CarolLines: Learning to Lead

Leading is learning to:

  • Create a vision
  • Enroll other people
  • Trust and empower
  • Relax the reins
  • Encourage new thinking
  • Ask great questions
  • Actively listen
  • Allow and admit mistakes
  • Be open
  • Be accessible
  • Hold people accountable
  • Check in without constantly checking up
  • Share the credit
  • Take the heat
  • Critique instead of criticize
  • Seek others’ guidance
  • Embrace not knowing
  • Experiment and innovate
  • Lead the way you’d like to be led
  • Leading is constantly learning.