4 Ways to Supercharge Your Leadership Effectiveness - Your Practice Ain’t Perfect - Joe Mull

Описание: In this episode of Your Practice Ain’t Perfect, we’re talking about 4 Ways to Supercharge Your Leadership Effectiveness.

Joe Mull, M.Ed is a practice manager leadership trainer and keynote speaker who works with healthcare organizations that want their practice leaders to engage, inspire, and succeed. As an expert in employee engagement and healthcare leadership development, Joe gives physicians and managers the skills and tools they need to engineer teams that work hard, get along, and wow patients. After more than a decade in healthcare, Joe knows that when leaders develop skills related to leadership, communication, and teambuilding, they can stop putting fires out every day and prevent them from sparking in the first place. Bring Joe in to keynote your conference, design and facilitate a retreat, or beef up your practice leader training. For more info or to book Joe now visit www.joemull.com.

"To supercharge your leadership effectiveness, I recommend the following:

Number One: Take a cold-blooded inventory of yourself.
I tell audiences all the time that you will be wildly successful as a leader whenever you get the chance to work with people who are just like you. Sadly, most people aren’t though and one of the things that we have to know to be effective, is that leaders have to adjust their style and approach at times to meet people where they’re at. So you will be well positioned to do this with greater ease if you can know and name some specifics about your own style and where it works for you and against you. So ask yourself: How do others around you experience your style and approach? What behaviors that leaders have to use to be successful will you have to intentionally reach for because they don’t occur organically for you? Or here’s one: What do good bosses do regularly that you don’t? Or put another way: When it comes to leading people, what are you bad at? Leadership begins with self-awareness, which is why there are a variety of reputable assessments that can help you begin understanding yourself in a deeper way. Instruments like the MBTI, DiSC assessment, and StrengthsFinders can all give you insight and a vocabulary to understand your own hard wiring and specific ways to flex your style to be more successful.

Number Two: Find a mentor.
A mentor is not a coach. It’s someone you respect that you’ve chosen to learn from, emulate, and communicate with about your growth. Also, a mentor is typically someone that does not have responsibility for your performance at work. Identify someone who fits this description and ask them if they will serve as your mentor. When making this request though, be specific. Simply asking someone to be a mentor is ambiguous. The person you approach may hesitate due to a lack of understanding of the role or the time commitment. So explain the reasons you are approaching them and be specific about what you’re asking for, like this: “Hey, I really respect your knowledge and experience. Can we have coffee once every 2-3 months so I can get your advice or perspective?"

Third: Read! Read! Read!
When you look at the research on the daily habits of the most successful people in any industry, two themes emerge: These folks make time every day for exercise, and they make time to READ. Look, leadership has been and will continue to be the #1 book sales category in the U.S. for a reason. Those people who achieve the highest level of success as leaders commit to continual learning. They make time at the beginning and end of each day, maybe even if it’s just 20 minutes here and there, to absorb books, articles, blogs, videos, e-courses, and more. They continue pushing the boundaries of their knowledge and insight because they know that learning never ends. So try getting up 30 minutes earlier, grabbing a book, and hoping on the treadmill. It’s what the best do, and you should, too, if you want to play in the big leagues.

Lastly, Ask “What don’t I know?”
Think about that question for a moment: “What don’t I know?” is an incredibly powerful question that ensures intellectual humility. KNOW that there’s a lot you DON’T KNOW. Challenge yourself to use this question daily. Imagine how your perspective might be changed when asking this question while dealing with a difficult customer or assuming new responsibilities at work. Reaching for the information or perspective that is unseen is a key part of critical thinking. It also reduces some of the flawed, assumptive thinking and snap judgments psychology tells us we all are prone to. This question is one you’ll never fully answer, but it can result in more informed, mature, balanced approaches. Keep this question at the ready; it’s useful every day."

Joe Mull- Speaker, Author, Trainer
www.joemull.com
Twitter:@joemull77