June 2010
CareerTips
The Five Dimensions of Leadership
By Myles R. Golden
Occasionally I think that in my twelve years of career transition and outplacement consulting and coaching, that surely I have heard about every story there is relative to leadership or the lack of leadership in an organization. It seems that some businesses just seem to succeed in spite of their leadership. The recent debacle in the Gulf Coast has created an even greater interest in just what is leadership anyway? What I have observed in my forty years of management and community service is that there is no doubt in my mind that an organization, whether private or public, needs different types of leadership at various stages of their existence. All businesses and organizations are in a life cycle just like we humans.
Pondering this subject, which coincided with a need for a Monday morning roundtable program, Ann Golden brought to my attention a webinar posted on the www.CPP.com website entitled The Five Dimensions of Leadership. CPP is a world leader in personality, career, and organizational development assessments. So I went there and found quite a bit of study has been done on leadership, and the writer, Scott Campbell, says it this way:
There are five dimensions of leadership.
Click here to read about those five dimensions.
Women Leadership Styles
by Carol Hymowitz, editorial director of ForbesWoman.com
Female leaders have many of the same qualities as their male colleagues, especially an ability to set high goals and inspire others to fulfill them. But women are different in some particular ways that make them valuable additions to decision making teams.
For one thing, women are more motivated by the purpose or meaning of their work than men, who focus more on compensation and their job titles. Women also tend to show more emotions at work and are more risk averse, according to Joanna Barsh, a senior partner at McKinsey & Company who leads the consulting firm's effort to develop women leaders.
Barsh, who also is coauthor of How Remarkable Women Lead: A Breakthrough Model for Work and Life, told a recent gathering of women sponsored by the National Center for Research on Women to be themselves and view their distinct leadership qualities as strengths.
Click here to read the full article.
The Four Practices of a Visionary Leader
by John C. Maxwell
 In February 1895, brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere patented the cinematograph, an all-in-one film camera, projector, and printer. With the use of their invention, the two Frenchmen created the concept of a motion picture. Their public screening in March 1895 was history's first. Later on that year the Lumieres reached another milestone, as a showing of their work became the earliest instance of an audience paying admission to watch a film.
Initially the brothers made a splash, producing thousands of short films in a span of less than two years. Their footage, shot at a variety of exotic locations, is widely considered to be the forebear of the modern documentary. However, despite their pioneering work in cinematography, the brothers failed to foresee the broad appeal of motion pictures. Within five years, the Lumieres had given up filmmaking to return to their previous work developing still photographs. "The cinema is an invention without a future," Louis Lumiere allegedly remarked.
Click here to read the full article.
Student Leaders - Real Leaders?
by Michael Josephson
I didn’t mean to be disrespectful, but when I was invited to speak to a group of student leaders at a prominent college, I asked what they had done to justify the label “leader.”
Most responded that they were selected or elected to represent fellow students and that their official position in student government confirmed they were leaders.
I suppose “office” or “authority” is a form of leadership, but to me leadership is an active noun. Office provides authority and status that can be used to lead, but if those tools aren’t employed effectively, the officeholder is not a leader.
True leaders are catalysts to bold action or meaningful change. They teach, persuade, and inspire. They change minds and attitudes. They mobilize people. The credentials of a real leader are the list of things he or she reforms for the better.
Unfortunately, exemplary student leadership is as rare as exemplary governmental leadership. One reason is that politicians in both contexts are often more concerned with building their resumes than changing the world. Another is that they tend to be so preoccupied with small issues that appeal to the immediate self-interest of their constituents that they fail to address harder, but more important, problems.
Focusing on the perennial issues of student government – parking, food services, social events, and apathy – virtually guarantees insignificance.
If you want to be a real leader, do something that truly matters. Tackle binge drinking, substance abuse, plagiarism and other cheating, irresponsible and disrespectful sex, hazing, or indifferent and incompetent teaching.
Sure, these issues are complex and difficult, but that’s why we need leaders.
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.
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“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves” ~ Anonymous
Golden Career Strategies Speaks:
Recent and Upcoming Speaking Engagements & Sponsorships
Myles Golden spoke at Simpsonville United Methodist Church June 1, 2010.
Myles Golden and Pam Wessel spoke to Dynamic Realty on "Networking to Grow Your Business" June 2, 2010
GCS ~ Silver Sponsor for GSATC (Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Technology Council)
GROW Expo - May 25, 2010
Pam Wessel presented Career Transition & Career Development
Myles Golden Interviewed on SC Business Review with Mike Switzer
Friday, May 14, 2010
Narrative: Could many college graduates soon be returning home to their parent’s payroll?
Description: Mike Switzer interviews Myles Golden, president of Golden Career Strategies in Greenville, SC. www.goldencareerstrategies.com |
