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Kristine PruettNice list of things to try to improve your leadership skills.
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Graham WegnerA summary that could be useful as a discussion article for our inquiry unit on "Who Gets To Be Leader?"
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- Goals. Make it simple and easy for your team to understand the mission and to understand their part in achieving it.
- Concise Goals. Keep them simple and easy to understand.
- Focus your team on as few goals as possible.
- Communicate the team's goals Often and through Various Means (team meetings, individual meetings, emails, posters, slogans). And then do it some more.
- Track progress on goals.
- Involve team players in tracking the goals so that they own the results.
- Concise Goals. Keep them simple and easy to understand.
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- . Motivating People. What you reward gets done. It's that simple.
- Incent team players to do the tasks that are most critical for reaching the team's goals.
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Thank, and Recognize big and small contributions by individuals. Do this often and then do it some more.
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Set High Expectations. People will live UP to or DOWN to the expectations you set.
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- Empower people by delegating responsibility.
- Celebrate team accomplishments often.
- Empower people by delegating responsibility.
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Encourage Fun. Make the work place a fun place to be. Yes, work needs to get done but short fun breaks can make all the difference in the culture of your team.
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Model the Way by participating in the team's tasks as much as your position allows.
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Always be learning and keep on top of the latest skills, technology, and knowledge in your field.
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- Inspire through a combination of
- Unwavering Positive Future Vision
- Commitment to Improve things along the way that will make that positive vision a reality.
- Unwavering Positive Future Vision
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Establish Routines. Do this for the team and also work with each individual to come up with their own high productivity routines. These are routines that dictate what work is done when.
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Establish Processes for all the tasks that are done repeatedly. It takes time to set up at first, but after that it will pay off in saved time and less errors. Processes describe how work is done and might involve systems for doing the work.
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Task Assignment. As much as possible, assign tasks according to the strengths of each teammate.
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Take Risks. Don't be afraid of failure. No one ever reaches great heights without a few failures.
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Learn. Learn as a team from failures. "How can we improve it the next time?"
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Encourage team members to take smart risks too by making it safe to fail.
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Promote your team members. Make sure others outside your team know about the individual team members' successes
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Don't worry. If your team is great there will be plenty of others who will want to join!
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Promote your team.
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Ethan GardnerYou don't have to be in a position of authority to be a leader. Conversely, just because you have authority doesn't mean that people will follow you. You must be a leader to get others to follow you.
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courtenaybirdThere are many books on leadership. They can have lots of great examples and in-depth explanations, but sometimes you just need something simple to help you focus on the essentials.
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David WayneDumb Little Man shares ideas to make the everyday person more productive in life. Expect to read tips on finance, saving money, business, and some DIY for the house.
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