MTP Leadership: Developing Leadership

Leadership Pearls

It's always show time.
Meetings: Always have an agenda and anticipated outcomes for meetings, a time keeper, and someone to take minutes—preferably not the person who leads the meeting.
Have a clearly stated and transparent mission.
Have a clearly stated business plan with definable benchmarks to help review progress.
Give feedback to team members often and frequently.
When giving feedback, start with the positive, use examples rather than feelings.
Practice listening—don't interrupt, paraphrase, summarize, clarify.
Balance advocacy with inquiry.
Get the right people on board and the wrong ones off.
Make sure that you get all the information to make a decision and it is not filtered.
Sleep on important decisions.
Never ascribe to villainy what can be accounted for by ineptitude.
Communicate effectively. Make sure that directions are understood.

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