Top Ten Leadership tips
I have had the great fortune of working with and for some great leaders in my military and working life. Sadly though these kind of people are not in great abundance in today's business and political circles.
Working with many businesses the subject of being a leader not a manager often comes up. To help those I have coached I put together my top ten tips to be a more effective leader. Some of it comes from experience, some I have been taught and some I have seen in operation. If it is of a help to you, great, if not that is ok too, just remember everyone in a organisation can be a leader.
- Manage energy: Keep your head up, protect your personal battery, look after your body. You start each day refreshed and refuelled, avoid doing things and dealing with people who drain your energy.
- Accept change as the norm: Things will change and they need to. Whatever happens, learn from it, keep moving forward, embrace it and don't be scared. The more you step out of your comfort zone the more you will learn.
- Have a plan: The bigger the picture the better. People who buy into you and your vision will achieve more.
- Praise continually: Praise often, reward occasionally. Gesture rather than a number. It is not hard to say thank you, acknowledge and encourage even in failure. IF your people stop failing your business stops advancing.
- Live the culture: The leader personifies the culture they want to create. Create belief, stay calm no matter what is happening around you.
- Don’t stack the detail: Stay in the context always want to know WHY. If you keep applying a sticking plaster to a problem it will only re occur. Solve the reason Why the problem occurs.
- Empower others: Trust works two ways, if you do not trust others why should they trust you
- Communicate well: listen more than speak.
- Learn and educate: You're continually learning and continually teaching
- Take responsibility: Admit mistakes or shortcomings, be ok not to have all the answers. Show humility.
Retired
5 年How many of there traits do you recognise in our current leaders in the UK and USA? Thankfully successful business people run businesses better than politicians
Retired
5 年Thanks for all of the nice comments and likes it has encouraged me to write more. Currently working on one that talks about having the confidence to lead, how to shut off that commentary in your head that gets in the way of making stuff happen.
Principal and Managing Director London Project Management
5 年Great post Richard. Thanks for sharing this. Humility and praise for others so often absent.
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5 年Spot on.
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5 年All good and fundamental and should be a given.?In civilian life / business (and also to often in the senior officer upward lookers)?too often absent and or superficial; well hidden behind self and greed. Obsession with short term false comfort and "get away with it" culture.??