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Leading a Misleader
How to Lead A Misleader Understanding what great leaders know can vastly improve your leadership skills.
Every organization has misleaders, challenging employees who steer the team in the wrong direction. Great Leaders Know how to lead a misleader.
Why Misleaders Lead
Unrecognized and underutilized leadership skills can cause misleaders to unknowingly pull in the wrong direction. Misleaders leading cause turbulence and wasted effort, pulling focus from the mission. Leaders must align them. By understanding what great leaders know, you can better manage these individuals.
I came to a new location to lead the team and recognized a misleader in our ranks, disrupting work processes. Their approach rubbed everyone else the wrong way. Intelligent, outspoken and capable misleaders seem like someone we should follow. Effective leaders improve performance by harnessing the ability of all team members.
Leading a Misleader
I assigned our misleader with leading the safety team were their keen eye, intelligence, and ability to say what was wrong were strengths. It worked. injury rates dropped, which peers appreciated and recognized the misleader for and the work place improved. Our misleader evolved misleader to leader! By helping them find the right role, I applied what great leaders know about leadership. My task was to align their superpowers to help pull the team in the right direction,
Helping the challenging leader find the right seat on the bus is a successful way to re-direct misleader energy. At times, we all mislead, detract, and oppose the direction of the boss. Great Leaders Know seeking change or greater understanding will help them align with their personal mission. This is part of what great leaders understand well.
Great Leaders Know– How to Lead A Misleader
Ignoring a misleader is a misstep. A misleader will continue to pull in the wrong direction, great leaders take immediate action.
Assign misleaders an aligned leadership role to harness their natural leadership ability in a supportive way.
Utilize misleaders skills as an advantage, something that every great leader should know.
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Long work to do list? Start with One
What Great Leaders Know- Start With One
Facing a long work to-do list? Start with one task to make progress and stay productive. When dealing with a long work to-do list, start with one task at a time.
From 50 things to do to 1
My wife taught me a very valuable lesson to help me in a time of great frustration. I had started a new job and inherited many, many operational issues. Directing 115 front line employees alone was a ridiculous situation and working long hours didn’t help. While I worked on finding another job, I made a list of important things to do. I stopped writing when I reached 50! Frustrated mounted as day after day, I attacked my list, but never made any progress. Amy convinced me to take a different approach- start with one thing from the long work to-do list and when you can get one thing done, expand your list to two and so on.
A long work to-do list can be overwhelming; start with one task at a time to manage stress effectively. I went back to work the next day fixing my 1 issue- payroll. Having improved the payroll process, I moved on and attacked the work schedule. The other things I simply let go until I could get to them, which was hard, but necessary.
Take the Pressure Off
Sticking with the 1 thing approach lifted the weight of the world from my shoulders and I enjoyed my job again because I was doing my best and I could only do what I could do in that circumstance. What I did not expect was our team performing better. But fixing my most important issue was fixing everyone’s most important issue. Everyone benefitted.
Facing overwhelming challenges, like trying to manage 115 employees alone, all we can do is our best. So, act accordingly. Thanks Amy!
What Great Leaders Know- Start with One
Managing a long work to-do list? Start with one priority first.
When we try to do too much we accomplish nothing
Prioritize your actions
Take advice from the wise people you know
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https://whatgreatleadersknow.com
https://www.liquidplanner.com/blog/how-to-prioritize-work-when-everythings-1/