Tag: leadership

The Global maritime Forum published an article based on the team diversity in organizations and the importance of it. Increasing the diversity of your team and providing your employees with a feeling of belonging can give your organization a competitive advantage over firms which overlook these values. 

Lloyd's List reported that an internal document of Cargill, a grains and agricultural trader, 'the Inclusive and Diverse Speaker Guidelines' commits the US’ largest privately-owned company to assemble panels and speaker line-ups that are gender diverse. 

Although in all kind of industries, loyalty and dedication from employees is required by leaders, they are said to rarely return their half of the equation, leaving employees feeling left behind and unsupported by ignoring their ideas or even belittling them in public. Here are the 4 types of “bad bosses” that make employees quit organizations.

SAFETY4SEA is pleased to announce that Mr. Mark O’Neil, Columbia Shipmanagement, has received the 2019 SMART4SEA Leadership Award, sponsored by Macgregor, at a prestigious award ceremony which successfully concluded on January the 29th at Yacht Club of Greece in Athens, the evening ahead of the 2019 SMART4SEA Conference.

China managed to keep its top position in the global shipbuilding industry in 2018. The previous year, Chinese companies constructed 43.2% of the new ships worldwide, in comparison to the 41.9% of 2017. Chinese shipbuilding companies are the base of the country's leading role in the sector, according to the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry.

In early December, Celebrity Cruises held a naming ceremony for its newest ship 'Celebrity Edge'. Celebrity Edge is the company's first new ship in six years and first new ship series in more than a decade. The ship is known for promoting women in multiple roles onboard, as well as for the way the company's CEO, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, is working to boost women leadership in shipping industry. 

It is a fact that in year 2018, seafarers’ non-technical skills are overlooked by recruitment departments, although digitalization and automation on board ships is creating demand of seafarers with skills that go beyond what machines are capable of and therefore are a crucial part of fostering a dynamic workforce. What differentiates the low performing from the high performing crews, though?

Lately, there have been many signs that leadership development is being flawed; an assumption rising from the fact that although people search what behaviors to change in order to become a better leader, they do not search how to change those behaviors. It is of essence therefore, to generate a discussion on leadership development focusing on the self-awareness part, the foundation to ensure good leadership.

The video is an animation film adapted from Captain David Marquet's talk on Greatness, based on his book 'Turn the Ship Around!'. Captain Marquet's speech underlines how important is for leaders onboard to 'create an environment' rather than giving orders.

Men vs women leaders; same responsibilities, different lead styles shaping how they run their teams. Are we talking about another gender battle? And who wins?