Executive Leadership Training How Does It Cut Costs
Conflict is part of todays world, just as the air you breathe. You cannot avoid it in any sphere of your life. However, if you want to continue to improve and grow personally and professionally you should learn how to deal with conflict. In an organization, conflict management is vast area which requires specialized intervention and training.
Executive Leadership Training Managing Conflict
Consider a sales team of 20 persons divides into two groups of two reporting to a supervisor each; the supervisors in turn reporting to a sales manager. Now, in this set up, consider a major conflict between the two 10-people teams, for which an unhealthy competition has become a trend. In this context the people loose focus on their professional goal and concentrate in creating trouble for the other team, which of course, will reciprocate the trouble.
In this tug-of-war the company looses money directly in terms of loss in sales; and indirectly in the effort that it will be involved to repair the damage that has been created as a result of this hostility. The onus of solving a conflict and putting the whole team back on track, falls on the sales manager and the supervisors. These skills required for this intervention are usually the skills one learns in the executive leadership training program that the company sponsors for the managerial cadre.
Executive Leadership Training Can Solve Conflicts
There is specific skills which are required to handle and manage conflict in an organization. Thankfully these skills can be taught. Managing conflict efficiently will bring down the costs of losses in a company by almost thirty percent. Managers are groomed not only to mediate and eliminate conflict but also prevent it. Actually the preventive skills are what makes the conflict manager invaluable to the company.
It is essential to include this aspect of management in all the executive leadership training programs so as to promote a healthy work culture. The competition is a good sign in any organization, but it should come from a need to perform better and not a motivation to restrain others from achieving their highest potential. While the former promotes professional growth, the latter impedes it. Hence, the executive leadership training program does help in cutting losses in any given business organization.
Needless to mention that a leader will not only control and manage conflict effectively, but also promote team building which will by itself cut off any possibility of internal hostility.
The day starts with a somewhat perverse sigh of relief as I browse through the headlines in Haaretz: Riots at a soccer game in Jerusalem, complaints against approval of plans to build luxury condos and hotels blocking public access to the Tel Aviv waterfront, the killing of a guard during a botched supermarket holdup, university students barring access to campus as they protest proposed increases in tuition payments and other proposals for change, the usual weekend traffic accidents, allegations that Israeli security interrogators routinely mistreat and sometimes torture Palestinian detainees . Against the background of political squabbling in the wake of the Winograd report and more news of corruption in high places, it is almost refreshing to read of mundane problems, even crises, the kind that demonstrate that Israel is, after all, a nation like other nations.
But then, of course, the other stuff takes over, a volume of corruption so large that it barely qualifies as news, and our subject in what follows, the Winograd report.
By now, the central findings of that report have been widely publicized. They come as no great surprise in their substance; it is only their candor that jolts. And it is well to remember that this is only a part of the final report, taking us through the pre-war period and the wars first five days. A report on the wretched execution of the war will not be out before summer.
However critical that part of the report will be, it cannot be more encompassing than the part weve already seen " not because of the magnitude of the errors and incompetencies it chronicles nor because of the severity of its criticisms, but because very nearly everyone in Israels political echelon (as also, though not part of the report, Israels army of defenders in America) agreed, as the war began, that Israels response was justified. This was not a war hatched by Israels right wing; it was a war to which very few demurred, Yossi Beilin no less enthusiastic a supporter that Avigdor Lieberman. Theres only a small handful from the leadership echelon who can legitimately say, I told you so.
There is much speculation about what happens next. At the broadest level, the questions really matter: Will the failings of the IDF be repaired? Will better ways be developed to provide civilian authorities with sober assessments and reliable information before hostilities are initiated " even when the civilian authorities are like the Haggadahs fourth son, dont even know what questions to ask?
But the questions that just now tantalize the Israeli public are personal and political. Never before have there been so many rumors, has there been so much intrigue. Will Olmert survive? If yes, will Labor stay in the government? If not, will someone else from Kadima take over? Who " Peres or Livni? Or will there be new elections, and if there are, is Netanyahu the sure winner?
The awkward truth is that there are no winners at all in this entire saga, save for the members of the Winograd team. Hezbollah didnt win, Israel didnt win, no one won. Herewith, a review:
In the first post-Winograd days, it was widely assumed that Olmert could not last. For a brief moment, it seemed likely that both party and nation would turn to Tzipi Livni to take over, and shed surely have been able to govern without having to call for early elections. But Livni made the mistake of calling on Olmert to quit without herself resigning, and that now appears to have been a major tactical blunder. Olmert has now handily survived three no-confidence motions in the Knesset, and may yet remain in office for another year or even for the duration of his term. (If, that is, he also survives the several criminal investigations into his alleged record of corruption.) But he is clearly not a winner. His capacity to govern has been radically compromised. Unless: There is a wee smidgen of a chance that he will seek to rehabilitate himself by undertaking a bold peace initiative, whether (as has begun to be rumored) with Syria or in response to the Arab League initiative of several weeks ago. But he seems hardly the leader to mobilize an anxious and divided Israeli public around the kinds of compromises that a serious negotiation would require. Under current circumstances, he may be more interested in a peace process than in peace.
