Do you see every interaction with team members as an opportunity to build confidence and develop potential? Coaching is imperfect and often messy, but also real, relevant, and replicable. Coaching continuously requires a lot of engagement. First, you have to...
How will you find the courage to keep your team focused on what is most important, including saying no to some of your own best ideas? If you’re a corporate adrenaline junkie, urgencies can be a tempting distraction. They can...
What’s preventing you from holding 1-on-1s with each of your team members? Nothing is more important than the people you lead. What they need from you is time. They need 1-on-1s so they can bring up issues hindering their progress,...
Do you need to be the smartest person in the room? In Liz Wiseman’s book, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, she invites leaders to assess several key questions: Are you the genius or the genius maker? Are...
Have you articulated an inspiring vision so your people choose to volunteer their best? Creating a vision means defining where your team is going and how they will get there. It’s not unusual for a leader, after a grand pronouncement,...
https://www.franklincoveysuriname.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Confessions-of-a-First-Level-Leader_-Were-Overwhelmed.mp4 Jimmy McDermott shares some advice for leaders of teams that are overwhelmed. Acknowledge there is too much work. Model good behavior. Kill all non-essential projects and activities. Communicate up about the overload. Aggressively filter new demands. When you fail...
Do you practice the principle that, with people, slow is fast and fast is slow? Dr. Covey liked to say, “With people, slow is fast and fast is slow.” Real relationships require us to slow down, even when everything around...
The Habit of personal responsibility. Habit 1: Be Proactive means more than taking initiative. It means we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. “Response-ability” is the ability to choose your...
Are the efforts of your team members moving your goals forward? How can you make it easier for them to do so? If a goal is elevated to WIG status, it’s vital to the team’s and the organization’s survival or...
Are your people as forthcoming with bad news and negative feedback as they are with good news and positive feedback? The higher up you get in an organization, the more insulated you are from the truth. The phrase “make it...
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