Tag: Leadership Performance

10 ‘Practical Lessons For New Managers’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘To be a great boss, you have to set clear, well-defined, and explicit expectations for your team members.’

‘Set clear expectations for your people. And when you think your expectations are clear enough, go back and make them even clearer.’

‘To be a great manager, not only do you have to be great at giving effective feedback, but also you have to be great at receiving effective feedback from your team.’

‘To be a great manager, make sure your team feels comfortable speaking up and speaking out.’

‘You cannot create a one-size-fits-all development plan for all individuals on your team.’

‘To be a great manager, don’t be afraid to use performance improvement plans to clearly articulate how team members can get better.‘

‘To motivate your team, understand what uniquely drives each of your employees.’

‘A great team needs a strong foundation built early in the team’s life.’

‘To be a great manager, help your team members develop goals that motivate and understand when goals just don’t matter.’

‘Build into your management practice questions that ask how your team members are truly feeling. And be truly interested in a response often than ‘fine.’

‘The first rule of good communicating is simply to make sure you are actually communicating. And the second rule is to overcommunicate. Repeat the point you want to get across. Then repeat it again. And repeat it one more time.’

‘Hiring the right people makes life wonderful- full of rainbows and butterflies and unicorns. Hiring the wrong people makes life a nightmare.’

Source

Rachel Pacheco (2021). Bringing Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers

Why Leaders Go First

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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As a leader, if you want to make a difference in your life, you must go first. You must start first. You must have the courage to go first.

When you go first, you are ahead of those who are still waiting for someone to tell them when to start.

That is what great leaders do. They go first. They don’t wait for someone else to tell them when to start doing things.

According to Brian Tracy, ‘Leaders don’t wait for someone else to do something.’

‘Leadership is about responsibility, and that includes the responsibility for taking control of your life and ensuring your happiness.’

‘Leaders take care of themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally, which gives them the energy and peace of mind to deal with the challenges and stress of leadership.’

‘Leaders are paid to make the difficult decisions, and sometimes that means issuing a command.’

‘Good leaders are able to find people who are strong where they are weak; that way they can concentrate on developing their own strengths to even greater heights.’

‘Leaders are self-motivated to put in the work required to achieve their dreams.’ Leaders work harder. Leaders work faster. Leaders work longer hours.’

‘Effective leaders treat everyone, the weak and the powerful, in the same way.’

‘Leaders recognize that they are not perfect, but know that they are still competent and skilled.’

‘Leaders commit themselves to excellent performance. They will accept nothing else from themselves or others.’

‘Leaders believe that they have the control in their hands- otherwise, they could not be leaders.’

Source:

Brian Tracy (2014). Leadership