How to Lead Your Team by Alicia Hill

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Alicia Hill is CEO of ACG Brand Management LLC, A Brand value-focused company. I create and enhance valuable Brands for individuals and companies through various channels: resume writing, interview prep, professional brand consulting, leadership training, customer experience training, as well as brand and culture creation/enhancements.

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Leadership – How to lead people

Five ways to lead:

  • Create Safety 

    • No judgment zone and truly listen. Open transparency fosters an open communication culture.

    • Integrating information from other sources to evaluate alternatives and make effective decisions.

  • Work Together

    • Cocreate, Trust, Communicate, Be Open

    • Encourage collaboration and serve your team by empowering them to think the unthinkable.

  • Claim Value

    • Know what you stand for 

    • Have non-negotiables

  • Own Your Impact

    • Personal accountability, own your action, be self-aware

    • Bring energy to the room, do not drain energy from the room

  • Dare Not to Know 

    • Remember you are human. You are vulnerable. You don’t know it all.

    • Manage your brand, not your appearance.

All leaders have followers: Look at some key behaviors that show strong leadership and ask yourself what type of shadow am I casting?

Make emotional connections

Set Stretch Goals

Set A Clear Vision

Communicate clearly and often 

Continuously Innovate

Collaborative internally and externally

Take initiative; lead the pack

Professionally Develop others

Here are a few ways to ensure that your team isn’t demotivated or suffering from the Great Resignation theory.

Create and maintain a consistently positive culture, one that isn’t toxic. 

Recognize employees and ensure job security

Promote work-life integration. Aligning your career and personal life when possible is key. Work-life balance is not consistent.

Ask questions to ensure the employee’s role aligns with their strengths.

Ensure that your employees' voice is heard especially during change.

Celebrate small wins. 

Practice empathy

Have flexibility, give autonomy

I want to leave you with a challenge to set the expectations for your team.

Challenge:

Clearly Define, communicate, and emphasize goals. Ask yourself, did I provide clarity, did I get buy-in, and are the goals attainable.

Provide the objectives and set the expectations as early as possible and revisit them

Hold your team accountable equally and follow up

Tell stories about employee success, feedback is meaningful

Ensure that every goal is measurable

Document, Document, Document


Learn more about Alicia at www.acareergirl.com Twitter: AliciaA_C_G_
Instagram: acgbrandmgmt

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