3 Ways to Become a Better Leader at Work

Many of us are thrust into the role of managing a team at work but often face challenges in personal relations. Maybe you're exceptional at your job, which led to a promotion, and now you have to manage a team of people. Or you're an entrepreneur, and your company has expanded, putting you in charge of a team. In both these situations, people often find themselves in leadership roles without the necessary personal skills for managing others.

1. Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs:

When something doesn't go our way or when our team challenges us, self-doubt can set in, making it difficult to deal with. Self-limiting beliefs can be especially troublesome because a part of our mind actively searches for evidence to confirm those beliefs, even if they aren't true. For example, if you believe "everyone on my team doesn't like me," your mind will look for anything to support that belief, even if it's baseless. It's a daunting cycle. This is why deep mindset work is essential. By recognising and addressing our self-limiting beliefs, we can begin to overcome them and develop new, positive beliefs like "everyone on my team appreciates me." While these examples are simplistic, you can start to understand the impact this has on becoming a better leader at work.

2. Understanding Your Triggers:

Recognise your own triggers. When you're in a leadership role, it's likely that you'll feel triggered at some point. Triggers in life are like the trigger on a gun; they are the "button" that gets pushed, but it's the emotional wounds behind the trigger that are the real issue. Knowing our triggers and working through emotional wounding can be a game changer at work. Often things that happened in the school ground/early childhood can affect us in the present, way more than we realise.

3. Developing Relationship Skills:

Being a great leader is about nurturing strong relationships, even with people you don't particularly like or get along with. This is perhaps the most challenging aspect of becoming a better leader at work, but it's also the one that makes the most significant difference. Time and time again, it's observed that those who understand the art of relating do better in business, have the best teams, are in high demand, and create more long-term opportunities for themselves.

In business, time is money, and each of these skills saves time and yields dividends not only in terms of money and career but also in your short-term and long-term emotional and mental well-being.

Our Business and Leadership Mentor, Justin Lee, has a wealth of knowledge in this area. He has run his own business in the music industry, worked as a corporate coach, and studied psychotherapy and life coaching. Becoming a better leader starts with understanding your triggers, addressing self-limiting beliefs and doubts about leadership, dealing with confrontation, and learning to work with people who have different working styles. If you're in a leadership role and want to expand yourself to maximise your career and your team's potential, reach out for a free consultation call with Justin to see how he can personally assist you.