LEAD Your Team: 4 Team Leadership Priorities

Here is a very simple model of four team leadership priorities - which spell out LEAD. Can you guess what they are?
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This video is part of course module number 4.3.3
Program 4: Managing & Leading Groups
Course 3: Teams
Section 3: Team Leadership
Other videos in this section include:
- Team Leadership and the Tuckman Group Development Stages • Team Leadership and th...
- Servant Leadership: Leading Your Team in the Tuckman Performing Stage • Servant Leadership: Le...
- John Adair's Action Centered Leadership • Team Leadership: What ...
- Four Quadrants of Team Leadership • Four Quadrants of Team...
- Team Leadership Continuum • What is the Team Leade...
- Daniel Goleman’s 6 Leadership Styles for Team Leaders • Daniel Goleman's 6 Lea...
- Handling Team Problems • Team Leadership: Handl...
LESSON NOTES
The 4 team leadership priorities that spell out LEAD are:
Listening
Perhaps the primary communication skill. You need to pay attention to what your team members and stakeholders want and need to tell you.
We have a video on listening in our series on Negotiation: • Listening Skills - Neg...
Encouraging
You are there for your team. So, you need to guide, support, and motivate them to perform at their best.
o Supporting
o Recognizing
o Praising
o Rewarding
We have a whole course on Motivation, so check out the playlist: • Motivation
Asserting
Fundamentally, a manager is paid to deliver your operations. This means you equally need to make things happen, give instructions, and speak without fear.
We have a series of videos on assertiveness in our course on Personal Impact: • Personal Impact
Deciding
Management is a series of choices. Each one opens up and shuts down opportunity. You have to figure out what is right, and set your team’s priorities.
Good quality decisions course coming
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1. The LEAD framework sets out four priorities as a team leader. Inventory your performance against these team leadership behaviors. How well are you performing? Where are your strong and weak points? (4 MC CPD Points)
2. What changes do you need to make? (2 MC CPD Points)
3. Make those changes and monitor your performance and the outcomes your choices have on your team's performance for two weeks. Reflect on what you learn and what your next priorities are. (3 MC CPD Points)
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Sometimes, you can't beat a great acronym to help you remember your priorities. And this is one of the best. As a leader, your job is to L.E.A.D. Thank you for watching - please do like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell.

[@BasicFilmmaker]

More awesome. Thanks!

[@ManagementCourses]

More to come!

[@alicecampbell3131]

Loved that the acronym flowed perfectly -- and ALL were excellent points. You anticipated my question about "Decision-making;" I'll be looking out for that. Thank you for the clear distillation of the concepts AND the links to other videos!

[@ManagementCourses]

You're very welcome, Alice.

[@LetsCelebrateTV]

Asserting can be my challenge in a technical group where there are many players.

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If they are all skilled and motivated, you may not need to very often.