One thing that hin­ders our abil­ity to increase our lead­er­ship capac­ity is a lack of clar­ity. This lack of clar­ity can show itself in so many ways. We can lack clar­ity on our company’s pur­pose, our pri­mary prod­ucts, our key dif­fer­en­tia­tors, who on our teams are best equipped to do what, where our strate­gic wins can be found, what plans we may have com­mit­ted to in times past and who is doing what and when in order for us to exe­cute with excel­lence. Some­times lead­ers even have a lack of clar­ity around why in the heck they started lead­ing this thing at some point in the past. Just typ­ing this causes me angst! Note: This post is part of a series on Increas­ing Your Lead­er­ship Capac­ity. Click here for the pre­vi­ous step.

Now I don’t think that all lead­ers are strug­gling with con­fu­sion around every­thing I just listed, but I do know that I, along with many busi­ness lead­ers I have coached over the years, have found them­selves not lead­ing with excel­lence because we have lacked clar­ity on at least one of them at some point.

So what can you do if you find your­self stuck with very lit­tle time, energy and clar­ity as to how to build your and your team’s lead­er­ship capac­ity? Here are four spe­cific musts do’s that can absolutely increase your level of pas­sion and your direc­tion which will enable you to con­tinue to grow your capac­ity.
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