It is proven that become a leader is a good point to start embarking your way to become a manager although it is not the only way. Accumulating trust from your colleagues, subordinates, friends, family, people around you, get followed and be a good model for them. If a manager is not your goal, or even if you have been on executive board already, it is still good to maintain and keep your leadership influence to your follower strengthen.
Here are savvy tips for new leader:
Personal differences are leadership assets in this context.
Have the self-knowledge to realize what makes you different and to make your differences work in your new context.
Sharpen your situation-sensing antennae.
Try to be sensitive to which way the wind is blowing.
Don’t get too close too quickly.
It’s tempting to become one of the gang "a friend who happens to be the boss" but effective leaders have to manage the distance between themselves and their followers.
Take symbolic actions.
Small improvements can make a vast difference in the lives and performance of followers.
Create a compelling narrative.
Bring your story alive through rich examples, personal experience, analogies and stories.
Create positive pressure.
Talk about your market share and competitors.
Reveal weaknesses after revealing your strengths.
Effective leaders reveal themselves as being human.
Conform enough to connect.
An organization cannot be changed overnight. Understand the new culture and context.
Find sources of honest feedback.
It is lonely at the top. Cultivate safe, critical and true information and feedback.
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