4 Ways to Gain Trust Quickly With Your Followers
Gaining trust is a critical component of leadership. However, many leaders overlook the importance of this reality as they roll up their sleeves and get to work. They get so focused on the tasks at hand that they miss out on the “low hanging fruit” that can increase and enhance their influence. But when you […]
Leaders Must Keep the Mission In Front of Their Followers
“Mission drift” is a critical problem in many organizations. Leaders often spend countless hours crafting the perfect mission statement only to paint it on the wall only to have it forgotten about. If you desire to have an inspired, focused team, you must keep the mission in front of your followers at all times. The […]
Valued People Become More Valuable
In the busyness of daily responsibilities, it’s easy to overlook the very people whom you’re called to lead and care for. However, when this happens, you begin to lose your team. They begin to disengage and mentally check out. They begin to feel frustrated and devalued. They begin to underperform rather than going the extra […]
Team Success Doesn’t End With You, But It Starts With You
Many leaders want their teams to perform better, but forget to look in the mirror at their own performance. Self-leadership is the first, and most important, step to developing a world-class team. While team success doesn’t end with you, it does start with you. Followers do what they see their leaders doing. If you are […]
To Keep Leading You Must Keep Growing
Many leaders reach a certain point in their careers where they choose to stop learning and growing. When this happens, their influence begins to diminish. I once had a supervisor tell me to stop reading so much because it was causing me frustration. I couldn’t believe my ears. I can’t imagine the look I had […]
Leaders Need Community to Perform at Their Best
It’s been said that it’s lonely at the top. While this sentiment is often true for many leaders, John Maxwell states in his book Leadership Gold that “If it’s lonely at the top, you’re not doing something right.” Why does he say that? Because loneliness is mostly a choice we make. Yes, it’s wise to […]
The Importance of Having a Mentor
Leadership is both extremely challenging and rewarding. In today’s environment, things are moving and morphing at unprecedented rates. Leading can be exhausting and knowing where or how to focus can be confusing. One of the ways to address this reality is by seeking out a trusted mentor who’s been where you are and can speak […]
The Power of Adding One New Skill
It’s been said that “leaders are readers,” but one of the shortfalls I often see is that personal growth gets squeezed out by busyness for most leaders. Does that happen to you? I also think that the heart of that statement is still true, but the ways in which leaders access personal growth resources today […]
4 Characteristics of Bounceback Leaders
To say 2020 was a challenging year is a major understatement! However, when you go through a difficult year (or season), you have the opportunity to come back stronger than before. As the old adage goes, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Unfortunately, 2020 was a killer of a year, literally and figuratively. People, […]
4 Key Actions to Make the Most of Your Valuable Time
I often hear leaders say that their time is not their own. While this is true in many ways due to being available to your followers, you still must be very mindful of how you utilize your time each day. You must be strategic in setting boundaries so you train your followers how to treat […]