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7 Leadership Strategies To Help You Handle Change
by Kathleen O'Connor
Part 1

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Change before you have to. The external world always demands change and improvement. Beat the market. Create internal mechanisms that force you to make changes long before you have to.
~ Kathleen O'Connor ~

A strong leader is always thinking ahead -- anticipating -- ready with solutions when problems arise. S/he has a finger on the pulse of staff and customers alike and uses that information to grow the department/company.

Here are 7 leadership strategies I include in my coaching sessions with managers and entrepreneurs. They'll help you reach your potential, too.

Strategy #1: Effective leaders master their time

Effective leaders are relentless about clearing items off their to do list. What's more, it helps them control their time.

Once a focused leader decides that what is in front of him/her is important, they will focus and deal with it. If it takes 90 minutes instead of the scheduled 60 minutes, then so be it.

This habit can be frustrating to others, but it makes a major difference in a leader's effectiveness. Critical conversations and transactions are consistently brought to closure. Result? Fewer matters remain unresolved and leaders are free to focus their attention elsewhere.

Strategy #2: Three questions to boost productivity

As the number of knowledge workers continues to grow, it becomes increasingly urgent for managers and leaders to find ways to measure and boost their productivity.

Ask your knowledge workers 3 questions:

** What tasks do you perform?
** What do you believe you should contribute to the organization?
** What prevents you from getting your work done?

Whether they are programmers, editors, surgeons, analysts or urban planners, knowledge workers almost always know the answers to these questions. Find ways to take action based on those answers and productivity will rise.

Strategy #3: Work/life balance -- a leadership issue

In times of uncertainty, employees often put in long, long hours. That leads to burnout. Workers suffer and so does their work.

To ensure that employees' personal time remains personal, take these anti-burnout measures:

** Limit or do away with Friday meetings. Allow your employees to enter weekends free of work-related responsibilities.

** Alter travel weekends. Limit employees' nights away from home.

** Limit technological "tethers." It's difficult to be off the job if staff feels compelled to check voicemail, e-mail, their PDAs and pagers. Ban calls and emails that require a response on weekends, evenings or vacations unless it's an emergency. You can't grow a department/company on a foundation of exhausted staff.

Even in a tough economy, top performers often find new jobs. Don't lose your most valuable resource to stress and burnout.

Strategy #4: Silence is golden

You might be surprised to learn that many leaders' most harmful behavior is adding too much value. This behavior is triggered the moment an executive comes to the senior leader with an idea that s/he thinks is really good. "Great idea!" the leader enthusiastically agrees. But because s/he can't resist, the leader gives "input" about executing the idea.

This may improve the idea by 5 percent, but the incremental increase is drastically offset by as much as 30 percent. Why? The executive who conceived the idea feels a loss of ownership. His/her commitment to execute the idea is substantially weakened.

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Kathleen O'Connor is the owner of the O'Connor Success System which provides professional growth programs for managers and entrepreneurs. To access our free resources, visit our website at O'Connor Success System. You can sign up there for your free 4-part mini-course on communication skills and a free subscription to our monthly e-zine, "The Edge."

O'Connor Success System
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