The Mindshift Corner

The Importance of Communication in Leadership and moreso in relationship cannot be over emphasis. Many times we trivialize relationship due to the fact that we expect people to know what we want or what we need without effectively communication it. This has so much affected leadership is organization, such that the bridge between the Manager and the Employee which ought to be Communication has been broken because bosses don't believe in the opinions of their staff and it many times reflect in their approach to leadership in such team. What is Communication? Being able to communicate effectively is perhaps the most important of all life skills. It is what enables us to pass information to other people, and to understand what is said to us. Imagine you have pain and you're in need of something, for a sentimental person seeing that people are around you, you expect them to know what you want and all that, which is not possible. Many of us need to learn to effectively communicate. ...

Motivation in Leadership Today with the increase in the number of people that uses the Social Media, some have taken it upon themselves to be a source of inspiration to others. Whilst this is on, we have another extreme of the same coin where some exaggerate this inspiration and makes the real one appear bad. Everyday of our lives, we engage in Jobs and activities that are sometimes what we need and what we don't need but needed for what we need. Some start and didn't finish what they started because they lost enthusiasm to continue. The Purpose of motivation is to charge people to do more and gain better expressions of their own potentials. The issue many times is "exaggerations", some principles give by some folks are quiet unrealistic so it tends to make motivation bad. Motivation is not bad at all, it actually spur you to relevance and sustainability. We all need motivation, even the person speaking against motivation. Many use motivation to motivate people to sto...

Are you a leader? In the age where many things that seems wrong has now become the order the day, it is good for the fact to be said. I Remember whilst growing up, the political system was in state of uncertainty and the picture painted to many about POWER was a person just waking up from nowhere and sitting up there and just making commands. The consequence of this kind of attribute has brought many unprecedented failure in the socio-ecomonic structure of the nature. Many of us grew up with that mentality of seeing power as the end of everything. You don't have to be the President to do the right thing. Leadership is not more about the position you occupy as much as it is in the things you do. It is pertinent to note that many people have done so well in their lives and we cannot refer to them as leaders in whatever form. Leadership involves people. And what do you do with the people? I found out that what makes a leader is actually Excellence, that sense of doing things better an...