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		<title>How to: Lead Your Team like a Pro</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team leader or team lead is person who gives guidance, instruction, direction, leadership to a group of individuals for obtaining result in aligned group. A team leader gives report to a project manager. A good team leader happened to caring and motivator for its entire team. Below is provided some excellent tips to become [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A team leader or team lead is person who gives guidance, instruction, direction, leadership to a group of individuals for obtaining result in aligned group. A team leader gives report to a project manager. A good team leader happened to caring and motivator for its entire team. Below is provided some excellent tips to become an effective team leader.</p>
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<li><strong>Remain Empowering as Well Flexible Too</strong>:  Sometimes while for getting a task accomplished, you need to become a bit stern and strict and empower  team member allowing them to make decisions, support training and make information available.  Meanwhile, you also need to be flexible as to share responsibility for team development and leadership.</li>
<li><strong>You should be self sufficient to raise yourself</strong>: You should communicate regular with team as to build relationships and having feedback. As great team leaders seek out and respond to the opinions and advice of their team members.</li>
<li><strong>Provide recognition and reward to your team</strong>: Every individual and team member looks for public appreciation for his achievements. So you being as a team leader should keep on rewarding a member that needs the appreciation most. This would help your team to perform in right and appropriate manner.</li>
<li><strong>You should be kind as well as tough at the same time</strong>: Motivate your team through both kindness and through constructive feedback. You will need to challenge your team to improve their performance, but you also need to strive for good relationships with your team. Your team should be able to trust you and admire you as a person, not simply fear your discipline.</li>
<li><strong>You should be a morale booster for team</strong>:  you should be morale booster for your team instead of hard headed. You ought to be caring and supportive if you need to uplift sprit of your team. Not only this, you should also be a person of high aspirations as your team expects from you to share your dream, vision and passions.</li>
<li><strong>Should have an aptitude for people</strong>: As for handling task and work from your team you should be an exceptional leader and be highly interested in individuals and teams and be ready to develop relationships with people at all level and every situation. As better you are aware of your team as better you would be able to draw results from them.</li>
<li><strong>Should have great listening skills</strong>: A leader should have great listening skills as you should able to understand what your team is expecting from you. As better you would be able to hear as better it would for you to take work from your team. With attentive listening like good eye contact, asking open –ended questions and paraphrasing suggestions makes you a good team leader.</li>
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		<title>7 Free Open Courseware Classes to Learn About Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leadership as on a broader perspective is known as process of social influence in which a person can have aid and support from others for achieving a common task. It is one of the most relevant aspects in organizational context. However, in whole leadership can be defined varyingly as depending upon situation. Below is provided [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leadership as on a broader perspective is known as process of social influence in which a person can have aid and support from others for achieving a common task. It is one of the most relevant aspects in organizational context. However, in whole leadership can be defined varyingly as depending upon situation. Below is provided an interesting list for open course wares.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.athabascau.ca/html/syllabi/govn/govn400.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Governance and Leadership</strong></a>: This courseware is about the Governance and leadership with respect of shaping leadership in the public, voluntary and private sectors and differences for the interaction among the three sectors on public policy issues. The courseware is based upon a numbers of themes and like different types of leadership and the challenges of leadership, the role of sector specific paradigms into leadership in shaping leaders.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Women of Past and Present</strong></a>:  This site is provided with biographies of women that contributed to human civilization in many a number of ways and are from different areas. These women are writer, educator, scientists, and heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers and others. Some of them were living hundreds of years ago and other is yet alive.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/enin.html" target="_blank"><strong>Feminist Theory</strong></a>: The website provides research materials and information for students having scholarly interest in women conditions and struggle around the globe. The site is developed with objective to encourage and improve over research over feminist theory and to improve over dialogue among man and women from different countries.</li>
<li><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-978Spring-2007/CourseHome/index.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Leadership Tools and Team</strong></a>: In this class you will be creating a leadership development tool for students like yourselves in the leadership program at Sloan. This tool might be a coaching guide for second-year pilots, a leadership workbook for MBA students to use during their summer employment, a leadership assessment for club presidents or a workshop on networking. You will be free to choose the tool that you want to develop, but by the end of the class there must be a product that can be used at Sloan. In addition, the tools must link in some way to the leadership model used at Sloan.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.academicleadership.org/" target="_blank"><strong>The Online Journal of Academic Leadership</strong></a>: This Journal of academic leadership is aimed towards   academic world that progresses society at large with its impact and sphere. It provides a good collection of articles and essays focusing over major issues related to leadership. The journal is edited by blind review process that is utilized in national and international editorial boards and peer reviews.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.advancingwomen.com/awl/awl.html" target="_blank"><strong>Women in Leadership</strong></a>: This is one of its first online professional journals for women in leadership. The journal publishes manuscripts reporting, synthesizing, reviewing and analyzing scholarly inquiry focusing over women issues. These manuscripts are written by authors from all professional fields on women leadership issue.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ucalgary.ca/iejll/" target="_blank"><strong>The International Electronic Journal for Leadership</strong></a>: This particular general is for promoting the study and substantive leadership issues of major concern in educational communities. Articles and features here are provided prominently with a focus over significant impact of education in schools. The Journal in its print form is imprinted by University of Calgary Press and is sponsored by Centre for Leadership in Learning and the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary.</li>
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		<title>Online Masters in Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The online Masters in Leadership course integrates several disciplines, all of which have been tailored with desirable concepts and tools all geared towards meeting the rising market demands. Online Masters courses in leadership are widely preferred for their convenience and the fact that they offer learners an array of options all available online for self [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The online Masters in Leadership course integrates several disciplines, all of which have been tailored with desirable concepts and tools all geared towards meeting the rising market demands. Online Masters courses in leadership are widely preferred for their convenience and the fact that they offer learners an array of options all available online for self improvement. Depending on area of specialization, learners can access relevant instructional materials all of which have been designed to promote leadership development. All they need is to browse and search for information that is relevant to their respective areas of specialization.</p>
<p>Some of the leadership courses available on the internet include Masters of Arts in Educational leadership which leaves learners with a wider scope that enables them to cope with the emerging challenges in their respective schools.  Masters in Ministerial leadership on the other hand targets the clergy who are able to undertake their seminary classes anywhere in the world. Also those willing to undertake a Masters of Arts degree in leadership can do so with ease. The online program has been designed to allow learners to integrate their goals in their respective disciplines.</p>
<p>The online Masters in leadership course provides graduates with ample skills to deal with conflicts and covers interpersonal communication and research strategies among others. Most online curricula have been designed to take a shorter period and reflect the normal courses in both content and quality. Most people in managerial positions are able to attain both considerable and competitive advantage in their chosen field of study through flexible schedules.</p>
<p>The online masters in leadership course captures the emerging trends in the global market and therefore graduates can compete effectively anywhere in the world. Most curricula have been revised to meet international requirements to attract a larger clientele. This is primarily because the world is increasingly becoming a village through advances in technology and therefore the need to embrace modern techniques in leadership and remain relevant in the global market.</p>
<p>Online Masters in leadership is a technologically advanced program and instructors have been left with a wide range of options which allows them to use multimedia learning aids and link their students with relevant and resourceful websites. However, lack of direct interactions with the instructor can sometimes have far reaching implications on the students whose skills in leadership need to address both practical and theoretical aspects to be able to develop an all rounded person.</p>
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