Conflict Resolution

Links for resolving conflicts.

Resolving Team Conflict

Conflicts are almost inevitable when you work with others. This handy article about resolving team conflicts gives a 3-step process on getting to a resolution. It also gives some hints and tips on preventing future conflicts.

On Mindtools.com.

How to Hold a Difficult Conversation

This article gives advice on having a difficult conversation. I believe situations like this will come up for every leader. The article is not very long but every word is meaningful. It can becom very useful.

On About.com.

Motivation

Links for motivating your team members.

10 Tips for Boosting Employee Morale

Some of these tips are maybe not directly useful in a voluntary organization, but most of them are just as important. These 10 tips are very general.

On Inc.com.

9 Things That Motivate Employees More Than Money

Nine good (and quite general) ideas on motivating employees.

On Inc.com.

Leadership and management

Links about leadership and management in general.

How to Change Your Management Style

This article can help you recognize what kind of a manager you are (autocratic, paternalistic, democratic, laissez-faire or servant leadership) and gives you tips how to change it.

On Inc.com.

10 Secrets of Successful Leaders

10 really good tips on becoming a successful leader.

On Entrepreneur.com

 

Communication

Links related to communication.

People Are Always Misinterpreting My Emails. What Am I Doing Wrong?

Some general advice on how to communicate via email.

On Entrepreneur.com

Don’t Send That Email. Pick up the Phone!

A blog text explaining why you should rather call than send an email.

On Blogs.hbr.org

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Meetings

Links for running effective meetings.

How to Run an Effective Meeting

Make every meeting matter or don’t meet at all. This article has some really good tips on making meetings effective.

On CBSNews.com

Running Effective Meetings

What makes meetings effective?

1. They achieve the meeting’s objective.
2. They take up a minimum amount of time.
3. They leave participants feeling that a sensible process has been followed.

This article explains how to achieve these things.

On Mindtools.com

Delegation

Links for delegation.

Delegation as a Leadership Style

This post has a couple of really good advice on how to delegate tasks with people. It focuses mainly on what to communicate to the person you are delegating the task.

On About.com.

Avoiding Micromanagement

Are you afraid that you might be micromanaging? Or are you micromanaged? This article explains what micromanagement is and gives some tips on getting rid of it.

On Mindtools.com.

Successful Delegation

This article explains pretty much everything you need to take into account when delegating. When to delegate? Who to delegate? How to delegate?

On Mindtools.com.

Team building

Links for team building.

Team building games

Many examples of team building games.

My favorite team building icebreaker

Explaining a good team building icebreaker called Ten Things in Common.

On About.com.

Twelve Tips for Team Building: How to Build Successful Work Teams

Twelve Cs for team building: clear expectations, context, commitment, competence, charter, control, collaboration, communication, creative innovation, consequences, coordination and cultural change. A good article that every leader ought to read.

On About.com.

Giving feedback

Links for giving feedback.

How to give feedback that works?

Five steps for giving feedback. What does good feedback look like?

On Forbes.com

Five steps for giving productive feedback

Sometimes feedback generates fear and anxiety, and hence put the receiver on defence. With these five tips you can give productive feedback what does what it’s inteded to do.

On Entrepreneur.com

Collections of articles

Article collections, databases and online magazines for leadership and management.

http://www.mindtools.com/

Mindtools.com is a website where you can find a toolkit full of different articles about leadership skills, team management, strategy tools, problem solving, decision making, project management, time management, stress management, communication skills, creativity tools, information skills, career skills etc.

Quite many of the tools are free to use.

http://www.strategy-business.com/

Strategy+business is an online managemen magazine. The articles cover a wide range of topics under strategy, marketing, operations, human capital, public presence, governance, and other domains.

Requires a free sign-up.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/

Entrepreneur is a magazine featuring many articles regarding business – including human resources, leadership and innovations. Their website is a great resource.

http://humanresources.about.com/

The Human Resources site on about.com has a vast collection of different articles and texts regarding HR, management, leadership etc. A great source of information.