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Leadership - 6 Tips to Achieve Your Goals By Duncan Brodie
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| Monday, December 15, 2008 |
Your role as a leader and your success is judged on your ability to produce results or achieve your goals. So what can you do to maximize the chances of achieving your goals?
Tip 1: Be clear about the
This may seem like stating the obvious, but the reality is that leaders are sometimes vague when it comes to goals. Clear objectives, on the other hand are specific and measurable. You can say categorically whether they were achieved or not.
Tip 2: Take calculated risks
Nobody said the leader was easy. You must be ready and willing to take action again and again. Taking action requires you to take calculated risks after weighing the advantages and disadvantages.
Tip 3: Be prepared to fail
All the most successful leaders are ready to failure. They prefer to say they have tried rather than sit and do nothing. Unless you are prepared to fail, you procrastinate, put things off and get stuck where you are now.
Tip 4: The break
You may have an overall objective to increase market share or improve cash flows by a determined time. To achieve this goal, you'll need to take a number of measures to achieve the overall objective. Use these interim measures to create sub-goals.
Tip 5: Surround yourself with good people
No matter how good you are individually you have, in the same way as everyone else, areas of strength and areas of weakness. Surround yourself with people who complement what you are doing well and can help you achieve the goals.
Tip 6: Acknowledge your accomplishments
In the desire to reach the end objectives, it is too easy to lose sight of your achievements along the way. Make a point of celebrating the achievements along the way.
Bottom line-achievement of goals is extremely rewarding and there are no guarantees. So what do you have to do to achieve your goals?
Duncan Brodie objectives and achievements (G & A) works with individuals, teams and organizations develop their management and leadership capacity.
With 25 years experience in a wide range of sectors, he understands first-hand the real challenges of management and leadership in business demanding.
You can subscribe to his free online newsletter to http://www.goalsandachievements.co.uk/ |
posted by neptunus @ 8:49 PM
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