CYGNUS Perspectives Scott Borland
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- Wirtschaft
Leadership Insights for Business Success
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Playing It Safe is Risky Business
Taking the 'safe' route when crafting strategy can create unforeseen and undesirable outcomes. While it may seem intuitive to take advantage of emerging opportunities while minimizing risks, it may 'cost' much more to a company's vitality and health.
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Feedback - Easier to Give than Get
To improve and grow, leaders must actively seek out relevant feedback from others as to how they’re 'showing up’ and performing. But far too often, leaders hand out lots of feedback to others while getting little or no feedback themselves. In this episode, Scott highlights six key steps to remedy this situation.
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Executive Presence: Essential but Elusive
Without executive presence, aspiring mid-level leaders will find their route to bigger roles severely limited. Several key qualities define this elusive attribute - but the good news is that they can be developed.
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Navigating the Matrix - Who's the Boss?
Navigating situations when you, or your employee, has two (or more) bosses is challenging - to say the least! Whether it's a formal arrangement or something tied to a specific project or activity - there are five key things you can do to ensure success.
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Two Questions for Big Results
As a leader, there are two powerful questions you can consistently ask to improve your team and group events. Discover how these surprisingly simple questions can make a big difference to your team meetings, planning sessions or brainstorming events.
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Team Work Makes the Dream Work
We all know the importance of your work group's effectiveness to overall team performance and company success. But what do you do when high performing individuals on your team create turbulence? Here are five key actions to help smooth the way.