First-level Leaders
Mindsets, Skillsets, and Toolsets to Become an Effective Leader
Leadership Guides for First-level Leaders
What is a first-level leader?
People leaders who have one tier of employees reporting to them are referred to as “first level leaders” because they are the first-line of leaders in an organisation’s hierarchy.
What are the challenges for first-level leaders?
For these leaders, their legacy begins with the opportunity to lead a single team. The greatest challenge is that they’ve been promoted because of their skills, and the organisation wants to see that expertise modelled across its teams – however – these emerging leaders have not been trained in the critical practices of leading a team.
What is leadership?
Very simply, a leadership mindset is “we” over “me”. If your first-level leaders mentality toward work hasn’t changed significantly since they became leaders, it’s likely they’re not actually leading. Leading people is vastly different from working as an individual contributor. It’s also vastly different from managing other people.
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
-Dr. Stephen R. Covey
Use these free leadership guides for building the mindsets, skillsets and toolsets your first-level leaders need to be effective with themselves, their teams, and your organisation.
Make The Mental Leap to Leader
A SIX-STEP GUIDE FOR FIRST-LEVEL LEADERS
This free and impactful guide will walk your first-level leaders through proven solutions to some of the most common issues leaders face. Share it with your first-level leaders to help them build their confidence and skills, and to drive your organisational results.
Common Challenges
The Most Common Challenges First-Level Leaders Face Today is a new study to help leaders understand the most common challenges, issues, and hurdles first-level leaders face. First-level leaders have tremendous impact on your business. They execute key company strategies, keep frontline employees engaged, and often serve as escalation points for unhappy customers. Don’t leave their success to chance. When your first-level leaders succeed so does your organisation.
More Free Tools for First-Level Leaders
For leaders in the workplace, their leadership legacy begins with the opportunity to lead a single team. Leaders who have just one tier of employees reporting to them are referred to as “first-level leaders,” because they are on the first step of leadership.
If your first-level leaders mentality toward work hasn’t changed significantly since they became leaders, it’s likely they're not actually leading. Leading people is vastly different from working as an individual contributor.
Improve Effectiveness of First-Level Leaders
100 Questions for Better 1-on-1s with Your Direct Reports
Ensure that the time is useful — for them and for you. How do you do that, especially when the meeting is supposed to be their time, yet the inevitable power dynamic makes it awkward for some direct reports to “lead” the meeting?
DOWNLOAD YOUR TOOLNew Manager To Do List
Use this checklist to ensure that nothing important falls through the cracks and to monitor your progress.
DOWNLOAD YOUR TOOLHow to Manage Your Time: 7 Tips for Doing What Matters Most
Most people wish for more time, but what would you fill it with? If your answer is more of the same — more projects, more interruptions for requests from others, more checking email — then that’s like saying the solution to your cluttered garage is a second garage to fill up.
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