Why Executive Leaders Set Clear Objectives
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Why Executive Leaders Set Clear Objectives

BySonya Shelton

Clarity is an important factor to the success of a leader, a team and an organization. If people aren’t clear about their role and what they’re supposed to be doing every day, they will swirl and become less and less effective. To progress toward your vision, you need a clear roadmap and that includes objectives….

Setting Priorities is Key to Leadership Success
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Setting Priorities is Key to Leadership Success

BySonya Shelton

Distractions can tempt us every day. Other people have their own agendas for our time and attention. We might have the best intentions of working on our priorities, but other things get in the way. We may even become so ambitious that we create a long list of priorities, which means we don’t really have…

How Well Do You Know Yourself?
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How Well Do You Know Yourself?

BySonya Shelton

Great leaders understand who they are and where they stand. They also know that they don’t know everything. You may think you already know yourself. But real knowing is understanding that we don’t know everything. Think about the leaders you admire who have achieved great things and made a difference in some way. To step…

Set Clear Expectations for Best Results
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Set Clear Expectations for Best Results

BySonya Shelton

While clear communication is important in everything you do as a leader, one aspect that deserves special attention is setting expectations. It’s an area many executives take for granted when they assume people understand what’s expected or when they think they don’t need to explicitly communicate expectations. Your role as a leader is to set…

When Executives Value Their Time, Others Will Too
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When Executives Value Their Time,
Others Will Too

BySonya Shelton

If you don’t value your time, no one else will value it either. As a leader, it’s important to be accessible, but you also need others to respect your time. When you have set your priorities, the majority of your time should be spent on them. Of course, unexpected things come up that require our…