Today’s Question: “What are you doing to ensure you continue to grow and develop as a leader?” Have you ever taken music lessons as a kid or as an adult? Did you only take one lesson? Were you so great that you never needed another one? In most cases the answer is no. You need many more lessons and lots of practice to get really good. Leadership is the same way. You don’t just magically know everything because someone gave…
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Leaders have a lot of expectations placed upon them when they take the role. They have a team to develop, projects to deliver, strategies to define and keeping their stakeholders happy. What about the other expectations that are not always so obvious? Yesterday’s post focused on some of these expectations in terms of body language and behavior that leaders need to focus on. Another unwritten expectation is that you should help, support and guide others. How can you share what…
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Today’s Question: What is a personal brand and do I need one? I first heard of a personal brand years ago when someone came to speak at a personal development session that I attended. I wasn’t sure what it was and didn’t know if it was important for me to have one. Generally brands are thought of in terms of a company or product. Brands will leverage a commercial jingle, symbols or product design to set themselves apart from…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: Develop your leadership point of view, building relationships with your team, increasing trust, can you see things differently, dealing with a micromanager, strengths of a team, succession planning Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 7 Questions to Help You Develop Your Leadership Point of View by Paul Sohn. http://paulsohn.org/7-questions-to-help-you-develop-your-leadership-point-of-view/ Do you have a defined leadership view to share with your team? If not, these questions can…
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One of the first things that I did with my teams was to look at the strengths of each of the team members. Having them go through the Strengths 2.0 assessment from the Gallup Organization is a great way to capture their top 5 strengths. (*Here is my Amazon affiliate link to the book if you are interested in taking the test yourself or having your team take it – http://amzn.to/2kSshsB) For those who have never done this assessment before,…
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Have you thought about who will succeed you in your current role? If you haven’t considered this before it may feel like you are working yourself out of a job. That is exactly what you are doing. For executive leaders with key roles in an organization this is especially important. In many cases, this has been carefully planned and there are multiple people identified as the successors to key positions. You may have heard this referred to as “the bench.” Just…
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Today’s Question: How do I deal with my new manager who micromanages everything that I am doing? We have all dealt with a manager who has micromanaged us to some extent. There are usually a few reasons why this occurs. The manager may be new to the team, hasn’t managed a team before, doesn’t trust the team yet or is a bit of a control freak. Unfortunately this causes issues with morale and employee engagement. It also creates so…
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Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! Each week I will share some great articles that I have found as well as the links to my own Creating Leadership Connections blog for the week. This week’s summary includes: Get out of your office and connect with your team, be a leader who coaches, The 3 C’s of good leadership for teams, 10 ways to transform a team, setting a vision, being honest with feedback, show your team that you…
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Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! Each week I will share some great articles that I have found as well as the links to my own Creating Leadership Connections blog for the week. This week’s summary includes: How smart managers motivate teams, be strategic with your career, how to keep learning, remote leadership, comparisons and celebrating accomplishments Feel free to send me or comment with any articles that you have found as well! They may show up in the…
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Comparing ourselves to others is something that everyone has done. We all grew up being compared to each other in school, in sports and at home. Statistics were tracked about grades, sports achievements and you may have felt like your parents were keeping track of what you had done vs your siblings. Fast forward to becoming an adult and the comparison continues. People are rated in companies on their performance and potential. Employees are rated in comparison to their peers? …
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