Grown-Up Leadership: The Benefits of Personal Growth for You and Your Team

For example, encourage everyone to share their top tips on the LMS news feed. Praise is powerful stuff, especially when it comes from leaders! They understand the importance of banishing ambiguity and unrealistic expectations by setting clear objectives for their team members. So give your managers the right training and tools to ensure they set clear SMART goals for their team. At Growth Engineering we use a bottom-up productivity tool called 5x5s. Give it a try! This is because employees are more engaged when they understand their place in the bigger picture.

Last but not least, great leaders know their team inside out. They know where the strengths and skills gaps are and how to best structure their teams for success.

Everyone in your team can get to know each other better, by sharing their skills and strengths on the LMS message boards. So what are you waiting for? Go and get to know your team! To all my fellow learning leaders, I leave you with my final thoughts for strong leadership. Listen to your team, learn together and remember to have fun along the way! As Churchill wisely said: Sign up to our blog below to stay up to date on all the juicy details. Growing Strong Leadership Skills: What Makes a Great Leader?

October 26, Daniel King. Me and my fellow superheroes leading each other to victory! Want to keep reading? Here is some related content! If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you're not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships--then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far with your team or leadership.

Make progress with small wins.

Teach them that everything is hard before it's easy. Encourage your team to persist until something happens. Remember that they will never know their limits until they're pushed to the edge. Great leaders know that when you push people to their limits, you are teaching them to always go further. When you exceed your limits enough, you realize that there really are no limits.

Give them something to learn and grow on. The best teams, like the best leaders, are never stagnant. Build plenty of opportunities for your team members to learn and grow--whether it's a class, a conference, or even a reading group or lunchtime seminar series. Show them fearlessness and encourage them to be brave.

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As a leader, you need to show your team fearlessness and encourage them to be brave, to take chances, to go out on a limb. Great leaders coach and teach their team--they are right there with them, not on the sidelines screaming and instilling fear but showing them fearlessness and encouraging bravery within them.

Earn their respect and give them yours. The way to unleash greatness in your team is to both show them respect and give them reason to respect you. Mutual respect is critical to any team, so set an example by treating everyone you encounter with respect. Admit that you don't have all the answers. T ransparency is important, and so is showing your human side. Let your team see that leadership doesn't mean having all the answers--or pretending to. Instead, focus on leading everyone toward greatness by showing them the benefits of collaborative problem solving.

The highest level of success comes not from beating others out but from creating win-win solutions. Everyone benefits from little gains along the way, and the more opportunities you create, the bigger the benefit. Be agile and flexible. Great leaders embrace agility and honor flexibility, because they know that things are constantly changing and flexibility is a fundamental requirement for leadership. Being an agile and flexible leader aligns with the need for your team to be collaborative and cooperative, and it aligns and empowers teams to hold those qualities.

Get personal as you are being professional.

Building a great team means building a personal relationship with each member of your team. It doesn't have to be a close friendship, but a recognition of people as fully developed human beings and not just team members who get the job done. Make sure you spend some time getting to know them, show them that you genuinely care about them and have their best interests in mind. When you return, you'll have a team that's ready to unleash their greatness. Be honest and encourage candor. A great leader is honest; they encourage their teams to be transparent and speak with candor.

Especially when things go wrong, it is important that everyone feel that they can speak with honesty. Honesty is the best policy. Be accessible and available: Part of being a leader involves being there for your team.

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If they have a question or need advice, make sure it's easy for them to access you. With mobile email and cell phones there is no reason your team shouldn't be able to get in touch with you when they need to. Consistently praise them and always appreciate them.