5 Low-Cost Tips To Develop Leadership Skills

Adriane E. Jolly“The Marketing Maven”

Tip #1 Find out how you’re showing up as a leader. Know what others think of your skills and behaviors. Ask the people around you for input… Ask Questions Like:How are they experiencing your leadership? What’s working for them? What’s not working? How do they feel about your ability to guide the team in the right direction? What suggestions do your colleagues have for taking your skills to the next level? Listen carefully to the input, then reflect on your own leadership and use the feedback to get better?

Tip #2 Add something new to your game. You need to do more than just leverage your strengths and minimize your current weaknesses. Continually add new elements to your leadership toolkit--After all, the leader

who does not seek growth is destined to stay at their current level or even fall behind.

Do you have a specific plan for adding new skills? In what areas do you need to focus? How about adding some new leadership techniques like coaching, leading

change, fostering innovation or broadening your peer leadership? What about creating some time for yourself by adapting some new time

management skills?This would give you time to actually think and reflect, which might lead to even more ideas for leadership development.

Tip #3 Get curious about the world around you—Think outside the box…

Branch out and expand your horizons. Developing yourself as a leader also means stretching your point of view

How well are you staying up with new developments in your field?

Do you have a firm grasp of your organization’s strategy?

Do you know what people do in other parts of the company?

How about your competitors – do you know what they’re up to?

What about looking beyond your industry – what’s happening in organizations that look nothing like yours? What can you learn from them?

Tip #4 Step out of your comfort zone.

Become more proactive

What about joining a professional network, or improving your speaking and presentation skills? Do you have trouble admitting mistakes, or seeing things from another perspective? You will gain a lot by stepping outside your comfort zone and adapting different leadership behaviors. Pick out the one thing that you’ve always avoided as a leader, and bring it inside your core set of skills.

Tip #5 It’s not about you.

Leadership is about the people you lead… it’s not about you. The question to ask yourself: Is this how you’re looking at leadership? Are you spending your time on the right big things, and is one of those things people development? Are you going out of your way to raise the profile of your team members?

How about holding a webinar to newbies in the insustry? Find ways to “give away” your knowledge and expertise.

What is your plan for succession – how are you preparing the leader who will come behind you?

These are the questions that will help you make the transition from ‘it’s about me’ to ‘it’s about others.’

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