Five Tips for Accelerated Leadership Success

By Beth Armknecht Miller, President and Executive Coach, Executive Velocity Inc

1. Focus on your top performers. What message do you send your ‘A’ players when you are spending more time working with your ‘C’ players?

2. Make leadership development a continuous process, and not an annual event. Coaching is one method of providing on-going interaction and follow-up with each member of your staff, leading to positive change in their behavior.

3. Before choosing a business coach, be clear about your reasons and goals for being coached. Make sure these goals are aligned with your company’s goals.

4. As a leader, focus on asking good questions which lead employees to suggest a solution to a challenging problem. Once invested in the process, they will then take ownership in executing the solution.

5. Adapt your leadership style to each person’s needs. Every employee has their own unique communication and learning style as well as their preferred way of being motivated.