Leadership Accelerators
Honesty and Integrity:
Tips:
- Stay true to your individual values and organizational values
- Build trust within your team
- Be authentic
- Stand up for the right
- Protect privacy of your team members
- Avoid gossip groups
- Provide accurate and factual answers to all questions
- Be strong and take tough decisions if required
- Support integrity at all times, whatever the situation maybe.
- Practice what you preach
- Encourage honesty and punish dishonesty
Give feedback
Tips:
- Guide your people
- Correct your people
- Direct your people
- Establish scheduled feedback sessions regularly
Receive feedback
Tips:
- Listen to feedback
- Don’t be defensive
- Encourage suggestions
- Learn from feedback
Communicate
Tips:
- Talk to your team members on a regular basis
- Encourage open communication channels
- Make yourself accessible
- Be approachable
- Speak to people down the hierarchy
- Be open
- Facilitate discussion platforms
- Make time to speak to your people
Build on the strengths of your people
Tips:
- Optimize your team member’s talents and capabilities
- Identify and allocate tasks depending on your team members strengths wherever possible.
- Stand by your people
- Help your people make decisions
- Guide your people
- Encourage best practice sharing sessions among your team members
Encourage innovation
Tips:
- Encourage team member suggestions
- Encourage new ways of working
Inspire performance
Tips:
- Set high targets for yourself
- Be your own benchmark
- Create a performance driven culture
Motivate your people
Tips:
- Encourage your people to take up challenging roles
- Be your team member’s mentor and guide
- Coach your people
- Reward good performers
- Give opportunities for growth and success
Display humility
Tips:
- Be kind
- Be humble
- Encourage equality
Set an example
Tips:
- Be the example
- Practice what you preach
Meet deadlines
if you are unable to meet a deadline for whatever the reason maybe, it is best to inform the concerned stakeholders at the earliest possible time so that can either make other arrangements or organize their work accordingly.
Tips:
- Prioritize your work to meet deadlines
- Set internal targets
- Take the help of your team members if and when possible
Confront issues and behaviors
Create a positive environment
Own up to your mistakes
Reward your people
Celebrate success with your people