Leading without Words

I was running a course last week on management skills. One of the topics we discuss is how to lead. We came up with many of the usual ideas – developing emotional intelligence, creating inspiring and relevant vision statements for your team and understanding motivating factors for your group. All good ideas. However I really liked a recent article in the Conversation Blog at Harvard Business Review called How to Lead without Saying a Word It goes some way in explaning the intangible presence all good leaders have.