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Do you spend most of your day dealing with petty employee issues and feel like you never get around to leading the team? Do you know what your vision of leadership is and can you achieve the vision? How can you break out of the rut you are in?
Good managers are rare, as there is an increasing demand to be both a disciplined, skilled leader, a good coach, and a visionary.

During the holidays, I was visiting family in Ohio and engaged in an interesting conversation with a successful engineer on the leadership track in a growing corporation. He mentioned how much time he spends a day resolving personality issues of his team, rather than doing the work he is supposed to do. So how do you do it? How can you change the course you are on?

3 Tips:
1. Create a good communication system, including how to handle phone, email and memos.
2. Ask questions that enable your team to become part of the decision making, and ways to encorage who will take on more responsibility.

3. Break the vision into steps, so that several team member can be responsible for reaching different goals.

In today’s fast moving world, people get promoted with the expectations that they will be able to take on greater leadership, be more effective and productive, and effectively manage change without further training.  Ask for training or team coaching.  Getting the group together for 3 to 4 half days can make a huge difference in being able to lead and manage. Why go it alone?

~ Kate ~

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