Posts Tagged ‘tips for new leaders’
From Great Professional To Great Leader
You may well be the best in your professional field. However, as you progress, the key is to successfully make the transition from great professional to great leader.
So what are my best tips?
- Discover where your real strengths lie. There will be things you are good at and things at which you excel. Get to know what these are.
- Acknowledge your weaker areas and look to find others who have those skills.
- Have a plan for development so that you can acquire the skills, qualities and attributes to thrive as a leader.
- Start building, or at least identifying, those people who you want to have on your team.
- Find out what it really takes to prosper as a leader from those who have done it.
- Make a conscious choice to lead rather than taking on the role because it seems like a logical next step.
The truth is that being a great professional does not automatically mean that you will be a great leader.
Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here
5 Top Tips For New Leaders
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- Recognize that it is a big step and going to be challenging.
- Don’t make change just for the sake of it.
- Take time to do some fact finding before doing anything significant.
- Don’t pre-judge anyone before you have given them a chance.
- Remember it is a marathon and not a sprint.
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Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here
Video Blog Post: Five Traps For New Leaders
As a new leader you want to deliver great results. However, there are some traps to avoid if you want to deliver as a leader.
Find out what in this short video. As always, if there are traps of your own that you think others should avoid, please leave a comment.
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Leadership: 5 Potential Hazards Facing New Leaders
You have just got your fist leadership role. Chances are you are excited, elated and feeling generally positive. At the same time you know that becoming leader brings with it many new challenges and hazard that you need to be alert to.
Hazard 1: Self Doubt
You have got o the level of leader because you are good at what you do, have demonstrated achievement and potential for the future. Yet you know that it is a big step. Some people I know have described it as being back on the bottom rung of the ladder again. Recognise that there will always be doubt and fear when you move into a leadership role and this is totally natural.
Hazard 2: Being Swayed By The Most Vocal
When you move into a leadership role you will have no shortage of people ready to tell you what to do, what not to do, who to avoid, who to get on with to name just a few. As a new leader you need to take the time to do your fact finding rather than just relying on those with most to say.
Hazard 3: Making Being Liked The No 1 Priority
In any situation there will be people who will support you, others who will block you and some who will jump either way depending on the issue. Remember that each time you take a decision it will be popular with some but not with others. Take decisions in terms of what is likely to give the best result rather than being the most popular.
Hazard 4: Dismissing The Past
You probably want to make changes as a new leader. Trouble is most people don’t like change. The poor leader will be critical and dismissive of the past and what happened previously. The good leader by contrast will still make changes but at the same time try to bring good elements from the past forward.
Hazard 5: Not Taking Control Of Your Time
One of the biggest challenges of any leader is getting everything done and it can sometimes feel like you are drowning. Being an effective leader starts with highly effective self leadership and taking control of your time is a huge contributor.
What other hazards would you add to the list?
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