Leadership: Explained

About Thomas

Thomas Williams has more than 20 years of experience as a leadership practitioner and theorist.

Now a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserves, Thomas teaches Leadership, Planning and History with the Army’s Command and General Staff College, and is on the adjunct faculty at Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, MA where he has taught Management Fundamentals, Managerial Communications, Business Law, and Human Resources.

Thomas' leadership experience includes commanding a Battalion of 600 Soldiers during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In his military career, he has also commanded an Armor Company and served as a Tank Platoon Leader.

He is a graduate of the United States Army War College where he earned a Master of Strategic Studies degree.

The cost of managing vs. leading? 

Business leaders know that employee turnover is costly -- as much as 200 percent higher than holding onto your existing talent.  Well led employees tend to stay longer and work harder.  And, productivity falls off by as much as 50 percent when employees aren't well led. 

For Non-Profits, boards and donors support organizations that are well led -- organizations with vision and purpose. 

For education and municipal leaders, the fine art of being a community leader doesn't come automatically with election victory or appointment. Improving your leadership competencies will prove valuable as you increasingly have to work in an inter-agency environment. 

Police, Fire and EMS leaders can also benefit directly by studying the direct actions of leaders in crisis, and how they planned, acted, assessed, and improved their organizations.

 

 

 

Did You Know?

When asked, 88 percent of employees selected honesty as the most important leadership trait.

Only 5 percent of stakeholders understand their organization’s strategy.  Do you sometimes feel like you are herding “random acts of improvement?”

Only 40 percent of organizations link their strategic priorites to their budgets.

Productivity improves by as much as 50 percent when people believe they are well led.