Leadership
How to review leadership talent
- Published on 6 Aug 2012
- Mampai Motsau
Hiring a new chief executive? Directing your focus towards better financial results or falling behind competitors? All of these factors can negatively affect the performance of an organisation’s leadership team which may make it necessary to conduct leadership talent reviews.
How leaders create meaning
- Published on 18 Jul 2012
- Jane Macgregor
Creating meaning applies to leaders of large and small organisations, team leaders as well as individuals leading their own lives. Once meaning is defined and linked to measurement of performance, people become engaged in their organisation, team and their own lives.
Leadership development in the Western Cape Government
- Published on 1 Jul 2012
- Craig Yeatman
When the Western Cape Government (WCG) set out to develop their brand of leadership across several layers of their hierarchy, they had some specific requirements for the intervention. Director-General in the Western Cape Government Advocate B. Gerber says, "Leadership excellence is an important element of the WCG people strategy in order to support a vision-led and values driven approach."
Is leadership branding an issue in South Africa?
- Published on 28 Jun 2012
- Carl Eichstadt
Management educators, Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood define a leadership brand as, “A reputation for developing exceptional managers with a distinct set of talents that are uniquely geared to fulfil customers’ and investors’ expectations." In South Africa, leadership branding is a topic that is seldom spoken about and I was wondering why? Is it even a necessary field? With this in mind, I spoke to South African-based organisational psychologist and leadership specialist, Carl Eichstadt, about leadership branding.
Executives: You don’t need to act tough at the top
- Published on 26 Jun 2012
- Patrick Deale
Executives are praised for their successes and maligned for their failures. And because they’re the "movers and shakers" in our midst, their activities and behaviours are relentlessly scrutinised, analysed and judged by any number of observers both inside and outside the organisation.
