Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

Trust

If the seed of trust is not planted in the beginning, we grow a weed of mistrust and betrayal.  

Shared Leadership

Don't be intimidated by the talents of the other leaders among your team. Allow them to share your leadership. 

Leadership Burnout

If you don't trust the people below you, that's when you can get in trouble by trying to do too much yourself and risk burnout and/or inefficient use of your time.

Leadership

Some leaders take in what they want to hear, but tune out the displeasing notes that they need to hear. 

Leadership

If you're going to lead, you need two things from your followers: trust and respect. Without trust and respect, you'll never be able to lead.

Leadership

Leadership is hard. Whether everything is going well or failing, the rest of the organization will look to you for answers. 

Leadership

To truly achieve something great as a leader, you must be willing to have the hard conversations, no matter how uncomfortable they might be.

Leadership

You can't wait until you've promoted someone into a leadership position to start developing leadership skills. Every day is an opportunity to cultivate leadership qualities from your team, whether they are veterans or brand new to the organization. 

Leadership

Leadership is hard in general, but especially so if you're the only one.

Soliciting Feedback

Ask those who work for you, "What am I doing that feels like interference, or adds no value?" Fearing repercussions, they may at first be hesitant to give direct feedback. If so, be patient. It may take several tries before they trust you enough to open up. Then, act on this feedback.