Leadership

Learn about various topics related to becoming a great leader

Dec 21, 2016

Paths of Leadership

Paths of Leadership

From my experience, you get two main categories into which leaders fall into, the results driven and the "bear huggers". I'm sure that you have come across both types

Nov 30, 2016

No Bad Teams, Just Bad Leaders

No Bad Teams, Just Bad Leaders

I have recently been thinking about some teams that were not performing well. In my opinion, they were underperforming, not because they are incompetent, but because the leadership is poor. Thinking about it,

Nov 9, 2016

Show Me the Facts

Show Me the Facts

I recently took over the team lead position at my current project, as the existing person was being rotated to another project. In terms of the client, the interaction with them has never

Sep 22, 2016

Mentoring

Mentoring

Part of any leaders duties should be the ability to mentor people, to help them grow, understand and guide them in the right direction. Until recently, my mentoring solely consisted of helping people

Jun 1, 2016

Maker Mode, Manager Mode

Maker Mode, Manager Mode

Most team leads come from a technical background where they focus on completing tasks at hand. In doing this, we often neglect any sort of managerial tasks that may come up, which can

Mar 9, 2016

Lessons Learnt So Far...

Lessons Learnt So Far...

It's been a few months since I have taken on the challenge of being a team lead for one of the projects at my current client. I have learnt a lot

Oct 14, 2015

What Leaders Hate

What Leaders Hate

Every person has certain things that they really dislike, but for leaders this can be more pronounced as they are usually in constant contact with people. As you will see most things on

Oct 7, 2015

Mistakes Leaders Make

Mistakes Leaders Make

None of us are perfect and from time to time we all make some sort of mistake. For new leaders, this path can seem quite daunting but the beauty in making mistakes is

Aug 12, 2015

Annoying Leaders

Annoying Leaders

We have all been in the situation where we have one of those annoying leaders or managers constantly breathing down our backs. When I first started software development, I remember there being a

Aug 5, 2015

Leadership Styles

Leadership Styles

I have mentioned many times before that the role of a true leader is to assist the people that you are leading so that they can achieve their true potential. As a leader,