a) Continue to show leadership attributes in your weekly one-on-one meeting with your manager including: taking lead in your one-on-one management meeting agenda; initiating your performance discussion in the 1-on-1 manager meeting; initiating your career path and indivdual development goals in your one-on-one manager meetings; reporting status on your management self-study courses, etc.
b) Continue to speak in clear, direct terms inregards to vision/goals, expected results that are aligned with the company’s bottom line, and contingency plans/risk management. The critical responsible for any leader or manager is to clearly articulate the company vision and goals to their staff. Then verifying that everyone on the team truly understand their roles in meeting those objectives. You should be illustrating these same traits in every interaction.
c) How you do anything – is how you do everything. Be a leader (or example to others) in everything that you do.
2) What are three things you can do in the long term?
3) What are three major mistakes people make when trying to climb the corporate ladder.
c) Forcing, pleading, persuading people to follow you. Leaders’ followers (or fanbase) already are aligned with the leader’s vision, mission and goals. Since the followers’ already agree with the direction and ultimate goal and the leader already trusts in his/her team’s talent, skill and craft, all the leader has to do is provide a clear direction to his crew.
I go into detail in the Professional Development Toolkit and Get that Well-Deserved Raise online course.
Check out the other online courses on this topic:
- Check out the 12 Tips for Realistic Scheduling
- Check out the 10 Tips for Telecommuters
- Check out the 10 Career Boosting Resolution
- Check out the 10 Hidden Time Waster
- Check out the Get That Well-Deserved Raise
- Check out the Professional Development Toolkit
- Check out the It’s a SNAP – Social Networking Accelerated Process for business networking
- Check out Leveraging Links – Use your current contacts to get that skip-level promotion