Leaders Letter 100 – 10 Lessons From 100 Leaders’ Letters

Dear leaders, it is the 100th leadership newsletter I am sending out, it is the 100-week streak, where I share lessons on company culture, ideas on leadership and frameworks to help improve your people and performance leadership. 

Today I wanted to share 10 lessons your feedback, questions and requests to collaborate. Here are the ten most popular alongside supporting content to help you make a difference to your career and those around you. 

1. Leadership is getting harder 
   1. 7 great leadership traits 
   2. 21 leadership lessons
   3. Write your team a handwritten letter
2. Management is getting harder but getting more rewarding 
   1. Record micro-moments to celebrate as a team
   2. Questions to ask to improve people’s performance 
   3. Three ways to connect with your department
3. Many leaders were not taught the difference between strategy and tactics 
   1. Strategy is like baking a cake
   2. Strategy cheatsheet
   3. What mission, vision, strategy and tactics actually are
4. Creating a long term vision is hard 
   1. What is company vision
   2. Why some people have vision and others don’t
   3. The future of business is community 
5. Hybrid is hard work and many are unprepared 
   1. Hybrid work guide 
   2. Google’s Hybrid Manifesto – its ok manifesto 
   3. How to remove proximity bias (how to beat the managing in person is best)
6. The great resignation is the great awaking for many middle to senior leaders 
   1. The 3p’s keys to winning business in 2022 and beyond 
   2. The 3 stages of your business, what it was, what it is and what it is going to be 
   3. Have you stepped too far away from your customer’s problems?
   4. Why it is ok to be on the fence for your company
7. Meetings are taking over 60% of managements time 
   1. 25 proven recommendations to improve meetings 
   2. Would a Bill Gates get away week work for you? 
   3. Time to audit your calendar
8. Communication is hard to gain any traction 
   1. Andy Jassy’s communication masterclass
   2. The first and last ten seconds is vital to winning communications
   3. How to kill constant internal noise and gain cut through
9. Company culture is not given enough of a focus and is only ever an agenda item 
   1. Improve company culture with department principles 
   2. The 4f framework – Feel, Fascinate, Future, Flourish  
   3. Create management pods to connect leaders to company culture
10. Team management is a struggle, especially in Hybrid or remote-first companies 

1. Always re-onboard your teams to the office
2. A simple game to connect with your team
3. The hand over and hand back process

Have a great week and you can get in contact at any point by emailing me directly. 

Thanks,

Danny Denhard

BTW I am taking on a limited number of clients, do you need a coach? 

Other great helpful resources 

Be Inspired By Others 

Jeff Bezos’s business lessons 

7 business rules from Elon Musk

Stripe’s communication masterclass

Think Differently 

Time for a performance panel

Annual strategy playbook template

Two up two across framework for career development