You can lead without the title.
You can lead from where you are,
and you can begin leading without any actual authority.
If you want to become a leader at work,
you can begin to lead from where you are.
And that's exactly what I'm going to teach you how to do in this video.
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I release a new video every Tuesday. If you've been following for a while,
one of the things that you know I'm most vocal about is
the fact that you do not need to have the title in order to become a leader at
work. B. ut one of the questions that I get asked most frequently is,
how do I do that?
In this video,
I'm going to share with you seven strategies to begin leading without authority.
That means that you can lead from wherever you are in your organization today.
If you're ready to step up into that leadership role,
click that like button and let's jump right into it.
The first strategy to become a leader without the job title is to create
proactive impact. That's right.
Leaders don't sit around and wait for instruction.
They go out there and they make things happen.
Your greatest opportunity as an emerging leader at your company
is to identify where the nexus of what the company needs
and where you can uniquely offer to help grow your team
and what you can uniquely offer. Where those two things meet is your sweet spot.
And once you find that sweet spot,
it's an excellent opportunity for you to take charge
and start to proactively provide impact to your organization
to demonstrate the fact that you are a leader.
Leaders take charge to make things more effective and more efficient. A.
nd when you find that sweet spot,
that is exactly what you are going to be doing. Taking the initiative,
filling in the gaps,
and helping to create a better team and a better company is going
to be a very natural and a very organic way for you to begin.
Leading from wherever you are. The second strategy,
it's one of the simplest strategies,
but it's one of the things that not nearly enough ambitious professionals are
doing. And that is to begin mentoring your teammates.
When you step into the role as a mentor,
and you're providing support and guidance for your teammates,
it is naturally going to insert you into the leadership role.
When you are mentoring someone,
they are automatically going to be looking up to you.
They're going to look to you for guidance,
they're going to look to you to support their professional growth,
and they're going to look to you to ideas whenever they need them.
This can be a formal role or it can be an informal role.
A great byproduct of mentoring your teammates is
not only is it going to help them see you as a leader and put you into that
position. It's also going to demonstrate to your manager,
and to other members of the leadership team,
that you already are a leader within the organization.
And it brings me right into strategy three, which is to share your ideas.
Being in leadership really means that you need to be bold.
And you need to speak up and that includes sharing your ideas. After all,
there is absolutely no path for you to become a leader
if you aren't even participating in the first place. As a leader,
you want to be one of the first people out of the gate
when ideas are being taken or when feedback is being collected within a meeting.
Vocalizing your idea, as well as your vision,
is not only going to give other people the opportunity to support you
and see what you have to offer.
It's also going to allow your entire team to collaborate towards
better outcomes and that is exactly the type of thing that strong leaders
facilitate. This also is going to put you in control and allows you
to take charge of the conversations and any of the strategies
that are going to bring you and your team forward. And again,
it's a great opportunity for you to demonstrate to your leadership
that you're really ready for that next level. But when you're doing that,
it is really important to follow a step forward which is to be strategic.
This is one of the biggest differences that I see between someone
who thinks they're ready for leadership,
and someone who really truly is ready for leadership
is the ability to prioritize the work that's being undertaken.
As a leader it's really important for you to be able to determine
the importance and the urgency level of any matter or task that is brought to
your attention. And this is especially important within a leader,
because not only are you having to prioritize your own time and attention,
you are also going to be prioritizing the time and the attention of your team.
If this is an area that you know that you can do better in,
I'm going to link a video right here which is going to help you prioritize like
a boss.
I definitely recommend that you check it out after you're done watching this
one. Leaders are laser focused on the things that are most urgent,
most important and are going to have the highest level of impact.
And the more that you're able to demonstrate your ability to do that,
the more that you're going to be put into that leadership position -
even if you don't have the official title yet.
The fifth strategy is to expand your network of advocates.
If you're someone who has been very focused on getting promoted at work
to get yourself into that formal leadership position,
you may have been very focused on building relationships with the people
who actually have a direct say in whether or not you get that promotion
or the people who can influence that.
But if you want to begin leading without a title,
you're also going to be thinking about the actual people
that you are leading because they actually fit into that network of advocates.
You begin leading without the job title at work.
You need to be able to inspire action.
The effectiveness of a leader is wholly tied to their ability to hire their team
and to invoke action and to take it even a step further.
The more people that talk about your leadership skills,
and how they see you as a leader and mentor,
the better likelihood you are going to have to actually step
into that formal leadership role at work.
So if you're really ready for that leadership role,
this is how you become a leader at work. I'd love to know,
are you actually interested into a deep dive video
on the different players that have an influence on your career and getting that
promotion? If so, drop me a comment down below.
The sixth strategy to become a leader at work is to be an expert.
You don't need to be an expert on all of the things what you
need to be as an expert on the things that truly mattered.
The more that you differentiate yourself as being an expert on a specific topic,
the more people are going to naturally and organically come to you for
leadership.
The more that you assert yourself as an expert,
the more people on your team and at your company ,
and even within your industry are going to come to you for your thoughts,
your guidance and your ideas on that topic,
on the more people that are coming to you and looking up to you
and admiring what you have to bring them.
The more you are going to be seen as a leader at work. Ideally,
this really maps back to that first strategy of identifying your impact
and focusing in your expertise to what your biggest area of impact is.
This is also going to stage you to become a mentor to more people
at your company and again within your industry if that's what you're interested
in. And that brings us to our seventh strategy on how to become a leader at work
and that is to find opportunities to stand out.
Leaders do not blend into the crowd.
They are out there. They're leading the way. When you stand out at a work,
it is going to embody and exemplify all of the strategies that I just mentioned.
If you don't really know where to start,
and how to make yourself stand down at work. If you're currently blending in,
I definitely recommend that you check out this video next
to help you find your standout strategies. If this video was helpful,
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Thank you so much for watching. I'm going to see you over in that video.
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