By Beth Porter, Four Corners Broadcasting Happy New Year! Out with the old, in with the new! Before we all go charging into 2024 with new ideas about leadership and teamwork, let’s take a moment to reflect on the year just past. Cataloging our triumphs…and examining our defeats…reinforces our strengths and informs our weaknesses. There is great value in revisiting those leadership attributes that have led to success. Instead of starting with a clean slate, let’s build on our past achievements, our skills and knowledge base, our hard-won wisdom. As you look back on 2023, what were the major projects or improvements you and your team tackled this past year? Which were successful? Take a deep dive to identify the whys of those successes. Add your own success qualifiers to fully understand what your team and you as a leader bring to the table for 2024. Here are some items to get you started:
What were the leadership highlights?
Now take the time to evaluate the team. What skills or attributes did each team member bring to the project that led to success? How could they work better together? If you need to add to the team, either to grow it or to replace someone, what are the key skills and personality traits you want to fill that position with regards to the rest of the team? The results of this deep dive give you a template for future projects. Of course, areas that need improvement probably came to mind during this exercise. Note those as well. Think about the team you have going forward. Which of their skills are underutilized? Can an individual or the team as a whole benefit from new resources? Training? Shifting their position or responsibilities? If, like so many of us, you need to fill a position, what are the skill or personality gaps? This immersive review gives you an idea of the areas you need to improve upon, and as an added bonus, gives you a dynamic basis for individual team member reviews. Before tackling how to improve in the coming year, give yourself the time and space to appreciate everything you are. This has become my morning mantra, paraphrased from “Undeniably Fierce Morning Manifesto” by Jennifer Ransaw Smith, founder of Personal Elevation Lab: Bring your full self to the world. Think of your stories. The countless wins. Those dues you’ve already paid. You are undeniably fierce! There is no one else who has the exact mixture of talent, skills, education, experience, creativity, successes, failures, background, life perspective or je ne sais quoi. You are an undeniable asset to every team, project and organization. Know your worth and except nothing less from the universe! Looking for an immersive experience in leadership development or to develop leadership skills for a team member? Consider Leadership La Plata this year. Check out www.LeadershipLaPlata.org for more information. Beth Porter is the Senior Marketing Consultant with Four Corners Broadcasting and an alumni of Leadership La Plata Class of 2015-2016. Monthly Sponsor:
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