Leadership
Nearly of of us in our work life answer to someone, and if you are anything like me you probably question the competence of the person who is your boss or Manager. Rather than just complain about him or her there are things that you can do. But, before you do anything, wander over to to the Leadership501 Blog and read up on their leadership resources. You might just get some sort of insight into why your boss thinks the way he does, but it is more likely that you will quickly come to realise that his or her leadership skills are just not up to scratch! You would have to be one of the lucky ones if this is not the case.
The Leadership501 site is part of the 501 network, of which we will look more closely at over upcoming days. This site promises info and help for people to become more efficient in a leadership position. A look at the topics and the count of articles in each gives an indication that the topics cover a fairly broad range of subjects from education, leadership motivation, resources and teamwork to mention a few.
I took a quick look at the latest article to be posted on the front page which is titled Functional Leadership Model. I really had no idea what a Functional leadership Model is but the article was easy to read and clearly explained what it is all about. Onto the 2nd article. Once again, the article was fairly easy to read and presented what I thought to be pretty good info. The 2 articles seem to be a reasonable balance of quality and provide a reasonable degree of information on their topic.
So, with these article seeming pretty good, I randomly selected another article from the middle of the last viewed list. The chosen article happened to be Management Systems. After reading the first 2 articles I was full of hope and anticipation about this one. It, like the other articles was well written, stayed on topic, but unlike the other articles had very little actual substance and information. I got to the end and couldn’t find the page 2 button that I was expecting. Well, I understand a little about the subject and that is possibly why it didn’t meet my expectations.
With 2 out of the 3 articles I read, this site looks like it would be useful for someone with little to no management skills or training and possibly an OK resource for people with experience and wanting to brush up a little on current infor and trends. Have a read for yourself and you decide.
Visit www.leadership501.com
