http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal Ed Oakleys Leadership Tips Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:36:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The foundational part of any management or leadership development or training or learning is awareness. Can we possibly be effective leaders if we are not fully conscious of what is going on around us? I have to work hard every day on not ONLY being aware of the little things going ... http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal/2008/08/26/leadership-without-awareness-is-it-possible/ We are delighted to pull back the curtains of Making Managers into Leaders Institute for the first time for all our subscribers and Institute Members! We would love to hear your comments after taking the tour. Enjoy the tour! Come back and click on Making Managers into Leaders Institute for more information. [kml_flashembed ... http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal/2008/08/11/take-a-video-tour-of-making-managers-into-leaders-institute/ 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 ... http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal/2008/07/22/roi-for-soft-skills-training/ Over the weekend, as I was thinking of special people I wanted as guest speakers for our Making Managers into Leaders Institute, I began to think of our own current and former facilitators, coaches and consultants. I had never realized it before, but I was able to quickly write down ... http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal/2008/07/14/the-experiment-in-leadership-development-continues-audios-want-to-play-too/ Wow, wait to you see who we're being compared to. We're honored and grateful! Please VOTE now for the #1 Leadership Blog. While we hope you'll vote for Leadership Made Simple, we just consider it a privilige to be on the same list as these others. After scrolling down and experiencing some ... http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal/2008/07/10/leadership-made-simple-named-top-10-leadership-blogs-for-2008/ Ok, it is time to share with you what we are up to and where we are in our Leadership Development Experiment. You've had a profound impact on changing what we "thought" we were going to announce already. That's really significant, because we have been working on this for quite ... http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal/2008/07/01/leadership-development-experiment-what-are-up-to/ 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 ... http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal/2008/06/24/management-skills-vs-leadership-skills-or-is-it-and/ We'll have more of the content videos, and now Ed Oakley wants to share a bit of his personal story and some perspectives received from your comments so far. Please watch the video and provide your feedback and/or answer the survey. Thanks for watching. Please give feedback below or respond to ... http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal/2008/06/16/a-personal-message-from-ed-oakley/ 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 ... http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal/2008/06/08/leadership-development-effective-and-easy-performance-reviews/ 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 ... http://www.leadershipmadesimple.com/journal/2008/06/02/leadership-development-the-power-of-focus/