Amir Peretz? Haaretz recently published a remarkable Ari Shavit interview of Peretz. In it, Peretz pulls a George Tenet. He proclaims himself the misunderstood visionary. But for him, he suggests, the war would have been more terrible " not that his advice was often taken. As he understands it, he was throughout on the side of the angels, while his colleagues in government and the IDF were making horrid decisions. His assessment? The IDF, thanks to him, is already in much better shape than it was before the war, and he will win the Labor party leadership battle, scheduled for a vote on May 28.
Either Peretz is smoking an especially potent hashish or just about everyone else is. His approval rating is a bit higher than Olmerts, which, when most recently measured, stood at two percent. (No, that is not a typo. Two percent, and that is only because I am not mentioning the day last week when it was zero percent.) His principal opponents for leadership of Labor are Ehud Barak and Ami Ayalon. Neither of these is Mr. Charisma, but either should very handily defeat the discredited Peretz.
At that point, Peretz will have to resign as Minister of Defense. (Not entirely by coincidence, he has already announced his intention to quite Defense on May 28 and, having been re-elected as chairman of Labor, then to demand the Treasury ministry as Labors price for staying in the government coalition. But dont hold your breath.) His only consolation, his curiously positive self-image aside, is his evident honesty. So far as I am aware, no hint of scandal has ever been attached to his name, and in Israel these days, thats no small thing; in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But, to mix aphorisms, this particular king turns out to have no clothes.
The generals? Not a one emerged a winner, although some managed to avoid the taint of loss. Dan Halutz, the former Chief of Staff, roundly rebuked in Winograd, is nursing the wounds of his own collapsed career at Harvard, making occasional forays into the wider world. (He was the principal speaker at the Boston communitys recent gathering for Israels Remembrance Day, and spoke, Im told, quite movingly.)
And then the Labor party, the pathetic Labor party, unable to decide whether to cling to power (such as its power is) by remaining in an Olmert government or to quit. Peretz wants to stay, Yuli Tamir wants to stay (and I always take Yuli seriously, even when I dont understand her), Isaac Herzog wants to stay; others, including Ayalon, want out. Barak? One day yes, the next day no. The latest rumor? If Labor quits, Olmert and Kadima will offer the Defense ministry to Netanyahu, and Likud will replace Labor in the coalition. The mongers of that one evidently believe that Defense is an offer Likud will be unable to refuse. After all, that would mean that in the next election, whenever it takes place, Netanyahu will be running as the incumbent MofD. The ploy seems transparent; it is not meant to tempt Likud so much as to force Labor to stay. Labor has much twisting to do, but hey, why not? Twisting has become a Labor specialty. Labor does not want to face Netanyahu in a general election, not yet, but it cannot force Kadima to replace Olmert with Livni. Complicated? Not really. It is enough to know that, true to its recent past, Labor has neither policy nor plan.
And Shimon Peres, who says he wants Olmert to stay but that he is prepared to take on the burden of being interim prime minister should Olmert fall and Kadima, now his party, decide to turn to him. Too coy, by half. Peres is an immensely gifted man who is on the verge of becoming a caricature. That is not because he is well into his 80s; it is because something trips inside him when he gets close to power. The visionary statesman becomes, unbecomingly, a ward heeler. Over the course of the more than 40 years I have known him, there has been much that has been dazzling " and too much that has been off key. No living person has contributed more to Israel, in more arenas, than he " yet every time he tries to present himself as a man of the people, he comes across as a schemer. And now he, too, disclaims responsibility for last summers war. It is unpleasant to behold him in his current stance.
Do not be alarmed or even concerned if you cannot follow all this. All this speculation is very nearly meaningless. It is the stuff of gossip. Its only actual importance is that the gyrating shadows it describes are the reason that Condoleza Rice has decided to postpone her next scheduled mid-May trip to the region. In Israel, were told, there is surprise at such an unprecedented decision. It is in fact surprising that the Israelis are surprised, if in fact (and not just in rumor) they are. Israeli political leaders are masters at wheel-spinning, Just follow the stream of utterly meaningless promises that within days, weeks at most, the illegal settlements will be removed, the squatters in Hebron will be ousted, the kidnapped soldiers will be released. People in Israel often describe the nations political life as a circus. A circus, with trapeze artists flying through the air with the greatest of ease and an appreciative audience, laughing at the antics of the clowns? Hardly; neither grace nor wit. More like an amateur vaudeville show at a convention of undertakers. Sort of like the ins and outs and ups and downs and backs and forths of the Palestinians. And in the meanwhile, lives are lost or wasted, and peace is again postponed.
Listen to Lisa #6 - Show ideas - How do you find a topic that will capture your audience?
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Trying to find a topic for show ideas can be challenging. Its kind of like making dinner. I dont know about you but finding something new to cook every night can be frustrating. Show ideas can come from many different places. I get most of mine from conversations. I know that my audience is made up of non-profit organizations so I try to really listen to their needs. The topic of this weeks Listen to Lisa came from a conversation with Jeff Jaroscak with The Center for Leadership in Education. Jeff mentioned that he needed some help grabbing new show ideas. Personally, I think that your best resource for ideas is the news. There is something everyday in your newspaper or nightly news show that can be used for a topic. Maybe its a change in policy in your state, it could be an issue on a ballot for your community. Sometimes, things are said off the cuff that can change your view on an important topic. Make sure that you are always in tune to the audience and its needs. Next week our topic will be: Staff - bringing out the best in your team members. Until then, have a great week!
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