Leadership Forum

This Leadership Forum deals with all the different aspects of being a leader. Therefore this is a unique platform to managers and executives who face so many different challenges - implementing strategic initiatives, strengthening relationships with key constituencies and stakeholders, meeting the demands of dynamic and changing markets, while still delivering ever higher results. Everybody who is a leader is welcome to discuss experiences in our forums. The exchange of experiences, best practices and ideas allows us all to gain knowledge and improve our leadership performance. This group is made up of all kind of different managers, directors, Vice Presidents and CxOs.

If you are interested in one of our other groups to develop your expertise, please click on the links below:
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www.xing.com/net/b2bsalesforum
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Forum themes:
1. Leadership General – All topics that did not fit in one of the other categories
2. Leadership Methods - This a collection of some good existing leadership methods / techniques and approaches
3. Best practice - Share your experience and enrich the group with different leadership best practice approaches
4. Productivity /Efficiency /Performance - Goal setting, efficient use of business units, personal productivity, accelerators, Models, Books
5. Employee Loyalty - It is a known fact that it is 6-9 times harder to get a new employee and get him into the job instead of keeping an existing good employee. So let’s talk about how to keep your employees interested
6. Leadership Psychology - All about the psychological aspects in Leadership – from the identification to the understanding of your employees or teams’ psychological needs and wants, to how you effectively deal with difficult individuals, Handle conflicts in a calm and constructive way, Deal forcefully but diplomatically with difficult people, conflict management skills, Cope with road blocks and other challenges
7. Mentoring - Strengthen your leader attitude and competencies, Influence and motivate people to follow your visions and tactics, understand psychological factors, Build a strong, flexible and highly effective team, Incorporate coaching in leadership style, Intensify commitment to personal and professional goals, Accomplish team goals through coaching
8. Relationship / Networking - Stimulate cooperation across the organization, Create trustful relationships, Ways of active Networking, Socializing techniques, manners
9. Communication - Value Based C., Rhetoric Skills, sensible communication topics, Tops/Flops of leader communication, Stakeholder Co., Read and manage body language, Develop flexibility in your communication style, active listening, Communicating with team members and executives
10. Emotional Intelligence in Leadership - Useful PD Issues, self-regulation, personality and leadership profil, manage your thoughts, emotions, and behavior
11. Self / Public Image - Rise from 'management' to 'leadership', build a charismatic image, Encourage confidence and trust,
12. Personal Balance / Harmony - Maintain your self-control, Manage your Emotions, Emotional intelligence, self-regulation, Balance between private and Business
13. Job Box - Do you have some valuable job offers? Or you are looking for some qualified Leadership professionals? Or could you recommend a Headhunter? Feel free to post here….
14. Search/Find - Invite - Are you looking for someone/something or want to invite somebody to something? Feel free to post here….
15. Events - Here we will post/list, the different official Leadership Forum events......
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To help keep this group international, the main language is English. Please feel free to write in your own language if you cannot write in English, remembering that only people who understand your language will be able to respond.

Thanks & Best Regards
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Mark von Rosing