3 Keys to Leading a Winning Team with Jeff Mask

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you have clarity in the role, clarity as a whole, and clarity of goals, the team you’re leading will absolutely be winning.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s episode is a micro-session around three simple, but powerful, principles to help your team win. Too often, as leaders, we overlook fundamentals. We get distracted. We get going too quickly. People get hired and they’re excited, but when days and weeks go by, and they’re not quite sure what winning looks like in their role, they start questioning:</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Am I adding value? Am I succeeding? I don’t know.</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If there’s ever a question in your team member’s mind about whether or not they’re succeeding, that’s the beginning of a difficult path. So let’s change that. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think about this for a minute: What’s a role you once held in a company where you just didn’t know if you were doing a good job or not? You didn’t know what success looked like. You didn’t know exactly what was expected of you. Sometimes we’ll get a job description at the beginning, but we never revisit it, and we don’t really know if that’s still what our job is. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>The 3 Keys to Winning</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Clarity in the role </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Clarity as a whole </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Clarity of goals</span></li> </ol> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When those are all clear, our chances of winning are significantly greater. Let’s break it down.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>#1: Clarity in the Role</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why does the role exist? What did the job description say again? And are you actually d