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Leadership Tips
Explore all of our personal and professional development resources for individuals and organizations.
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Leadership Tip: Ask Insightful Questions
Are you asking insightful questions? Great questions can provoke real insight and lay the foundation for change. Make sure you put aside your agenda and ask questions that assume capability.
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Leadership Tip: Practice, Practice, Practice
We all have things we could improve on. Whether that's on hard skills like learning computer programming or soft skills like relationship building, we need to take time to improve ourselves.
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Blog: Manage The Chaos Of Adopting Change
Two actions you can implement to keep your chaos to a minimum and have a short and shallow results curve during your period of change.
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A 4-Ingredient Recipe for Leadership Success in 2021
Jennifer Colosimo, president of the enterprise division at FranklinCovey, recently represented FranklinCovey in an article for Training Industry titled “A 4-Ingredient Recipe for Leadership Success in 2021.
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Blog: 6 Traits That Make New Leaders Great Leaders
As you’re surveying your leadership bench strength, consider these traits of great leaders
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Blog: Are you a Strategic Leader of L&D?
Wait, don’t answer that. As much as the term strategic is thrown around, it’s not a simple question. Nor is strategic leadership a one-time commitment you can add to your resume like a job certification.
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Leadership Tip: Build Other Leaders
One of the essential roles of leadership is to coach potential by unleashing the untapped talent and potential of others.
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Leadership Tip: Demonstrate Humility
Has your lack of humility ever limited your perspective or lessened your influence as a leader? Would you even know if it had?
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Leadership Tip: Reinforce What's Important
How do you reinforce what's most important?
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Leadership Tip: Listen First
When was the last time you listened to understand rather than to reply?
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Leadership Tip: Model Work/Life Balance
If paparazzi had followed you last week, would they have seen a balance of activities at work and outside of work? What’s the impact?
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Leadership Tip: Place the Right People in the Right Roles
How many people on your team are in the right role? Do you need to make adjustments?
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Leadership Tip: Make High-Value Decisions
Do you dedicate your time to the activities that will yield the most impactful results on the organization and your team’s mission?
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Leadership Tip: Talk Straight
When was the last time you technically told the truth, but left a misleading impression?
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Leadership Tip: Confront Bad Behavior
Difficult behaviors often work for people because the behaviors catch us off guard and we freeze (e.g., your brain starts racing and you think, Did she really just say that?) and/or we get so uncomfortable that we do whatever it takes to end the interaction.
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Leadership Tip: Get Input When Brainstorming
Improve the results of your next brainstorming session with this tip.
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Leadership Tip: You Can Veto, But Not Dictate
Create a greater sense of ownership and engagement on your team by including your direct reports in the goal-setting process.
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Leadership Tip: Create Accountability
As a leader, it is your job to clear a path for success and recognize performance. Learn how to create accountability with this FranklinCovey leadership tip.
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Leadership Tip: Narrow Your Goals
Leadership Tip: Do you have too many goals? People who try for too many goals at once usually end up doing a mediocre job on all of them. Apply the principle of focus to your future goals for future success.
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Leadership Tip: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard
People play differently when they are keeping score. Let your team know whether they are winning or losing and drive engagement with this leadership tip.