This document provides 27 tips for being a better leader and mentor, written by Ian Berry. Some of the key tips include focusing on personal development more than your job, simplifying strategies and processes, giving feedback, collaborating with others while also being accountable, and maintaining gratitude. The document encourages the reader to think about what they would add to the list of tips and to contact Ian Berry if interested in mentorship.

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27 ways
to be
a better
leader | mentor
today
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Leadership is
the art of inspiring people
to bring everything
remarkable that they are
to everything they do.

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Leadership falters,
and usually very badly,
without management.

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Management is
the practice of making
it simple for people
to bring everything
remarkable that they are
to everything they do.

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The most successful leaders have
mentors and are being mentors for others.

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1.
Work harder on yourself
than you do on your job -
Jim Rohn.

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2.
Invest at least 20% of your time, energy
and money working on your business
(with thanks to Michael Gerber).

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3.
See your number one role as
helping other people to
discover and enhance
their gifts (talents).

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4.
Help everyone to see themselves as
remarkable and then help them
to become who they see.

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5.
See yourself as remarkable
and become who you see.

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6.
Change with the people using them any policy,
procedure, practice, process, or system
that doesn't mean it's simple for people to
bring their best to their work every day.

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Systematise the sh?t
i.e. everything that
happens more than
once create simple
systems anyone
can follow.

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8.
Understand that
repetition is the
mother of skill
(with thanks to
Tony Robbins).

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9.
Ensure people have
accountability to make
decisions at every
transaction and
interaction with
other people points
of your business.

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For major decisions have
a process that is
transparent so that
people can see the logical
and emotional steps you
made to arrive at
your decision.

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Simplify your strategy
into a sentence.

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12.
Help people create their own
unique piece of
your execution map.

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Co-create a culture of
candour where people are
having candid and convivial
conversations about
their piece of your execution
map every day.

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14.
Ensure that appreciating people
when they do well and helping
them to be accountable when
they don't are integral
to daily conversations.

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15.
Compete with yourself.
Take responsibility for your intentions,
feelings, thoughts, actions
and behaviours.

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Collaborate and let other people be
responsible for their intentions,
feelings, thoughts, actions
and behaviours.

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17.
Co-create a shared-view about how
your values will be lived behaviourially.

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Give people immediate feedback when
you see them living your values
and when they don't.

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19.
Co-create and maintain a shared-view with people about
where you are (reality; what is),
where you're going (possibility; what can be);
why you’re going there (purpose),
how you'll get where you're going (strategy),
who'll do what and when (execution; role clarity,
execution plans, conversations),
how you'll know you're on track
(milestones; lead measures), as well as
how you'll behave along the way (culture, values).

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20.
Respectfully and with dignity let go any person
not in alignment with shared-view.
Everyone has a place,
just maybe not at your place.

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21.
Stop saying you don't have time.
You have 168 hours every week and what you
do with every second is your choice.

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22.
Make a list at the end of every
month as to what you'll
stay doing,
stop doing,
and start doing,
and follow it.

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23.
Say please, thank you,
and I love you.
They're still the
most powerful words
in our language.

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24.
Stay focused on reasons,
relationships and routines.
Result follow.

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Focus on lead measures.
Detach from outcomes.

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26.
Maintain an
"attitude of gratitude."
no matter what happens.

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27.
Be kind.

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What would you add to this list?
I'd love to know your thoughts.
Please email ian@ianberry.biz

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I work with you to fully appreciate your
life’s and leadership story, be a mentor for
you as you imagine, create and live your
next chapter, and while you become the
best mentor you can be for others.
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