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3 Ways to Actually Help Your Team (and Yourself!)

David M. Dye is President of Trailblaze, Inc and shares twenty years experience teaching, coaching, leading, and managing.

In his article he explains how a leader can be helpful to his team without solving problems for them. He provides 3 important steps:

1) Remove obstacles
2) Get them the resources they need
3) Help them think

The team members will come up with their own solution.

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Leading by example

Leaders’  personal attitudes and actions influence people  around them. They need to be credible with their direct reports. Why should anyone follow an instruction that the instructor is not following himself?

Peter Thatcher’s ‘Leading by example’ , you can download for free at Bookboon.com, provides some suggestions about how to be a good leader behaving with integrity and respect.

Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for professionals.

Avoid common leadership and management mistakes

Mind Tools lists 10 of the most common leadership and management errors.

1. Lack of Feedback
2. Not Making Time for Your Team
3. Being Too “Hands-Off”
4. Being Too Friendly
5. Failing to Define Goals
6. Misunderstanding Motivation
7. Hurrying Recruitment
8. Not “Walking the Talk”
9. Not Delegating
10. Misunderstanding Your Role

If you want to know more on what you can do to avoid them read the full article.

 

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