- Do not be limited to your direct responsibilities in your work. Extend your sphere to enable / facilitate other teams if you have the bandwidth. This will ensure you remain connected to other teams even if they are not direct reportees, grow in your work and in the process be an enabler for others.
- Work closely with your team members to help identify areas where you can help them excel. Be a part of their success.
- Learnt to restrain your frustration and anger. It never helps other than aggravating situation. If faced with a challenging situation where things aren't moving as you expect, think calmly and you will have a way around the problem without souring relationship.
- Ignore small things which you are likely to forget in due course of time. Do not attach too much importance to trivial things and loose your sleep.
- Good communication is very important for a leader. Before any discussion, try to role play and anticipate the mind of the person with whom you are going to converse and plan your responses accordingly. People do not like to converse with colleagues who are shallow in their discussion points.
- Its also important to ensure that communication brings out the right meaning as was meant to be communicated.
- Know the processes well and make sure you adhere to them. A good leader is expected to follow processes or improve upon them.
- Be always prepared for a meeting well before hand with concrete points and responses to possible questions that may get asked.
- If you do not get criticised in your profession it will mean that your profession is not important enough. In any path of life, if you get accolades be also prepared for brickbats. It comes with the package.
- Learn to back your instincts. Always formulate an opinion regarding the things around you.
"....The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind...."
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