Are you sitting around scratching your head, pondering how to best flex your leadership development muscles, how to best take action, how to best succeed? Well stop thinking and start doing!

A recent Forbes article by August Turak reveals one man’s experiences in leadership development – and the one surefire thing you can do to lead the pack. Keep reading to discover his tips as well as the bottom line.

7 Expert Leadership Development Tips

1. Don’t Figure it out. Find out.

According to Turak, it is important not to waste too much valuable time tossing theories back and forth. Instead, the most effective leaders jump right in and find out for themselves how to make their plans work, because personal effectiveness and inaction don’t go hand in hand, according to Turak.

2. Stay in Dialogue with the Market.

Stay aware of what is going on outside of the confines of your own company in order to effectively strategize in the current moment.

3. Be Willing to Make Mistakes.

Following fear of failure is an ineffective leadership development trait. If you want to get positive results, you need to be willing to put yourself out there and get negative results.

4. Great Leaders Never Have too Many Friends.

Turak sees networking as one of the most crucial characteristics a leader can have. If you know the right someone at the right moment, then you are much more likely to get results.

5. Do Things Concurrently, not Consecutively.

Use your time effectively. Sometimes the best way to get yourself out there is to just make it all happen at once, rather than meandering to and from the drawing board over time. To improve your personal effectiveness, just do what needs to be done.

6. Urgency Urgency Urgency.

This is the bottom line of Turak’s leadership development article. If you want to get ahead, then you need to take matters into your own hands, get out there, and take action. In essence, just do it! According to the article, the most surefire way to fail is to fail to act in a timely manner.

7. Stay on the Phone!

And in the end, that action is most likely to be successful if you keep putting yourself out there, networking, talking to people, and actively refining your plans while you simultaneously move forward.

How can you take more effective action on a daily basis?

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