It’s important as a leader to constantly be learning and improving your skills. One way to do this is to leverage the latest research in psychology to better understand your leadership.
Here are 5 psychology tricks that you can steal to improve your leadership:
Use the power of positive reinforcement: Positive reinforcement is a powerful tool for influencing your own behavior. By rewarding yourself for your positive actions and efforts. As a leader, you can encourage yourself to continue performing at your best.
Set clear goals and expectations: Setting clear goals and expectations helps to give yourself a sense of purpose and direction. As a leader, this can help to increase your own motivation and focus, leading to better results.
Utilize the power of social proof: Social proof is the idea that people are more likely to do something if they see others doing it. As a leader, you can leverage this principle by setting a positive example for yourself to follow.
Practice active listening: Active listening involves paying full attention to others and showing them that you value their opinions and ideas. As a leader, this can help you to build trust and improve communication with others.
Use the power of visualization: Visualization is a powerful tool for helping people achieve their goals. As a leader, encourage yourself to visualize your own success and the steps you need to take to get there. This can help to increase your own motivation and focus.
These tricks and techniques can help foster a more positive team culture that lead to better results.
Lead From Within: The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.
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The Leadership Gap
What Gets Between You and Your Greatness
After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.
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Of Lolly’s many awards and accolades, Lolly was designated a Top-50 Leadership and Management Expert by Inc. magazine. Huffington Post honored Lolly with the title of The Most Inspiring Woman in the World. Her writing has appeared in HBR, Inc.com, Fast Company (Ask The Expert), Huffington Post, and Psychology Today, and others. Her newest book, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness has become a national bestseller.