working to a set of objectives. However, how valid is that model? As any structured leadership training will confirm, much work needs...

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Stakeholder Management - Stars Institute of Learning and Development

Leadership is often discussed in the context of things such as providing a role model for other people in the team, delegation, effective decision making, dealing with performance issues and so on.   In all these areas there is an implication of lateral or downwards leadership in the context of what is normally the traditional pyramidal shape to team structure. However...

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How Do You Identify What’s Important?

Almost every individual occasionally has conflicting demands for their attention and need to prioritise where they spend their time as a result. This, of course, isn’t easy!      Even in our private lives, trying to juggle our time can be a major challenge and in a professional environment it can be 10 times harder. There are a number of techniques...

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Youth Leadership Development and Training - What Motivates People To Give 100%?

It is possibly stating the obvious to suggest that different things motivate different people. For example, there is a widespread perception that money or some other form of material reward is the prime motivator for many people in terms of giving 100% effort rather than something less. It sometimes surprises people to know that numerous studies have shown that this belief...

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How do You Deal with somebody who is Disruptive?

It’s perhaps every leader’s nightmare – an associate or somebody in the team who is proving to be disruptive in one way or another. In fact, this can even occasionally be encountered on things such as training and development courses. Disruption can come in many shapes and forms. In some cases it may appear to be directed at attempting to undermine the leader or presenter...

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TOP TIPS for Keeping People’s Attention!

If you are running any form of seminar, lecture, workshop, training course or youth leadership development program, keeping the attention of your audience can sometimes be a challenge. Even if the attendees are attending voluntarily, there are some aspects of human psychology you need to be aware of if you are to avoid people potentially mentally ‘switching off’ and disengaging. •   ...

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What’s stopping you Achieving Your Full Potential?

One of the commonest things encountered by people working in developing human potential is individuals who have low self-esteem.This can be manifest in a number of different ways but one of the commonest is a tendency to view potential outcomes with an unrealistic degree of pessimism or to engage in self-deprecation with an associated “can’t do” mentality.Why is this so...

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