MONTH 1MISSION, VISION, AND ACCOUNTABILITY
#1 INVEST DAILY IN BECOMING A GREAT LEADER
It's important for you to practice the leadership secrets in this book every day and invest in becoming the best leader you can be for yourself and your team. Leadership is always changing, and the work is never done. You can always learn new strategies and execute new plans to increase your team's success.
Leaders who don't bother to continuously improve see these same problems come up over and over again:
- Busywork: Employees work on things that don't matter to the company mission or bottom line.
- Volatility: Team goals seem to change with the weather, creating stress and uncertainty.
- Confusion: People don't understand why they are working on certain tasks.
- Unrealistic goals: Goals are too abstract and never accomplished.
- Zero buy‐in: You struggle to get the buy‐in on the initiatives you need, and you don't know why.
Look to see if your team is dealing with any of these common problems and work to nip them in the bud.
#2 OWN THE VISION
The dictionary defines vision as “the act of seeing or the power of seeing.” All‐in leaders create the vision, explain the vision, passionately own the vision, and drive the vision to completion.
In fact, I would say that an all‐in leader has an uncanny ability to envision their team's potential even when things look bleak.
- Vision inspires the team.
- Vision helps teams work through obstacles and move forward on the journey to success.
- Vision gives purpose ...
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