Get your brain in motion
In this interview by Meredith Bell, Denny Coats explains why it takes time to ingrain a leadership skill. Every action that we do comes from the brain. It is only by repetition that we can strenghten the neural pathways in our brain in order to make our behaviour pattern more natural.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill
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Stewart Friedman, in his book Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life argues that leadership in business cannot be merely about business anymore: it has to be about life as a whole.
The purpose of Total Leadership is to improve performance at work, at home, in the community, and for the private self (mind, body, spirit) by creating mutual value among these four life domains, to produce what he calls “four-way wins”.
Friedman explains how three simple principles can help to become a better leader and have a richer life.
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According to Roxi Bahar Hewertson, every choice you make in your daily worklife has a ripple effect throughout your team and organization. Here are four exercises that will make you a better leader, by ensuring that these effects have intended consequences. Such exercises concern the following issues:
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Being able to change is a crucial skill for any leader.
However, to communicate change to our colleagues or coworkers is not always easy. Scott E. Rupp provides us with 5 useful tactics that can be summarized as “inform, share, involve and be crystal clear”:
1. Provide regular, weekly e-mail blasts from leadership describing the changing events;
2. Let employees know when major decisions are expected to be made;
3. Encourage dialogue between managers and their teams;
4. Create a channel for two-way, open communication.
5. If there is no information available or something hasn’t been decided yet, let employees know that, but don’t keep them guessing.
Read the full article here
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Abigail Phillips in her article How to lead your team through change, published by Entrepreneur, suggests 8 steps to manage a change successfully leading your team:
1. Create a plan
2. Understand the end goal
3. Communicate clearly
4. Identify key players
5. Delegate tasks
6. Set realistic objectives
7. Manage expectations
8. Hold people accountable
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The right people in the right seats on the bus: this is the metaphor from the first Jim Collins best-seller ‘Good to Great’. In that book – published in 2001 – the author identifies what leaders need to do, in order to see their teams and organizations excel. And he uses the power of an image to communicate the following concept.
According to Collins, leaders who are able to transform their organizations begin not by setting a direction, but by getting the right people on the bus – and the wrong people off the bus.
Actually great leaders understand the following three simple truths:
1. If you begin with “who,” rather than “what”, you can more easily adapt to a changing world.
2. If you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away, because they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great.
3. If you have the wrong people, it doesn’t matter whether you discover the right direction; you still won’t have a great company.
Assembling the team is the first crucial point. Then a leader has to develop a vision (the direction of the bus), to remove obstacles to high performance (that is, maybe people are not exactly in the right seats and need to be assigned to the right role) and to help people with diverse talents and interests building trust in each other.
It is an hard work, but leaders need it to accomplish objectives with the right people.
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Becoming an effective leader is not a one-time thing. It takes time to learn and practice leadership skills until they become a part of us.
Taking time to analyze the habits of effective leaders is an important exercise allowing us to recognize both the good and the bad characteristics, in order to shape our leadership style.
Below are just five habits we can emulate:
1. Taking calculated risks;
2. Fostering a positive work culture;
3. Encouraging innovation;
4. Leading by example;
5. Remaining graceful under pressure.
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There is a vast literature on successful leadership and the right skills to be a leader, but what makes a poor leader?
In an article by Bernard Marr on the World Economic Forum Blog, the author has identified the eight signs a person might not be ready for a leadership position:
Read the full article here.
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John Rampton, from Inc.com, lists 10 leadership techniques that definitely don’t work:
1. Lack of Vision
2. Failure to Communicate
3. Intimidation
4. Micromanagement
5. “No Tolerance Policy”
6. Being a Know-It-All
7. Offering Incentives
8. Withholding Helpful Information
9. Taking Credit for Others’ Work
10. Management by Walking Around the Office
The more you learn from your mistakes and improve, the more you truly will become a leader.
For more: 10 Leadership Techniques That Do Not Work
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