If You Say Yes to Any of These 3 Questions, Your Leadership Skills Are Way Better Than Those of Most Managers by Marcel Schwantes
Ever worked for a leader who was so inspiring and gifted, your memories of how he or she took care of the team remain vivid to this day?
Chances are, the reason you still talk about this leader from years past is because of how he or she made you feel.
Renowned poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou infamously quipped, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
3 questions to assess your leadership skills
Leadership is a matter of the head and the heart–it’s about results and relationships. So, if you’re in a leadership role now or aspiring to one, the journey toward leadership greatness never ends. But it does have a starting point.
And sometimes the beginning of the journey requires some tough questions you need to ask yourself to raise your own bar. Can you answer yes to any — and hopefully all — of these?
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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