Leadership Development Newsletter

Our  leadership development newsletter goes to clients, colleagues and everyone who has joined our mailing list. It aims to educate and support leaders in their professional development and learning.

It highlights resources – workshops, conferences, books and multi-media products – that can facilitate leadership learning and development. It is also a vehicle for informing clients, colleagues and subscribers of the leadership development services offered by People Empowered.

• Five Actions To Take You To The Top Of Your Industry Or Profession. June 10, 2013

  There are many people going to work each day who just want to do a good job, take home enough money for them to live on happily but they do not have any ambition to climb a ladder or aspirations to leadership and management. If that’s you, then this article is not for you. There are others who want to play a significant role in their industry sector but are missing out on promotions and opportunities. They are being overlooked in favour of people with skill sets they do not have, and are generally not even aware they need, to be in leadership positions in today’s workplace.  They are people who  think that because they have a string ...

• What Are Soft Skills? Some More Insights. May 2, 2013

  In this People Empowered newsletter, there are three ways you can find the answer to the question : What are Soft Skills? 1. Article – What Are Soft Skills? Some More Insights. 2. A New Audio and E-book Transcript – The Hard Stuff About Soft Skills And Why We Need To Take Them Seriously! 3. My book – Soft Skills – The Hard Stuff of Success – will answer most of your questions about What are Soft Skills? ________________________________________ What Are Soft Skills? Some More Insights. “Why don’t you just call them “people skills”? That’s what they are, aren’t they?” This is a question I am often asked. My reply: “No, they aren’t? Soft Skills are much more than people skills.” James Stephen, ...

• Success Is Getting On With People. April 8, 2013

  Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, once said: “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” It would seem a very obvious statement, wouldn’t it? Yet, it is not at all easy to achieve. Every day in our workplaces our relationships are challenged by people who see things differently to the way we see them. They come from such diverse backgrounds, different from us in gender, age, sexual orientation, race, language, education and physical ability. They have been socialised in very different ways. They have different values. What’s important to them may not be important to us at all. The outcome of all this is that ...

• Die To The Old Year – 2012 – Give Birth To The New – 2013. February 4, 2013

  Insights From My Dying Brother.   My brother, Colin, died on December 2, 2012, just 21 months after he was diagnosed with cancer. He was only 55 years old. That’s not supposed to be. People are not supposed to die at 55. His family and friends who walked the road with him over those 21 months were confronted by that and the reality of our own mortality. I made him my priority, especially during 2012, which is why only those I have worked face to face with have had my attention. Those of you who have subscribed to my mailing list have missed out – but I’m about to remedy that. There are times in our life when we ...

• Soft Skills – Is “Soft” a Problem? October 25, 2012

  Editorial. When an issue begins to be discussed in such prestigious places as the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, we need to take notice. When business schools around the world begin to add programs on this issue to their curriculum, we need to seriously look at it. When, every day, Google Alerts churns out blogs, forum Q and As, news items, journal and magazine articles, interviews with prominent leaders and managers and podcasts on this same issue, my conviction is strengthened that Soft Skills is an issue whose time has come.  Some, like Richard Barrett, were more visionary than most of us. They saw it coming.             What has been labelled the ...

• What Do You Do When Your Buttons Are Pressed – Are You Emotionally Intelligent? June 25, 2012

  Whether we like it or not, our emotions wake up with us every morning. They hold our hand throughout the day, walk into the office with us, stand between us and every person we meet and intrude on every conversation we have.  If they are so much part of our lives, it makes sense that we have a good relationship with them. This is what we call emotional intelligence.The feature article in this newsletter is: What Do You Do When Your Buttons Are Pressed – Are You Emotionally Intelligent?Check out also: Workshops I am presenting for the Geelong Branch of the CPA – July 5, August 9, September 6. Key Person of Influence Brand Accelerator Day In Sydney ...

• Tips For Being Assertive At Work With Style! May 24, 2012

  How many times do we experience situations at work that frustrate, annoy, disturb or concern us but we do nothing about them?How many times do we see examples of discrimination and unfair treatment of employees by managers or other employees but we say nothing?What about the many times we complain about someone behind their back but never talk with them directly in an attempt to try and resolve the difficulty? How often do we agree to do something we really don’t want to do, and immediately afterwards feel annoyed – with ourselves – because we didn’t say “no”? How many of us lament that we don’t know how to say “no” without offending people? How often do we start off ...

• Women Can Have It All, But Not All At Once. March 8, 2012

  It was Gillian Franklin, CEO of The Heat Group and one of Australia’s most successful, well-respected and admired female CEOs who made the comment: Women can have it all, but not all at once. Even when we, as professional women, try to pace it, it is still very challenging for most of us. Our significant relationships are important to us as women, but the importance we have given to them has often been detrimental to our careers. Those responsible for our promotion and advancement have at times interpreted that commitment as a sign of us lacking career ambition. We are often caught in a bind juggling the demands of our careers and families with the excitement and passion we have ...

• Your Personal Leadership Style for 2012 January 18, 2012

  Happy New Year to all my readers. In this new year I have something new to offer you also. You can now choose to listen to my newsletter or read it. Listen to My Newsletter or Download it to your iPod here. MP3 File There is real momentum building for me this year and I know 2012 will be professionally and personally very successful for me. I want you to share in that. So let me help you build some momentum. Let me help you get some foundations in place that will help you make 2012 very successful, meaningful and productive for you. While my readers are a diverse group of people, most seem to be professionals. They have done a ...