[TBD]Learning from leadership tips

Role of leadership

• To help others to become successful

  • Guide the team

• Performance evaluation

• Strategic decisions making

• Hiring

Tips for success

• In any situation, the person who accurately describe reality without blaming will emerge as leader

• Communication skill is extremely important otherwise your idea will not be understood and eventually die.

• Give 5 mins each day for learning

  • Podcast

  • TED talks

  • Learning courses

  • Reading on leadership

  • Watch how you can implement learning to your team

• Leaders touch the heart before they ask for hand

• Practice empathy

  • Empathy doesn't mean that you are agreeing. It just means that you are listening

    • Like you tell that i understand it is painful for you

• Handling low performant

  • If you put lots of time for coaching low performant, you will not get time to work with high performant

    • Use peer coaching

    • Direct the person with the online/offline training

• Communication to team

  • Clearly convey what is important to you and what is important for organization

  • It is not about telling, instead what you convey in your air time which team understands as your interest

  • Even if you think team is not working well, don't complain to CEO since it means that you are not able to manage your own team

    • Try to address the issue as a leader

  • Encourage and appreciate the team whenever possible.

• Handling numbers

  • Always think the purpose of numbers for example sales target numbers

  • Be realistic and be positive

  • Never sugar-coat

  • If team is behind the goal, then

    • Understand strength of each team

    • Encourage team to work on strength

    • Ensure that you trust team and team also trust you

• Giving feedback

  • Prefer 1-1 discussion with team member

  • Mention how his/her team work can translate to the company success. It will help the person to get motivated that his contribution is useful

  • Team level work feedback can be given in public as well

  • For giving negative feedback

    • Give early as soon as possible since later giving might not be acceptable to person and also harm the org

    • Offer resources to help person for learning and correct it

    • If it repeats, then you will have 2nd conversation where you mention how this action affects organization

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• Handling emotion

  • Proactively working on emotion is very important

  • Look backward

    • Who will be next to handle if person leaves

    • How to handle the emotion

• Handling gossip

  • To avoid negative gossip, start positive gossip. For example, mention how a person's or team work was so useful and impactful

  • If someone is spreading negative gossip, address it privately

  • Also, being too much restrictive will harm you since people will be afraid to talk about you

• Adding a team-mate

  • Talk to new person privately, help him/her to ramp-up

• Taking away a team-mate

  • Talk to the person first privately

  • then announce to the team

• Finding a new talent

  • Use your network

  • Also look out of box

  • Understand that top talent will have choices

  • Check emotional connection

    • How person connects to colleague, customer

    • What excites you to join the role

    • What excites you to be in the industry

    • What excites you to be in the company

  • Be open for negotiation

    • See where you can be flexible

• Performance review

  • It is one thing which makes both party become anaxious

  • Performance feedback must not be surprise

    • Give consistent feedback over the year so that performance review becomes just a summary of these feedbacks

  • For positive review, talk how to move the person to next level

  • For negative review, it must not be surprise

    • The person should already be aware of work issue

    • Ask person, how you can help him/her

    • Your feedback should be clear and actionable. Be specific as much as possible

      • Make time-bounded action

    • If needed next time, you can involve HR

• Handling disruption

  • Be relaxed. Note that you put oxygen mask yourself before putting for others

  • Be factual

Tips for knowing that you are leader

• Team thinks you as second most important person in your career

  • First is your spouse

• After talking to you, person feels inspired, excited and motivated

• Team is watching you. However, it can happen for different reason as well

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