How an Awareness of Character Can Strengthen Teams
Good managers know the strengths and development areas of their team members, and these areas are often framed in terms of competencies. In addition to leadership competencies, leader character is …
Author: Helen Schroeder
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Great Leaders Act with Temperance
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” – Leonardo da Vinci Self-control is a helpful skill to have no matter what your role in an …
Handbook for New Supervisors
Handbook for New Supervisors: How to Use Leadership Assessments to Build an Effective Team If you are reading this handbook, you’ve likely been promoted to the role of a supervisor …
Great Leaders Act with Courage
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C.S. Lewis When we think of courage, we often imagine people …
How to Develop Leader Character in an Organization
Leader character is a series of virtues, values, and traits that are typically expressed as habits and observable as behaviors. This means that leader character is present in every organization. …
Leader Character Development Activity
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” SIGMA’s consultants have created a new character development activity that taps into the …
The “Goldilocks” Advantage: Why Balance is Important for Leader Character
Most of us are familiar with the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. For those of you who aren’t, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” is about a little girl …
Great Leaders Are Just
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr. Have you ever left a situation at work feeling like you were treated unfairly? If so, that experience …
Manager’s Guide to Reskilling: Why, When, and How to Reskill Your Team
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.— Alvin Toffler Industries are evolving, perhaps more rapidly …
An Introduction to Succession Planning for Local Government
Joe Lonsdale, an American entrepreneur and managing partner of a prestigious multi-billion-dollar venture capital firm, once remarked, “Good government is vital for economic growth and societal well-being.” But what defines …