Leading Other People Means It’s About Them, Not You

The role of a leader is to make their team successful.

This means focusing on individual strengths and optimizing those for the team’s benefit.
These writings, insights, exercises, and practices will help you become a more intentional leader for your team.

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𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁. 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲. 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁.

The world has shifted, and so must our approach to leadership. The rules of yesterday no longer apply to the challenges we face today. As leaders, it's crucial to acknowledge this shift and adapt our roles, measurements of success, and methodologies.

Heather E. McGowan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 's insights at the TriNet PeopleForce conference last week were a call to action: “We can't lead the way we were led.”

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Are you making this key investment in your managers?

If you could make one decision that would guarantee an improvement in employee engagement and retention, would you make it?

I think most of you would.

And what if that decision would also drive higher business performance?

You know you would do it.

Unfortunately, most organizations are not yet doing this one thing.

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Are You Showing Up as a Brave Leader?

Many of us would not describe ourselves as brave individuals. We have a persona in mind that doesn’t “look” like us. We think that a brave person is strong physically or assertive in their communications or bold in their risk-taking.

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Shift the Mindset from Supervisors to Performance Coaches

If we revise our definition of what being a supervisor means, from oversight to performance coaching, employees and organizations will perform better. Being a performance coach means asking two key questions: how do I help this person be better tomorrow than they are today, and what can I do to help them? In many cases, senior leaders may operate as performance coaches for their team members, but often, it doesn’t trickle down to the line and middle management levels.

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Unintended Consequences

Give some thought to the recent feedback messages you have given or received.  Would you change anything?  If so, take that lesson forward to the next one.  Make sure you don't end up with unintended consequences from your message delivery.

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The Cookie-Cutter Approach

If you’re building a product, you want each person to follow the same design specs and end up with the identical product, but that doesn’t mean there’s a one-size-fits-all approach to leading the team to that prescribed outcome. A cookie-cutter approach to motivating the team members will not get you to the optimal impact.

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Showing Up For Your Team…Are You Listening?

Are you hearing what your teams are saying through their words or actions or are you limited because of the box you have put yourself in? Are you just hearing the voices of your peers or those that align with your way of thinking or are you listening to a broad, diverse audience? Are you hearing individual insights but not stepping back to see if there's a broader message?

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