Leadership Skillz: Being Responsible, Being Accessible

The beginning of a new year is a good time for reflection and reassessment: Am I satisfied with my work? How are my team members doing? What should I change about the way I go about my job? Am I performing at my peak? Habits to break, new goals to set…. And leadership is an area where most anyone who manages other people or who leads a team, a department or an initiative….can find room for growth. Even for those of us that only manage ourselves and interact with peers, leadership concepts definitely come into play when collaboration and teamwork is necessary.

Michiko Diby has been running a series on leadership on her Preventing Project Failure blog based on the book The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell starting out with the importance of being RESPONSIBLE and being ACCESSIBLE. Two sentiments with which we wholeheartedly agree.

Lesson #1 includes a checklist:

Lesson #2 provides 4 easy steps to being accessible:

We will let you check the details of those steps and the rest of the series on your own. There is something for everyone, with leadership topics ranging from simplification to optimism and ego.

Though Michiko’s specialty is troubled IT projects, given her  master’s degree in conflict analysis and resolution and her experience as a program officer  in international development, her blog is worth a frequent visit for anyone who leads, collaborates, or manages.

Follow Michiko on Twitter @ProjectRecovery