High Performance Leadership

As a leader, how much do you share with your team? When it comes to leveraging your success and keeping your team positive and performing, sharing is a powerful tool. Successful supervisors share what they know about the organization, including upcoming changes and strategic moves. They share their own personal goals. They share the resources needed for their team to achieve its goals. The list could be very long. The challenge to many leaders is that they don't share enough. Centered leaders know that by sharing the whole is made greater than the parts. By sharing, you do not diminish your excellence but rather increase it. I'm not talking about private, personal details about your life. Share those if you want to, but that's not what I mean here. Successful supervisors share generously the details of their work, their vision, their values, and their goals. Supervisors succeed by sharing knowledge, power, and responsibility.   How are you doing at sharing? What...

Do you remember the last time you got a new boss? Were there questions in your mind about what to expect? Did you feel any anxiety about your ability to get along? You probably knew that things were about to change, but may not have been sure whether those changes would be for the better or not. What about when you become the new boss? Do you consider how that effects other people? Do you plan for ways to let people know your expectations? Taking over as a new boss is tough. But, so is reporting to one. Take charge of your feelings and help other people deal with theirs. There's too much work to be done to waste time by ignoring what's important. How your people is important. -- Douglas Brent Smith