FranklinCovey Leadership Tips
FranklinCovey Leadership Tips are designed to help new and existing leaders to succeed in their roles. This bite-sized content is ideal for leaders who don't have the time for long-form content, but who still want to develop their skills and improve.
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Identify The Wildly Important Goals (WIGs)
Does everyone know the team’s top two or three priorities (WIGs) and how they will align their efforts to achieve them?
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Create Vision
Have you articulated an inspiring vision so your people choose to volunteer their best?
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Make Goals Achievable
We’re not advocating goals that are easy to reach. Set a goal that challenges the team to rise to their highest level of performance but not beyond it.
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Align Actions with the Wildly Important Goals
Are the efforts of your team members moving your goals forward? How can you make it easier for them to do so?
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Ensure Your Systems Support Your Mission
Effective leaders create systems that make it easier to achieve results. When was the last time you did a “systems check”?
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8 Ways to Boost Your Team's Commitment to Goals
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Deliver Results
Are you and your team delivering activities instead of results? Are the results the right ones?
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Hold Regular 1-on-1s
What’s preventing you from holding 1-on-1s with each of your team members?
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Protect Your Team Against Urgencies
How will you find the courage to keep your team focused on what is most important, including saying no to some of your own best ideas?
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Coach Continuously
Do you see every interaction with team members as an opportunity to build confidence and develop potential?
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Show Loyalty
When was the last time you gossiped or disparaged someone behind their back?
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Balance Courage and Consideration
Do your wins come at the expense of others? Or do you allow others to win at your expense?
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Make High-Value Decisions
Do you dedicate your time to the activities that will yield the most impactful results on the organization and your team’s mission?
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Celebrate Wins
Do you spend as much time celebrating the achievement of goals as you do setting them?
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Check Your Paradigms
Our paradigms are perhaps the most powerful tools we have in how we interact with others.
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Place the Right People in the Right Roles
How many people on your team are in the right role? Do you need to make adjustments?
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Model Work/Life Balance
If paparazzi had followed you last week, would they have seen a balance of activities at work and outside of work? What’s the impact?
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Make and Keep Commitments
Are you damaging your credibility through too many unfulfilled commitments? Are you a serial over-committer?
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Listen First
Listening often requires a generous gift of time and attention to forget about your own needs and focus intently on someone else’s.
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Demonstrate Humility
Has your lack of humility ever limited your perspective or lessened your influence as a leader? Would you even know if it had?
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Reinforce What's Important
Positive feedback is an important way to reinforce great work and build a culture where people feel respected and appreciated. Whereas Instructive feedback is essential for helping improve performance
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