Leadership Tips
Explore all of our personal and professional development resources for individuals and organizations.
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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 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: Reinforce What's Important
How do you reinforce what's most important?
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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: 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: 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: 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: Talk Straight
When was the last time you technically told the truth, but left a misleading impression?
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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: Get Input When Brainstorming
Improve the results of your next brainstorming session with this 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: 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: 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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Read MoreLeadership 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.
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Celebrate Wins
Do you spend as much time celebrating the achievement of goals as you spend setting them? Celebrate wins and engage your people with this tip.
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Expect to Win
Great leaders expect to win, especially when faced with unexpected challenges and disruptions.
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Share Your Challenges
Build your emotional strength and grow as a leader by asking for help and sharing difficult challenges.
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Lead Difficult Conversations
Have you avoided a difficult conversation and inadvertently caused the situation to worsen?
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Lead Through Change
When leading through change, are you calm, confident, and focused – or anxious, threatened, and scattered? Be the leader your team deserves, especially during uncertainty, with this tip.
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Check Your Paradigms
Are you seeing people and current events accurately, or are you seeing them through a distorting lens? Check your paradigms with this tip.
