As a manager do you wake up every morning asking yourself, “what can I do today to make myself better than I was yesterday?” Wouldn’t you love for your employees to engage in the same school of thought? Begin with yourself and see how these principles will extend to your staff and ultimately create a more successful work environment.
I’ve compiled a leadership checklist to help you get started. Do you embrace these practices?
- Instill trust and integrity
- Be a visionary
- Surround yourself with smart people and advisors
- Be willing to take risks
- Be a doer not just a thinker; EXECUTE!
- Embrace your fears and challenges
- Value all relationships
- Gather all facts and weigh options and decisions appropriately
- Encourage your people and push them to greatness
- Take the time to listen
- Emphasize education and the importance of knowledge
- Outline a coarse of action for long term and short term goals
- Encourage innovative ideas from peers and subordinates
- Acknowledge credit where credit is due
- Value team and individual accomplishments and reward accordingly
- Be confident but don’t let your ego sacrifice your success
- Know when to re-evaluate and regroup
- Revel in your successes but take your biggest lessons from mistakes and failures
- Lead by example
A true leader understands the importance of bettering themselves and those around them, so share these principles with your peers, employees and friends. Carpe Diem. Take the step to make changes and improvements today. As Napoleon Hill once stated, "The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do."
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