Musings on Leadership

Last week I mentioned delegation as one of the four "ations" of being a good leader. I thought this week I might go into further detail. To recap a bit about delegation in last week'e email, you have a LOT on your plate as a leader. There are a lot of things for which you are responsible for making sure get done. The demands on your time never seem to end while you only have 24 hours every day. I would like to point out that just because you're "responsible for" making sure something gets done, that doesn't mean you necessarily HAVE to do it YOURSELF!  As the leader, there are always going to be some things that you absolutely have to do yourself, you can't delegate them. But a LOT of what you're "responsible for" are things you CAN delegate to team members. With that in mind, here are the 4 parts to effective delegation: What gets delegated? Anything you don't HAVE to do yourself should be delegated. To whom does it get delegated? ...

I've said before that leadership, at its very core, isn't that difficult. It's having a vision of where you'd like to go and being able to communicate that vision to others so that they buy into it. With that in mind, here are four "ations" you need to be a good leader. Delegation As a leader you have a lot on your plate. You should make it a priority to delegate EVERYTHING that you don't absolutely, positively HAVE to do yourself. This doesn't make you lazy. This doesn't mean you're trying to get out of doing your job. As a leader, your job is to make decisions, to make sure your team is doing their jobs. Your scarcest resource is time. Delegating that which you don't HAVE to do, frees up time to do the things you must do. Not only that, it helps build new leaders by giving them greater responsibilities. Communication Communication is probably the most important part of being a leader. Your team wants to do a good job for you. In order to ...

I’ve said before that leadership, at its very core, isn’t that difficult. It’s having a vision of where you’d like to go and being able to communicate that vision to others so that they buy into it. With that in mind, here are four tips to being a good leader. Delegation As a leader you have a lot on your plate. You should make it a priority to delegate EVERYTHING that you don’t absolutely, positively HAVE to do yourself. This doesn’t make you lazy. This doesn’t mean you’re trying to get out of doing your job. As a leader, your job is to make decisions, to make sure your team is doing their jobs. Your scarcest resource is time. Delegating that which you don’t HAVE to do, frees up time to do the things you must do. Not only that, it helps build new leaders by giving them greater responsibilities. Communication Communication is probably the most important part of being a leader. Your team wants to do a good job for you. In order to do that, they need to know exactly what it is you expect...