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Team Building: 12 tips for Effective Leadership
Keeping your team working at their optimum level depends on having and maintaining great leadership skills at the workplace.
Listed below are 12 quick tips to draw out the best from your employees and/or group members that you manage.
- Live the question: Keep asking yourself constantly - 'of all that is required to happen, how can I use my time most valuably right now?'
- The Philosophy of Continuing Improvement: Ability is strength. Work consciously everyday, at getting a little better at every little thing you are involved with.
- Maintain integrity: An effective leader is known for his integrity. Always keep your word.
- Recognize your most valuable asset: While your products or your bottom-line may be terrific, internalize the knowledge that your most valuable asset is the people who work with you.
- Feel-good factor: Strive to create an environment that encourages your people to feel good about themselves, take pride in their work and in doing it well.
- Declare your objectives: Tell your people what your objectives are and what their role is in meeting those objectives. And then, allow them to get on with their job.
- Acknowledge: To get your team to constantly give their best to you, you must continually acknowledge them and let them know how important they are to you.
- Recognize special talents: You may have a team member who has some special talent that is not being tapped in the present set-up. Recognize the value of that talent and create a position to put that talent to good use.
- Learn to listen: Make time to listen to your team members and hear what they are actually saying. Sometimes, people don't know how to clearly say what they mean. Learn to listen to even what is not being said.
- Lead by example: Your team will only truly learn the standards you expect of them, if you walk your talk. You, be their example.
- Confronting fear: True leaders are not fearless people. They are those who face their fear, acknowledge it and move ahead towards their objective inspite of the fear.
- Dress right: The way you look has an impact on the responses you get. Ensure you dress crisply, neatly and in keeping with your role....don't overdo it, at the same time avoid being sloppy. Dress to convey you mean business. Image is important when leading other people. Dress for success. In the game of people, they tend to judge you by the way you look on the outside.
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