The ability to learn and apply knowledge quickly and effectively is directly related to your ability to earn.
- always know your value by proactively creating your own worth -
- learn the standard -
learn what is expected and required of you and your team,
learn to do those things consistently to standard, and
- quickly -
Become a person of exceptional character, ability, and self-discipline.
The first person you must learn to lead and inspire towards improvement is yourself.
Evaluate yourself using the 14 Leadership Traits and 11 Principles and set into action the resources, time, courses, materials, and activities needed to improve weak areas. Continuously find high-caliber peers and mentors. Seek honest and objective feedback on progress and opportunities for improvement.
Gain the highest competencies in your duties, organization, and field.
Knowing what your boss needs, when, and why will make you useful and helpful and will also prevent micromanaging from superiors.
- Learn the jobs of those above and around you and be capable of supporting or doing them well.
Teams achieve goals by establishing challenging objectives and expectations, holding to performance standards, time frames, and training others to manage their own duties and tasks to standards. Effective leadership inspires individuals to seek and take responsibility for their tasks and roles in the process to ensure the highest team performance.
Recognize the talents and capabilities of your people and develop a purpose for yourself and them.
Knowing your people is critical to effective communication. Knowing how each person responds to communication styles, methods, and new information will improve clarity and mutual understanding of topics. This principle applies to your peers, bosses, customers, and suppliers as well.
Get to know the people you work with and learn their expectations for your roles and duties.
Find the most knowledgeable people and learn from them. Learn your job, and how to do it well from people who already do the job well.
Identify the most important tasks and critical requirements of your roles and duties and prioritize those in both learning and doing very well. Dependability and capability in teams are essential to success.
The 14 Leadership Traits serve as the standards and measures of a leader’s character and ability to lead others both fairly and effectively. These are the required qualities and behaviors for high-caliber followers and leaders.
Memorize these Traits and their meanings using the acronym:
JJ-DID-TIE-BUCKLE.
Justice, Judgement, Dependability, Initiative, Decisiveness, Tact, Integrity, Enthusiasm, Bearing, Unselfishness, Courage, Knowledge, Loyalty, Endurance.
Observe the Standard
Learn & Apply the Standard
Improve to the highest standard.
Everyone’s job is to perform their duties and responsibilities so well and dependably that their bosses, teammates, subordinates, and customers need not get involved in their business. This is the standard. Become the standard.
1. Knowledge & Judgement: How many tasks, jobs, roles, and problems can each person do well and solve effectively without assistance, supervision or error?
2. Dependability & Integrity: How consistent and reliable is each person with their attendance, attitude, teamwork, and transparency on issues? Are they useful and helpful to others and do they contribute an acceptable quantity and quality of work, in the time provided?
3. Initiative & Enthusiasm: How willing and enthusiastic is each person about solving problems immediately as well as learning and taking on new tasks, jobs, and responsibilities?
Essential Principles and Traits of Leadership. 80 pages, 20,081 words.
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