5 Top Leadership Articles for the Week of January 3rd
Each week I read a number of leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five articles readers found most valuable last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think, too.
Taking a UX Approach for Retaining Your Best Talent by Jill Schiefelbein
In consumer businesses, UX (user experience) is traditionally viewed as a way to analyze and produce experiences that drive consumers toward an end goal. Let’s flip UX on its traditional head. Managers can significantly benefit by viewing UX as an internal measure.
My Comment: Schiefelbein makes the well-founded argument that employees (just like customers and software users) have feelings – and that businesses need to pay attention to them. So much of human behavior results from the systems people work within that her emphasis on content, design, and interaction is invaluable for productivity.
Spend Less Time and be a More Effective Leader by Mike Figliuolo
Once you’ve been in a leadership role, you realize leadership doesn’t magically happen. A leader’s work can be thought of as a service provided to team members. Providing this service takes time and energy; and much like organizations don’t have unlimited financial capital to invest, leaders don’t have unlimited time and energy to invest in leading their teams. So, how do leaders invest their time and get more done?
My Comment: Being an effective leader means being resourceful and effectively managing your time. In this article Figliuolo discusses how to address the ever-present challenge of “infinite need; finite me” with practical time management tips.
10 Ways to Become the Leader others Value by Dan Rockwell
Want to know what it takes to become a leader others value and want to follow? Here’s a hint: where and what you value, matters.
My Comment: In this article, Rockwell quickly and concisely identifies 10 characteristics, qualities and ideals that may help guide your team down the right path and further develop their values.
Questions Every Leader Should Ask by James DaSilva
When productivity is down, morale is floundering and your team has lost its way, do you find yourself asking: why won’t my team perform? How can I motivate them to succeed? You’re not alone. However, it may be time to ask yourself some difficult questions instead.
My Comment: In his article, DaSilva expands upon the powerful idea that how your team is performing and how they’re handling their challenges are not a reflection of them and their work, but of your and yours.
7 Fundamentals for Building Real Trust With Your Team by Karin Hurt
Trust is tricky. It sure looks easy on paper (or a blog post.) But get out in real life, and what seems obvious and easy, suddenly becomes more difficult than securing funding for a corporate hover-craft. The sooner we talk about trust, why it works, and how it breaks down the better.
My Comment: If you struggle with trust (and consequently with everything else related to leading a team) Hurts seven fundamentals are required reading.
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