How To Accelerate Growth

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‘Business is a team sport! Everyone must up their skills and teamwork in order to achieve the future vision and goals!’

Role clarity is critical! No pro team would show up to a game without knowing their positions. If they did, it would look more like a free-for-all than professional play!’

‘The more psychological safety you generate, the more you can request people to perform outside their comfort zones. It requires courage to step up and take more ownership for delivering outcomes. That’s why they need safety!’

‘… being effective at leading innovation means that you have to master your ability to spend a lot of time in discomfort, and make it safe for your team to be in discomfort right alongside you.’

‘You must renegotiate if the outcome cannot be reached with the current plan.’

‘To have the culture you desire, you have to build good leadership habits!’

‘Recognizing when things go off track is key! You know you are off track when achieving the intended outcome isn’t possible without a significant change.’

Don’t offer anything you can’t or won’t actually do.’

‘Making clear, conscious, effective agreements is a foundational skill. It’s worth practicing to achieve mastery.’

Agreements are a process, not a promise. As situations change, so must the agreements. There is way too much change always happening in business to consider anything an unchangeable ‘promise.’

Delegation is a two-way process with mutual responsibility. When everyone involved is responsible to generate a good agreement, it takes the pressure off any one person to get it right.’

Source

Annie Hyman Pratt (2022). Seven Agreements Entrepreneurs and Leaders Make to Build Teams, Accelerate Growth, and Banish Burnout for Good

How To Become A Great Manager

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Managing other people is not about control. It is not about telling them what to do. Managing other people is about love. If you do not love people, you can’t work with them.

Love means you care. Love says, ‘I see you. I am with you.’ The question is, ‘Are you a great change manager? Do you care about your people? Are you in the game for yourself? Or are you in it for others?

According to Scott Miller, ‘One of your key assignments is to help change feel participatory for your team.’

‘As effective as your first communication might have been, your team will need time to process and understand the change.’

‘Information and action are the antidotes to fear.’

‘… Communicate comprehensively and constantly.

‘Communicating change simply, clearly, and with respect for the concerns and experience of your direct reports is key to kicking off a change initiative in a positive way.’

‘Don’t make your direct reports guess your motivations for requesting feedback.’

‘Leaders provide feedback to help people see what they are not seeing.’

‘When a leader delegates and gets back a poor result, it is usually the leader’s responsibility.’

‘Great leaders plan goals with their teams rather than for them, and delegate tasks without abandoning or micromanaging. They shift from telling team members what to do, to aligning their work to greater purposes and supporting their efforts.’

‘Because you’re a leader, you’re noticed. Every time you communicate, every time you open your mouth, you create culture.’

Source:

Scott Miller, Todd Davis and Victoria Roos Olsson (2019). Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team