The Productivity Profile of a Religious Leader

In what way is a religious leader productive? He or she can be productive in one or more of the four following roles.

Ethics and Values: A Leader's Imperative

Ethics and Values: A Leader's Imperative

How Leaders Respect Followers with Fairness - Nu Leadership Series

Examine what it means to implement an effective diversity program while maintaining unity. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

Planning to Define the Outcome

How can planning proceed in the absence of clearly stated strategic objectives and of a clearly defined Desired End State (DES)? How does the military determine its “measures of success?”

Communicating Knowledge and Insight

A leader that is willing to expend resources without clearly defined and articulated values is essentially creating a formula for failure. Enthusiasm, excitement, innovation, and zeal can be great traits with proper direction. Values constitute this direction.

Core issue: Moral, Immoral, or Amoral

Many organizations focus more on ethics rather than morals. Ethics is an intellectual approach to moral issues that asks questions such as how one ought to behave in a specific situation (for example, is abortion morally permissible?) Wether or not the claim necessitates a specific ethical stance is a matter of debate.

Organizational Training Programs

Training programs are designed to create an environment within the organization that fosters the life-long learning of job related skills. Training is a key element to improving the overall effectiveness of the organization whether it’s basic skills to perform the job or advanced skills to improve current abilities.

Human Capital Management

Values play an important role in determining organizational effectiveness. However, many leaders overlook competency.

Transformational Leadership

Transformational leadership is leading by motivating. Transformational leaders provide extraordinary motivation by appealing to followers' ideals and moral values and inspiring them to think about problems in new ways.

Critical Tasks of Leadership

There is no lack of managers. There is a critical shortage of leaders. Organizational leadership is a skill position. It can be learned. There is a discipline that needs to be mastered. This article outlines critical aspects of leading an organization.

Filanthropy Philanthropy

Filanthropy is a common misspelling of philanthropy. Nevertheless your heart is in the right place and that is all that matters. Would you like to make the world a better place through your charitable contributions?

Servent Leadership: Aspiring to Leadership

Paul applies talent management later in the letter when he urges Timothy to accept his call to leadership. “Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.” (1 Timothy 4:14).

Servent Leadership: Self-Discipline

The most basic defining moment demands that leaders resolve the issue of self-discipline, which has serious implications for their future. In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline was their number one responsibility.

The Introspective Leader's Advantage

Leadership style is influenced, in part, by the natural role people tend to play, such as mentor-type, talent-spotter, or a serial entrepreneur. Many leaders haven't stopped to think about what their natural role is, but those leaders who do take the time to truly understand their natural roles and how those roles affect those around them have an advantage over those who don't take this inward-looking journey.