Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

One of the things that leaders (every leader) must learn in the course of their leadership is the need to lead with caution. Every leader must learn how to lead with caution. Now, to lead with caution does not actually connote that the leader should be afraid. Leading with caution does not equate being afraid in leadership. In actual sense, to lead with caution is to lead with every sense of duty and carefulness in order to bring about the gains of that leadership. So, to lead with caution does not mean that you are afraid to lead as the…

In this week’s edition of Leaderview, I want to share with us something that I believe is going to help us in our leadership and something that I believe is one of the cores of our leadership. I want to talk about something that is titled Courageous Leadership. And I want to read a story to us in the Bible, from the book of Judges, chapter four, that story is going to form the bedrock of what we’re going to be talking to ourselves on courageous leadership. The story is about a leader of Israel, who happens to be a…

One of the essential elements of leadership is an understanding of how to safeguard the gains of leadership. Every leader must be able to understand the gains of his or her leadership, and also must be able to properly safeguard it. In Matthew 5:17 (MSG), the Bible showed us something that Jesus said. It says: “Don’t suppose for a minute that I have come to demolish the Scriptures—either God’s Law or the Prophets. I’m not here to demolish but to complete. I am going to put it all together, pull it all together in a vast panorama (view, outlook)” In…

On today’s Leaderview, I want to share with us on something that has been titled: Leadership Ethos and Workplace Efficiency. Now, you may be asking yourself a number of questions as a leader talking about the area of productivity and efficiency in your leadership. Peradventure as a leader, you have been thinking on how to improve your team’s efficiency or how to get them to deliver at their maximum level of efficiency. Now, what we want to share with ourselves today is going to give us some idea, and a few things that we can do in order to get…

I want to share something with us that I believe is important in our leadership endeavors. Now, we are looking at: The Demands of Productive Leadership and I believe that what we are going to be sharing with ourselves today is going to be one of the things that we set our leadership productivity on a pedestal that will give you and I, you know, some level of joy and happiness in our leadership. Now, let us begin by looking at what effective leadership is. One of the hallmarks of effective leadership, actually, is productivity. I believe over time, we’ve…

Spontaneous leadership is about responding to problems in quick time with a plan of action. There is no leadership problem, no matter how big or small, that does not have a response approach. When you understand the response approach, then you will tackle the problem headlong. Most times, when problems degenerate into something that is beyond control, the reason is because leadership have failed to respond swiftly. One of the many skills a leader is expected to have amongst other things, is the ability to act spontaneously or act swiftly. Leaders are expected to be able to think through a…

Methodical leadership approach has to do with a structured, organized and systematic way of leadership that gives little or no room for laxity or slackness. Once a methodical leader has his goal and objectives put forward, every zeal and diligence require towards executing that goal is released. In methodical leadership, there is little or no room whatsoever for failure, and this is usually the motivating factor of methodical leadership. No leader plans to fail. And because a methodical leader does not envisage failure, there are four key things that usually characterize methodical leadership approach.Listen to Podcast: Methodical Leadership ApproachThe first…

In this article, I want to share with us on Mindset and Transformational Leadership. We want to look at how our mindset as leaders go a long way to shape and help us to overcome every obstacle and every challenge that we may be facing in our leadership as we journey along in this assignment of leadership. Now, the very goal of transformational leadership actually, is rooted in the leader inspiring and motivating his team to go all out in achieving the impossible.Listen to Podcast: Mindset and Transformational LeadershipNow when it comes to achieving a seemingly impossible task, or whether…

I want to share with us quickly on something that I titled The Dynamic Nature of Leadership. We want to look at the changing nature of leadership and how you and I as leaders can remain effective in our leadership as these changes take place in leadership. Now, the very first understanding that every leader must have about leadership is that leadership is dynamic. You must never forget as a leader that leadership is dynamic. Leadership is not static, there is nowhere in the world where leadership remains the same for a very long time. Leadership is not static, leadership…

There are two powerful keywords in this title. Leadership and Productivity. These two keywords are important when it comes to growth and understanding the dynamics that propels growth within an organization. How does leadership affect productivity? How does leadership bring out the best in the organization and in the way and manner the organization is run? How does leadership bring out the best in the employees or in the team? These are a few things we want to consider in this podcast.Listen to Podcast: The Correlate of Leadership and ProductivityHow Does Leadership Affect Productivity?Leadership impacts organizational growth and productivity in…