49: Six Ways to Lead People Without a Formal Title
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2012
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Almost all of us are put into leadership roles where we need to influence people that we can’t bark orders to. It’s essential for all of us to learn how to lead without a formal title. In this episode, I explore 6 things you can do to lead others outside of title and position that will create better results for both of you.
1) Find out what’s important to people – and then help them get it
- Appreciate the past
- Understand the present
- Picture the future
- Identify passions
- ARTICLE LINK: 4 Ways to Prepare Your Team to See The Future
2) Go out of your way to recognize people
- Write thank you notes – I write at least 1-2 each week
- Do everyone possible to share people’s name is a positive way publicly
- Use people’s names
3) Make decisions for the long-run
4) Don’t love ’em and leave ’em
5) Engage your opponents
- Take time to listen to people who disagree with you
- You don’t have to agree – but understand where they are coming from
6) Have a sense of humor
- Groundhog day
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching for leaders. This is episode number 49, airing on August 6, 2012. |
| 0:07.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Coaching for Leaders. |
| 0:19.0 | This is the show for leaders who want to improve themselves so they can better engage and develop others. |
| 0:26.0 | Whether you're a season leader or leading people for the first time, |
| 0:30.0 | improving your leadership skills will drive your success, |
| 0:33.3 | and most importantly, the success of others. |
| 0:36.0 | This week's topic, six ways to lead people |
| 0:39.4 | without a formal title. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, hello everyone and welcome to another episode of coaching for leaders. My name is Dave Stahoviac. I'm coming to you from our |
| 0:50.5 | studio out here in Orange County, California. |
| 0:53.1 | I hope you had a fantastic weekend, |
| 0:55.2 | and I'm excited to be back with you for our 49th episode |
| 0:58.8 | on some great tools that you can use |
| 1:02.0 | to lead people without a formal title. |
| 1:04.7 | And if this is the first time that you are joining us, |
| 1:08.0 | welcome, so glad to have you here as a listener. |
| 1:10.5 | We air this show every Monday, and my goal is to provide you with tools |
| 1:14.8 | and resources that will help you to lead more effectively. And this is a question |
| 1:19.2 | that I get a lot these days is how do you lead people when you don't have formal authority or |
| 1:26.2 | position power or the formal title and really this gets back to the essence of what leadership is. And if you've been on our |
| 1:37.1 | website coaching for leaders.com you've seen that the way that I define leadership is, you know, leaders are people that others want to follow |
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