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Outline your goalsNo matter your story, outline your goals – and write them down.

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What can you improve?Consider taking a variety of professional assessments and personality tests to assess where you’re at.

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Talk to your teamYou team has a wealth of information on you as a leader, information that can help you improve.

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Get organizedOne of the reasons leaders are ineffective is because they’re all over the place.

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Take leadership coursesCourses can help. There are tons of online courses that you can take at your own pace.

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Read management booksBooks transport you outside of yourself, and allow you to look at your situation from new perspectives.

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Learn how to listenThere are five aspects of good listening– receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating, and responding.

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Practice praising and rewardingTo be a good leader, you have to give feedback to your employees, especially praise and rewards.

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Find a mentor or coachIt can be difficult to accurately assess your own leadership skills. That’s why many turn to executive coaches, mentors, and others they can trust.

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Learn how to effectively communicate with anyoneEffective communication is one of the most important parts of leadership, but as humans, we’re different, and we respond to different styles.

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Be more transparentAs a leader, you should embrace it with your staff.

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Create a feedback systemIt’s great that you’ve invested so much in becoming a better leader, but you have to continually go back to your people to find out how you’re doing.

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