Identifying leadership potential in others is part of your job as a leader. There’s an old saying if you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. Hopefully, you have been told that for you to move to other opportunities; Find your replacement. How do you find your replacement? Here …
We’ve all heard the saying a failure to plan on your part does not create an emergency on my part. Isn’t that what often leads to stress? The actions of others lead to a compressed lead time for some deliverables you have to deal with. Great project plans help eliminate the situation, but sometimes you …
When you lead people, there a million opportunities to get distracted. Phone calls, responding to e-mail. Reading reports or deliverables from your employees. People asking questions or complaining to you. These tasks take a toll on staying focused on your work. Tip 1- Stay out of e-mail jail A natural tendency is to respond to …
The internet has changed how we receive and consume information. As a leader, how many e-mails do you receive a day? How much information do you receive daily? Every minute of the day 47 million videos are being viewed on YouTube. There are 480,000 tweets and 4.2 million google searches being conducted every minute. Finally, …
These are unprecedented times. My guess is many of your employees are working from home full time or at least part of the time. As a manager, the temptation might be to check in with your employees to make sure they are getting their tasks accomplished. Doing this too often, offering constant feedback, or stepping …
I get asked by potential leaders, “How can I be more influential?” They want to increase their influence, become the go-to person so they can learn the skills for increased leadership roles. To move to the next level, you must think and act differently. Here are four tips on how to be more influential in …
There will be times in your leadership career when you have to deal with frustrating people. That isn’t a character trait, but it does happen from time to time. People can be frustrating in certain situations. Here are four tips on how to deal with frustrating people. Tip 1 – Realize they’re struggling just like …
Fun isn’t something you have, it is something you generate. It is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day activities and daily grind which can remove all pretense of fun from being a leader. Being a leader should be fun! You’ve been asked to guide other human beings! Here are four tips on how …
When you are a leader of people, you might have times when you are disappointed with the outcome of an event. Maybe a sales presentation didn’t go well. Someone on the team might have missed a key deadline for a deliverable. Here are four tips on how to avoid disappointment as a leader. Tip 1 …
When you are a leader of people, sometimes you have fears. Maybe you were fearful that a presentation wouldn’t go as planned. Remember the time when you feared speaking in front of your employees? Recall how worried you were that your boss wouldn’t recognize your team’s efforts to complete a major project on time. We’ve …