Archive for 'Leadership Skills'

Effective Problem-Solving Management Skills

ZimTech Training Solutions is training Tampa, Orlando, Clearwater, Sarasota and other cities across Florida and the country on various business skills. If you’re a new manager and want to improve on your problem solving skills, listed are seven great ways to help you do it. 

1. Be Proactive

There are likely issues that seriously need to be addressed which you are not aware of. Anticipate and plan for problems rather than wait and take a reactive approach. You ...

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18
MAR
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4 Reasons Brainstorming in Business is Important

Brainstorming is an effective technique used in business to generate ideas about a particular topic. When it comes down to it in today’s business world, ideas convert to money. Brainstorming is a tool that is both valuable and critical to the success of a team, and ultimately to the success of an organization. Brainstorming sessions offer many beneficial opportunities in business, including:

1. Original and valuable ideas are generated from individuals.

Brainstorming sessions encourage individuals to share unique ...

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3
MAR
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Killer Mistakes Leaders Need To Avoid

To be a great leader you need to possess many different skills to master the job.  You need to know how to problem solve, handle conflicts, have good presentation and sales skills, give great customer service, have excellent time management skills and so on.  Although it is important to master these skills as a leader, it is also important to know how to avoid mistakes as well.  Even though we can learn from our mistakes, it is always better to ...

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FEB
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An Effective Benchmarking Process

Benchmarking is essentially an in-depth critical examination of an organization, product or process to determine how it compares with other organization, product or process which may be considered as being ‘best in class’.

Best practice needs to be:

  • Identified
  • Analyzed
  • Translated  

into a format which is meaningful to the organization that intends to benefit from it.

The translation process is of critical importance so that the personnel involved can visualize how best practice methodologies can be both adapted and adopted into the organization. This can be ...

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26
JAN
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7 Steps to Handling Change in Business

1. Embrace change

Since change is inevitable and often constant, fighting it will bring no benefit to you or to the business. Instead, try to look forward to the advantages it may offer.  Think how it will help and improve your business.

2. Adopt and maintain a positive “can do” attitude

This is crucial to your personal and professional success as the business world constantly changes and demands your cooperation.  As the world changes, so must you.  Realize you need to change to ...

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18
JAN
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Keys to Effective Teamwork

1. Define Roles:

Clearly defining team member roles upfront will create cohesion, enforce expectations and avoid conflict. Each team member must understand their purpose and what they are responsible for, as this will define their role. Each should have a clearly-defined role, yet be ready to provide backup and support as needed. The attitude, “that’s not my job” will quickly undermine effective teamwork.

2. Define Goals:

The goals of a team must be clearly defined upfront and agreed upon by each member. It ...

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16
DEC
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6 Best Practices for Leadership Development

Many companies fail because they lack proper leadership.  Not just leadership from the CEO but from its line managers and supervisors.  Listed below are six key leadership traits that should be trained and developed in companies today.

1) Leadership development needs to be aligned to the overall strategy of an organization.

2) Leadership competencies throughout the organization must reflect the values of the organization.

3) Executives must be involved with the design of the Leadership Development program.

4) Companies should develop their own leaders rather than ...

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22
MAR
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