Leadership Tips

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  • Leadership Tip: Ask Insightful Questions

    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: You Can Veto, But Not Dictate

    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

    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: 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: Set Clear Expectations And Goals

    Leadership Tip: Set Clear Expectations And Goals

    Are your assumptions about people influencing their performance? When setting expectations, avoid relying on assumptions that can set people up to fail.

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  • Leadership Tip: Make High-Impact Commitments

    Leadership Tip: Make High-Impact Commitments

    What are the one or two most important things you can do this week to impact performance and achieve goals? Make high-impact commitments with this tip.

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  • Achieving Results in Unpredictable Times

    Achieving Results in Unpredictable Times

    In times of great uncertainty, leaders are faced with one of two choices. Freeze to the point of inaction, allowing uncertainty to damage culture, performance, results, and significantly slow a return to greatness. Or, transform fear into engagement, execute with excellence, use the uncertainty as a time to actually increase trust, and help everyone in the organization prepare to do more with less.

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