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Why Every Leader Should Have a Regular Reflection Time

Posted 4 years ago by Richard Lim

Why Every Leader Should Have a Regular Reflection Time

It’s more important than you think!

 

Leaders are a busy lot of people.

We are responsible for guiding our team (or organisation) toward its goals and ensuring its purpose and mission is accomplished. In addition to our primary objectives, we have secondary responsibilities, such as caring for and motivating our team.

Many things demand our attention daily: not only those we’re primarily responsible for but sometimes those we are not directly responsible for. With so many things to deal with, we tend to be very busy most of the time, though some leaders wear “busyness” as a badge of honour!

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3 mindsets that prevent you from leading effectively

Posted 4 years ago by Richard Lim

Three Mindsets that Prevent You from Leading Effectively

Your mindset affects your behaviour!

 

Leadership is not just about skills, it’s also about your mindset.

I learned about leadership, at least initially, mostly by observing leaders in real life and, sometimes, from novels, movies, or television shows. The qualities I observed resonated with me, and I told myself I’d like to be an effective leader like those I have observed.

The problem, though, was that most of those leaders I sought to imitate often seemed perfect. Perhaps they were not actually perfect, but they do seem that way.

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5 key decisions you need to make about your team

Posted 4 years ago by Richard Lim

They affect what your team look like!

The word “Team” means different things to different people.

When I work with team leaders and their teams, I often encounter different notions of what the “team” really is. One team leader may use the word to refer generally to everyone who works under him, while another might refer to a specific group of people.

Even within a team, each member might have a different understanding of what the “team” is; this might even be different from the team leader’s understanding!

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The Most Important Decision of a Leader

Posted 4 years ago by Richard Lim

It affects how you lead!

Leadership involves making decisions.

Getting a team to move towards fulfilling its goals involves numerous decisions.

But right from the get-go, there is one important decision that a leader needs to make. This decision will shape the leader and the team in a profound way. It will affect how he or she leads, how the team interact with the leader, the culture of the team, etc.

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Tips for crafting an effective mission statement

Posted 4 years ago by Richard Lim

It’s about communicating clearly!

Your team’s (or organisation, church, and even personal) mission gives clarity to your direction, informs your strategies and, together with your purpose, forms the basis of all your critical decisions.

The mission statement spells out your mission so that stakeholders (the team leader, team members, partners, target audience, customers, etc.) knows what you do. For yourself and your team, it serves as a reminder to help you stay on course. For others, it helps to differentiate you from other teams or organisations.

As I work with teams during the past 20 years, I often come across mission statements that are either so vague that they don’t tell me anything useful, or are so generic that they could just as well be the mission statement of another team!

These vague or generic mission statements are practically useless.

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