LC01: Leadership Essen1al: TAO
Take Time for Your Leadership To be worth following, you have to be serious about your leadership, starting with taking time for it. Not just wishing for it or hoping there will be more of it next week. Or asking for it. As a leader, time is something you take. You block it out and defend it in your calendar – for the big planning sessions and for walking around, checking-in to strengthen your relations. When talking about time, always go beyond the deadline and discuss the duration. You want to consider not just when a task is completed but also how much effort has been put into it.
Make Robust Agreements Think back on a leader you enjoyed working for. In all likelihood you had very few misunderstandings, which implies she/he made good agreements – from daily assignments to strategic direction. In your leadership, you can allow only positive surprises. Any negative surprise – like a misunderstanding about a deadline or level of quality – erodes the trust, deducts on your leadership capital balance, and takes away the desire to follow you.
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