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Setting the direction for your team

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

One of the most critical tasks for a leader is to set the direction. If you do not provide a sense of where you want the team to go, why should they follow you? This needs to be done for the team and the individual members of that team. Following on from the previous chapter, the setting of goals or objectives is vital across each of the three circles of the Action Centred Leadership model. We will show you a number of ways of doing this which will give you some options to choose from to suit the individuals and the specific objectives. Additionally, we will consider what else you can do to increase ...

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