Archive for the ‘Management Development’ Category

ROI for Soft Skills Training

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I was talking today with a former Director of Executive Development for a major company – one of the best companies to work for in the U.S. He reminded me of how his organization was able to calculate ROI for the Enlightened Leadership Solutions work we had done for him.

There is a friendly little challenge for you at the end of the 8 minute video.

Listen to it now and provide your comments!

What are your thoughts about the video, the ROI calculation and the challenge? Comment now, or send us an email.

Best regards,

Ed Oakley & the Enlightened Leadership Team

ps: Click on this link Making Managers into Leaders Institute for detailed information.

Management Skills vs Leadership Skills, or is it AND…?

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Hi all,

We continue to be grateful for all your feedback via email and comments. While it’s tough to respond to them directly, you can bet we’re reading them all and LISTENING!

This video in our “Experiment in Leadership Development” series addresses how we see management and leadership and their importance to each other. It might be familar to Enlightened Leadership clients, but the example story might be new to you.

The format of this one is VERY DIFFERENT. Please give us your perspectives on it!

So, please give us your comments, and if you haven’t already, fill out the survey. All of this will make sure our future products/services better fit your needs.And yes, we are working hard on something to announce. We’re not trying to hide that, but frankly your input has us scampering back to make changes and improvements. We’ve delayed the project for quite a while because of your input. And we’re not complaining, because we want the final “product” to make a huge difference for you!I’ve personally never known very much about marketing, but the feedback you’re giving us beats any marketing survey I’ve personally ever seen. It’s like you’re really engaged in determining what we release. What a concept! Keep talking to us about your management skills development needs, and we’ll keep listening.

Appreciatively,

Ed Oakley & the Enlightened Leadership Solutions Team

Leadership Development: Effective and Easy Performance Reviews

Monday, October 20th, 2008

This is the third in the series of videos in our Leadership Development Experiment. This one is focused on accomplishing Performance Evaluations, Assessments, Appraisals or Reviews easily and effectively. It focuses on bringing out the best in the employee, while making it easy for you to do.

Our perspective is that if Performance Appraisals are easy AND effective, you’ll do them more often – resulting in even more performance improvement.

Check it out!

Share your thoughts and value below! Also, complete our survey and let us know of other topics you would like to see on video.

Best regards,
The Enlightened Leadership Team

Leadership Development: the Power of Focus

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Dear subscribers,

We are so appreciative of the quality and quantity of the feedback you gave us on the first content video in our Experiment in Leadership Development. You guys (and gals) are awesome!

Following is our second in the series of videos.

Where we as managers/leaders focus our attention and energy has a huge impact on the results we get through others – the point of management and leadership. It also impacts our own personal results, as this video will clarify.

Watch the video and give us feedback – please! :-)

Now give us feedback below and let us know what you would like to see on a video by answering the survey at this link. What would you like to see a survey about?

Our best to all,

Ed Oakley & the Enlightened Leadership team
ELS home website

Leadership Development: A Perspective on Leadership Styles

Monday, October 20th, 2008

When we do management and leadership development, we like to invite the managers involved, as well as employee leaders, to look at extremes of leadership styles. The process also distinguishes somewhat between management and leadership.

Watch the video and give us feedback on the value.

Give us your comments below! What would you like to see a video about?

Ed Oakley Making Managers Into Leaders