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There is one captain, but without a team there can be no captain.
Local Hero Melissa shares her thoughts on how to pilot the LHAS experience.
Clarify, crystalize and communicate a compelling positive vision for your team.
There are three types of vision: Positive visions, status quo visions, and visions of disaster. Great leaders and their teams are excited about the teams vision, and they confidently know that taking the right actions will make the team even more successful in the future.
Set higher goals.
Weak or mediocre goals are neither challenging, nor motivating. Unclear goals distract from the vision. Ensure that going into the new year, each member of the team has clear goals that are challenging and aligned with the department, team, and organizational goals.
Recognize success more often.
Every day, a lot of good and great things happen. Great leaders take the time to be grateful for the big and little things people do daily to contribute to the teams success.
Listen more.
Great leaders know they dont have all the answers. They commit to asking more questions and listening to the answers. Listening is one of the best ways to show team members that you value their opinions and care about their success.
Innovate and create more.
Great leaders are constantly working on solving big problems or creating and innovating new ways to do things.
Mentor someone.
In order to maximize potential, you need to invest time and resources into your team members development. Great leaders make themselves available to help others grow and become even better than they are. Schedule and hold regular one-on-one sessions with your direct reports to discuss and establish paths to their success.
Learn something new.
What courses will you take? What conferences will you attend? What books will you read, or podcasts will you listen to? Learning is critical to your success in a rapidly changing world. It is also motivating to both you and members of your team.
Make more mistakes.
When you are innovating, creating, and learning new things, youre bound to make mistakes. Fail often, but fail quickly. The small cost of failure is nothing compared to the huge cost of not trying.
Be an even better role model.
By sticking to these goals throughout the year and demonstrating their positive impact, you are engaging and inspiring team members to follow your lead and do the same.
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Excerpt from Bill McBean's article on FastCompany.com
There are essentially five characteristics of great leaders. The first of these is being flexible. Not everything goes as planned. Competitors change tactics, governments force new regulations on business, strikes stop the flow of products, and, occasionally, natural disasters occur. And at times like these, leaders have to be able to change course; that is, first make sure their businesses will survive, and then find a new way to reach their goals.
The second characteristic is being able to communicate. Some leaders are great orators, but speaking well isn’t all that’s required of a leader. As we all know, there are lots of people who talk a great game but deliver nothing. Leaders who communicate well are those who not only share their thoughts with employees, but also let their strength and personal character show through in their communication, and empower those who work for them by defining the company’s goal and showing how to get there.
A third characteristic of great leaders–or, perhaps, group of characteristics–is having courage, tenacity, and patience. Having the courage to stand alone, the tenacity to not succumb to pressure, and the patience to keep fighting until you win the day–and sometimes being able to do all three at the same time–is something you will have to develop if you want to be a true and successful leader.
The fourth necessary characteristic is the combination of humility and presence. Acting aloof, or above your employees, does not make a leader. Leaders have to be able to talk and listen to their employees on all levels of the company. At the same time, they must have the respect of their employees, the kind of respect that’s earned by being honest, having integrity, and being tough but fair.
The fifth and final characteristic of a successful leader is being responsible. A business owner has to realize that, as the saying goes, “A skunk stinks from the head down,” and a business does too. This means when there is blame to be accepted, the owner must be the first one to accept it. But it also means that when accolades are appropriate, they should be spread out among the employees. And when this happens, a leader is born.
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