What makes a great leader? There are a lot of different ingredients to recipes that makes a great leader. As with making food, there is thousands of ways to cook the same dish. Today I want to focus on one single skill, the ability to inspire others.

I have been reading about Employee Engagement lately, like this post; What, Really, Is Employee Engagement? From Steve Roesler at Allthingsworkplace.com. This post is great because it includes 8 key drivers of engagement, and other recourses on the topic.

“I want to be a leader” – Have you ever thought that it would be cool to be the boss? Is a leadership career tempting? Do you wonder what it takes to become a leader? I meet people that say that they have leadership ambitions all the time, but very few show their ambitions. I want to give you an advice. Leadership is a choice, and you can choose to follow my advice or not.

As a leader you might end up in situations that require immediate action or a crossroad suddenly appears in front of you. A decision is to be made. I have read a lot of leadership biographies lately where one thing stands out as a common skill for success, the ability to take on new challenges. In most of these examples a leader will be asked to do a new job within the company because of a job well down somewhere else the latest years. This means that the leader need to step away from success and move into unknown territory. …

I was recently asked this question, not from a friend or not from someone I can answer directly, but I found this in my keyword reference in Google Analytics, this means that someone out there are looking for an answer to this question on Google, and he landed on this page And I am not sure that this post answered the question.
At first glance I would answer yes to the question. A leader is a person that inspire for action, and someone not likable… well I imagine that they would have problems getting other people inspired.
That is still not a full …

You passed the nerve wrecking job interview and you are just about to start at your new job, what do you do? I will try to give you some pointers from managements view. I will relate this to my experience from sales and call centre life. I have been working with sales for almost 20 years, and I currently manage a call centre crew going on for the third year. So this article will be most useful for people with none or little education. Hopefully highly educated people just about to start a career might get something out of it …