http://www.votiveleadership.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:23:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Want a workforce of high performing, wholly committed and inspired employees? Then you need to engage them – so says the hotly anticipated MacLeod Review of employee engagement, published in July 2009. Paul Sweetman assesses the findings and asks what they mean for managers September 2009 Not many managers would deny that ... http://www.votiveleadership.com/blog/news/macleod-survey/ Admiral Lord Nelson, Gandhi, and JFK. All “leadership legends” who are looked up to, quoted, and studied but are they really legends or leadership myths? Simon Hollington looks at the lessons to be learned from these great leaders. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Admiral Lord Nelson Nelson was courageous, determined, a demanding task-master, a visionary and, of ... http://www.votiveleadership.com/blog/business-leadership/legendary-leadership-lessons/ The recently developed self leadership programme has been greeted with some extraordinary success. Through one of our learning partners we provided assistance at a conference for the contract catering company, Charlton House. Over 200 chefs and managers gathered at Beaumont House near Runnymede on a sunny Saturday, to celebrate their ... http://www.votiveleadership.com/blog/news/extraordinary-gains-extraordinary-success/ I recently attended a seminar on personal development which got me thinking about the phrase "ExtraOrdinary". We hear it mentioned so many times in the market place and in the media; "these are extraordinary times!" And indeed they are, and they need extraordinary people to step up and take the reins. ... http://www.votiveleadership.com/blog/business-leadership/extraordinary-times-extraordinary-people/  This is a much talked about facet of Leadership Development, however when you look at the vast array of development programmes which exist out in the market place, you will find very few that focus on authenticity. The reason is that it does not conform with the standard competency based ... http://www.votiveleadership.com/blog/business-leadership/authenticity-led/ Employee engagement is something we hear a lot of at the moment from Human Resources directors. Companies are continually looking for ways to engage their employees and to achieve higher scores in employee satisfaction surveys. At Votive Leadership we believe that engagement is part of each of us learning how to ... http://www.votiveleadership.com/blog/business-leadership/employee-engagement-challenge-today/ Over the years there has been much talk about "leadership", and indeed LySB is a good example of the highlighted status this topic receives. However there has been much less talk about the important topic of "Followership". Leaders need followers and followers can behave in a variety of differing ways, ... http://www.votiveleadership.com/blog/business-leadership/an-exploration-of-followership/ Welcome to the launch of the all new Votive Leadership web site. Thank you for finding us!! Our aim was to create a new site which was easy to use and more relevant to what we actually do. Hopefully the pages will give you a better insight into our activity, and ... http://www.votiveleadership.com/blog/news/votive-leadership-new-website-launch/