Leadership Tips
Explore all of our personal and professional development resources for individuals and organizations.
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Read MoreLeadership 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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Read MoreLeadership 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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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Get Input When Brainstorming
Improve the results of your next brainstorming session with this tip.
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Read MoreLeadership 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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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Talk Straight
When was the last time you technically told the truth, but left a misleading impression?
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Read MoreLeadership 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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Read MoreLeadership 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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Read MoreLeadership 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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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Listen First
When was the last time you listened to understand rather than to reply?
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Reinforce What's Important
How do you reinforce what's most important?
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Read MoreLeadership 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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Read MoreLeadership 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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Read MoreBlog: 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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Read MoreBlog: 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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Read MoreA 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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Read MoreVideo: 5 Essential Tips for Effective 1 on 1 Meetings
Rob Cahill Vice President, Passholder Experience and Services, shares 5 tips on how to how regular and effective 1-on-1s so you can surface issues, and develop your direct reports into the people they want to become.
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Read MoreVideo: Paradigms
In this video from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People work session, Stephen R. Covey explains the significance of paradigms and how they affect the way we behave and the results we achieve.
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Read MoreBlog: 3 Things Every Leader Needs to Know About Trust, the No. 1 Leadership Competency
In an era when trust is hard to come by — and more important than ever, as we work to solve vital and unprecedented problems — leaders at all levels need to understand three fundamental truths about trust:
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Read MoreBlog: 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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Read MoreLeadership 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.
