Accountability Hacks – 12 Ways to Check the Troops, and Why You Should
Having a goal, a plan, and asking teammates to do things is only the start for you as a leader. Making sure everyone does his job to make the plan happen is a critical part of leading the team to success. One word for this idea is Accountability. Leaders who check and make sure things […]
3 Things You Should Know About Rewards – 2 Minute Tip
Rewarding people is a great tool for your leader’s tool kit, but there are three things you should keep in mind if you want the reward you give to have the greatest impact.
How Serving Can Make You a Better Leader
The popular ideal of a leader who stands alone in the face of adversity barking orders that are instantly obeyed makes for good cinema. But in the real world, that’s not the way the most effective leaders get the job done. Instead, they practice something called Servant-Leadership, a much more powerful and sustainable approach to […]
Know This One Thing Before You Try to Lead – 2 Minute Tip
Leading a team includes accomplishing the mission while also taking care of people. If your people’s needs aren’t being met, chances are that the mission is going to suffer. Here’s a simple framework you can keep in mind when working with your people to ensure you are meeting their needs.
Are you Contagious? 3 Ways to Manage your Emotional Message
People tend to think of emotion as what is happening on our insides that may be reflected on our exterior: a frown, a smile, a way of standing or walking. And what happens inside transfers to the outside in our expressions. But the opposite is also true – what happens on the outside of other […]
How to Take Control – Two Minute Tip
What you do with your body affects how you think with your head. Here is a simple way you can use this fact as a leader to get people’s attention and take control of a group.
Expert Power and What to do if you Don’t Have it
As a leader, chances are that there are people on your team who know a lot more than you about what your group does. They have Expert power, yet you are supposed to be in charge. Want to know how to work with these people? Here are five things you need to know about expert […]
Positive Feedback – Catch them Doing Something Right
Giving feedback to your people is critical to getting the job done, but a typical mistake many new (and not so new) leaders make is to focus on the negative, to catch people doing something wrong, and then correcting them. In this post, we’ll take a look at the power of giving frequent, positive feedback and […]
Problem Solving 2: So Crazy it Might Just Work
How do you develop possible solutions? This video focuses on the second step of the problem solving process – how to develop alternative solutions. We start with a fun look at how two seemingly crazy ideas actually solved difficult problems. Then we watch a brainstorming session, and break down how you can lead one to […]
Taking Charge 4: Set the Vision
This video is part four in the five part series that details five simple steps a new leader can take to assert himself, earn the trust of his teammates, and begin to lead effectively. Here we discuss the importance setting a clear vision and focusing on a few specific goals as a way of asserting […]
Taking Charge 3: Communicate
This video is part three in the five part series that details five simple steps a new leader can take to assert himself, earn the trust of his teammates, and begin to lead effectively. Here we discuss the importance of establishing communications, and cover a few techniques that will help get communication up and running […]
Taking Charge 1: Gain Position
This video outlines five key steps a new leader can take immediately when taking over leadership of a team or group, and details the first one. The steps are designed to enhance the new leader’s confidence in what he is doing, and rapidly build up a high level of trust with his teammates so that […]