Attended a leadership course over the last 2 days at Sentosa....heartening to know that there's some help for me in my new expanded job scope that I will be taking on for the near future.....
The course was a brief intro to the organisation for the selected group of 21 guys and girls. We had a crash course on leadership skills for a day before having a sort of "amazing race" for the 2nd day. Each of the 7 team members had a chance to be a leader to help the team to find clues... when my turn came as the leader, my team was faced with many clues (in fact the most we found in an area for that day). Everyone had mixed ideas on what should be the right answer. When faced with the choices, I said "I am the leader, I decide." In many ways, that short statement explained my leadership style I guess :)
I realised that I need a LOT of help to manage a team of 30 pax in my new job scope...so far throughout my working life, I have only had to deal with max 5-6 pax in my team (departments have always been lean for the companies I have worked for some reason :P) have bought a few management/leadership books & crossing fingers that my brain will be working from all the "dry" management mumbo jumbo LOL
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Tell me if any of them books are good cuz I am also at lost leading big teams of people. It's not easy that's for sure :o)
Actually got 2 books over the weekend....1 on doing performance appraisal and another on 360 degree leadership....I hate "dry" books so the books I got have stories in-between the concepts so that I can relate better :) The leadership book is for middle managers exerting leadership qualities....Popular sells it ard $26 [The 360 leader by John C Maxwell] Can bring it along when we next meet....:)
I got the 360 leader book last year but unfortunately, I think I did the online test and then...that's it. I think the BEST kind of books for me would have lots of pictures with very few words..like them LO books e.g. Shadows of the Neanderthal and Outlearning the Wolves by David Hutchens *laughs*
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