Once you have attained a certain level of performance in your career, you will have the opportunity to become a manager of people. The crazy thing is, just because someone is a top performer in his or her role, this does not mean that this person knows how to lead people. Leadership is challenging. What’s even more challenging is effectively becoming a leader, because this is done by attaining a promotion, which is done by trying to demonstrate leadership skills while not necessarily overseeing the work of other people.
So how do you effectively become a leader? You exercise some coaching! Here are five tips for coaching a team to victory:
So here is your homework assignment: Try to remember the above suggestions and implement them the next time you have a team project assigned to you and your cohorts; and then at the conclusion, get a temperature check from the team to find out if the steps above helped drive the entire team to a victory.
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Shirley Claude is a Business Development Director for Surgent CPA Review. Shirley is a graduate of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and holds a master’s degree in organizational management from the University of Phoenix. Before joining Surgent, Shirley worked in Business Development for an education technology company overseeing East Coast growth.
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