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Leadership training and coaching is big business. This business is nearly always based on the myth that leadership can be identified as a "characteristic" or "quality" of the leader. Those who are said to have such qualities are trustworthy, emotionally intelligent, stable people with considerable foresight. Such commentators seem to describe what ought to be not what actually exists in the 'real world'. Look at the 4 myths of leadership and you will never look at leaders to understand leadership ever again - you will look elsewhere.

Many businesses start off as creative and innovative but soon fall into some, or all, of the 10 most common traps that lead to stagnation and the lack of growth.Use our Innovation Pathway Audit to identify where your company is when it comes to the barriers and enablers for innovation and improvement.

10 steps to improve recruitment and selection

1.     Check that the vacant post is still essential. Do you really need this post?

2.     Make sure the post is aligned to the business strategy. Check that your strategy is not about to change.

Pathway Audits are diagnostics which cover key business areas where best practice should be implemented and are available at www.business-enlightenment.com  They can help your organization focus on its strengths and address its challenges taking advantage of knowledge and experience of experts in specific fields from Innovation and Marketing through to Lean.

Pathway Audits™ are a fantastic new way to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of any business or organisation. They help you plan how it will cope with major business issues as each Pathway Audit™ looks in detail at strategy, organisation and process.

The Power of Pathway Audits™

Pathway Audits™ are highly focused anonymous on-line questionnaires designed by experts in their field. They are designed to reveal the ‘hidden collective wisdom’ of your management team.

Leadership Development

Say ‘leadership development’ to a business executive and you will end up with a multitude of different views to what “leadership” is.

Leadership a Social Property

Leadership is not, and never has been, a ‘quality’ of the leader. Leadership is a social situation where team members, (or even voters) “willingly and enthusiastically accept the authority” of their manager.

There are many articles on ‘information overload’ experienced by leaders and managers. Yet the answer is not necessarily ‘less information’, as important strategic and operational business decisions need good quality relevant data to be effective.

When selection interviewing the interviewer is trying to predict a candidate’s behaviour in a specific job role. The interviewer needs to know, therefore, two important things