CLI Leadership Toolkit A Toolkit for teams that want to outperform themselves This Toolkit includes: What Leaders do Leading is Different than Managing Some Useful Leadership Skills Start-Stop-Continue: A Personal Leadership Action Plan

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CLI Leadership Toolkit
A T o o l k i t f o r t e a m s t h a t w a n t t o o u t p e r f o r m
t h e m s e l v e s
This Toolkit includes:
 What Leaders do
 Leading is Different than
Managing
 Some Useful Leadership Skills
 Start-Stop-Continue: A Personal Leadership Action Plan
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What Leaders Do
Think about leaders as the guiding force in an organization.
Leaders create the vision & strategy that allow an organization to thrive.
They set the direction and pace, moving the organization forward.
Communicating & setting direction is job one for leaders in any
organization regardless of size. Motivating others to follow and
aligning followers to reach mutual goals gives leaders a different
role than that of managers.
Leading is Different than Managing
The Key Complimentary Role of Managers
The role of effective managers is to consider how to organize the complex
infrastructure of people, technology and goals, and make them work together
efficiently. Through problem solving, effective decision making and daily
management of tasks, a manager carries out what the leader has created.
Questions to ponder:
• What is the mix of leaders vs. managers in your organization?
• Is the balance tipped in one direction? Is that useful to your organization?
• How can the mix be improved?
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Some Useful Leadership Skills
Picture a leader that you admire. Maybe someone that you
know personally. Someone who led you to extraordinary heights
or new places. What did this person do right?
• What qualities do you have that can help you become a
stand-out leader?
• What qualities do you have that could get in the way of leading
effectively?
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Personal Leadership Action Plan
To increase your effectiveness as a leader, what could you start,
stop and continue to do to optimize your leadership impact?
• Start
• Stop
• Continue
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