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5 phrases to improve your leadership

5 Phrases To Improve Your Leadership

Words you are speaking to your team are really powerful. Words have a lasting impact on everyone's lives both for good and for bad. A good leader needs to be aware of the power of their words and be careful not to use them carelessly. Whether you are speaking to your client, motivating your team or simply having a small talk before the meeting or a chatter around the water cooler - you want to make sure you use phrases that are improving your leadership. Luckily for you, we have gathered a couple of such magical-powered phrases that you can use. And it doesn't matter whether you are a vice-president of the company or an HR manager. This 5 phrases will improve your leadership and earn you some respect:


1. "Let Me Write That Down"

If there was at least one time you forgot important information or failed to keep your promise - you might want to use this phrase more often. And let's be honest - we all are so busy sometimes that we forget to eat. The bad news is when manager starts to forget things, fail to keep up promises, or become disorganized, it hurts not only them, but their entire team. So if someone asks you to do a favor, or just keeps you informed - write that down. And do it so they can see. Just say: "That is important, let me write that down" - and your team will know that you are paying attention.



2. "I Trust You"

There is no place in your team for a person you can't trust. And in any case they will be facing some hard decisions and there will be a lot of times when they come to you looking for a solution. While your first tendency will be to tell your team what to do, it is way better to let them make such decisions themselves. Your team needs to grow and it's your responsibility as a leader to help them with that; if you always have the final word in everything, you will do the opposite and prevent it from growing. Plus, when they know you trust them - they will respect you more.



3. "Let me just turn the question around, and ask you"


One of the best ways to deal with questions is to simply turn them back around to the person who is asking the question. Use this phrase when you aren’t sure about the background, don’t have a clear answer, or want to help person you’re talking with come to an understanding of the issue that they’re facing. It will show a person who is asking your level of understanding the and you will let this person know that they have been heard.



4. "Yes, and..." instead of "Yes, but..."
When you say something like, ''That’s a great point, but...,'' you can make people feel like you were merely placating them to get to what you cared about after the ‘but…'. What you are really saying is ''yes I hear you, but I don't care.'' So switch "but" to "and" and you will see big difference.



5. “…Yet”




If you have to turn someone down or to give negative feedback - use "yet" at the end of the sentence. It’s a tiny shift that makes a huge difference, essentially transmuting your criticism from a performance flaw into an area for improvement in which you’re confident your employee can advance with sufficient effort.


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