Seasonal Success: How to refresh your leadership
As the sun stays out a little longer, spring is approaching. The new season can encourage the desire to make changes – a clean sweep (I know, sorry). But that doesn’t have to be limited to windows and baseboards. You can use the metaphor of spring cleaning as a roadmap to reinvigorating your team and how you lead them.
Clean Out the Cobwebs – It’s easy to develop “cobwebs” when we stay in our comfort zones, but spring offers an opportunity to clean up and eliminate outmoded ways of thinking, habits, and processes. On a personal level, it can look like replacing unproductive habits with ones that move you closer to your goals for yourself and your team. On a grander scale, it could look like getting a solid look at your benchmarks before sweeping out old practices that don’t serve the team.
Reflect and Renew – Do your team's goals align with your organization’s vision for the future? Now is the time to reevaluate or eliminate outdated goals, refine them, and make a strategy for achieving them. Investing in yourself and your team may be on that goals list, but it can often be sidelined due to increasing costs and shrinking budgets. Fortunately, training and development can happen anywhere and anytime, thanks to virtual training options – no plane ticket is required.
Get Some Air – Like opening a window, you can use your position to breathe new life into your team by encouraging them to bring new and foundational supporting ideas to the group, suggest process changes based on what has been learned over the last year, or voice dissenting opinions. Being open to and flexible with change shows your team that it can be an opportunity for growth rather than an inconvenience.
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