Get your brain in motion
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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The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The Leader adjusts the sails. John C. Maxwell
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The only training for leadership is leadership. Antony Jay
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.
Mindtools.com provides a simple test, made of 15 questions, to discover if you are good in motivating a teamwork and lead it to success. Performance goals, an efficient reward system and good motivational practices have to be combined in the best way to become a good manager.
Take the online test at:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_67.htm
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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