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Conquering The Common Fears of Leadership
Speaking
As a leader within an organization, one of the things you should be doing the most is communicating with your team. If you are unable to do this, you cannot expect your team to follow you wholeheartedly.
Take every opportunity you can to speak in front of audiences. The more you do it, the more confident you will be.
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Criticism
As a leader, your shortcomings will be highlighted more than your strengths.
Criticism is something you should expect and get used to. Face the fear head on by regularly requesting anonymous feedback from your team.
Failure
Driven people hate failure, even though failure is inevitable. You do not become a successful leader without having experienced failure along the way.
When you make mistakes, own them and let the team know what you are going to do to fix them.
Making Decisions
Decision-making is critical for business leadership. The ability to learn how to make good decisions in highly chaotic environments can give you the tools necessary to take your business to the next level.
Be prepared, use the information at hand, and make the best possible decisions you can. Adjust quickly if you miss the mark.
Speaking
As a leader within an organization, one of the things you should be doing the most is communicating with your team. If you are unable to do this, you cannot expect your team to follow you wholeheartedly.
Take every opportunity you can to speak in front of audiences. The more you do it, the more confident you will be.
Responsibility
With much power comes much responsibility. Your first priority is to your team. If you put them first, all the rest will fall into place.
Working together as a team will lighten the burden of responsibility.
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Thinking before speaking and acting
- Make sure that you speak up when you have something important to say.
- Take advantage of your ability to observe other people, the environment you’re in and the energy flow in the room.
- People will pay more attention to what you say when you do speak up.
- You probably have the ability to study things better and faster, so when you do say something make sure that it’s an eye-opener.
- People will trust you more and thus you’ll have access to more privileged information.
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