Lewis Williams
Founder, Cadence Leadership Advisory
Being a leader is not easy. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been a leader for a while or if you’re new to your role. In fact, you don’t even need to have leadership in your job title to perform like one or have to deal with the many challenges that come with leading people or processes.
Even if you’ve found your feet in leadership, you may be looking to improve your performance or that of your team. And, if you’re a leader of your organisation you might need to review your strategy and culture before you can grow and scale.
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5. If you think you’re talking too much, imagine how your team must feel. Leadership is all about influencing your team to achieve its objectives. In most cases, where you have inherited a team, it is more than likely going to include at least one (usually more) members that you probably wouldn’t have hired.
3. The most valuable feedback is best delivered “in the moment”. Most of us have been on the receiving end of corrective feedback. While any form of feedback is a gift, corrective feedback is always a touchy subject because it’s facing into a situation where things didn’t go as well as they could have.
1. Flip the switch from technical master to personal risk taker. Most people that are appointed to lead a team for the first time are there for one reason – they have displayed sufficient aptitude at the technical skill performed by the team to assume the role of leading it.
