7 crucial tips for being a highly-effective leader
Here are my top tips for being a highly-effective leader. If you’re aiming to develop your leadership skills, it’s going to take effort, time, and patience. Be realistic with yourself and most importantly, be kind to yourself.
How to give up control and delegate
This is something extremely common I hear leaders struggling with; most importantly, I hear it as a frustration from people about their boss or someone in their organization who is a micromanager or can’t let go and delegate. The ability to loosen your grip will actually make you more successful as a leader.
How negative self-talk and firmly held beliefs are holding you back
These negative self-talk thoughts can be so subconscious that we don’t even realize they’re happening. We also automatically make them a fact, without challenging them or their validity. This can be majorly holding you back from achieving your goals, reaching your potential, feeling confident and secure, and exhibiting highly-effective competencies.
Clients or employees? Who gets priority?
Everywhere I’ve worked has prioritized customers and clients on a pedestal above everyone else. I’ve had bosses and potential bosses cancel meetings & interviews last-minute due to client ‘fire drills’ (needless to say – I am skeptical of who was placing the urgency on these tasks).
3 ways your organization/leadership is operating reactively and why it’s not serving you
One of the biggest ways I see companies and leaders struggle is due to operating reactively. Why do companies tend to operate reactively? In my experience as an Executive Coach, the reason most organizations operate reactively is because they lack a strong, cohesive, highly-effective senior leadership team.
Stop over-apologizing at work
“Sorry” has become an overused word and when it is overused, it loses meaning and sincerity. Often, it is being used for things that don’t require an apology. Additionally, when you apologize for things that do require an apology but do so without genuine remorse or an attempt at changing your behavior – is worthless and erodes trust.
After 14 years of working full-time, here’s what I learned…
Here are 10 things I learned after working 14+ years full-time in the corporate world.
When employees don’t meet expectations
This may seem very simplistic, but it is not always the most comfortable task. The key is to approach the subject as soon as the expectation isn’t met. Here are 5 steps.
Are you a serial meeting rescheduler?
The advancement of technology tools and an ever-increasing virtual world gives an illusion now that it’s acceptable (or without consequence) to postpone or cancel last-minute.
Help your employees think for themselves
By making yourself too available, you might be unintentionally enabling your employees or coworkers. If we want our employees and coworkers to be resourceful and solve their own problems, we need to realize what role we are playing in promoting their empowerment (or holding them back).
Are you too agreeable? A people pleaser?
Are you too agreeable? A people pleaser? Too accommodating? Non-committal? Sugarcoating? Avoiding tough conversations?
Minimizing gossip & politics
When you have direct reports who are gossiping, what do you do about it as their leader?
