Want to improve your leadership skills, one step at a time? In the Principle-Driven Leadership Podcast, Seth Dobbs, (published presenter, trainer, and author) shares insights and leadership advice based on his years as a C-suite executive and leadership coach.

These insights center around three core principles of leadership:

• Leaders Provide Vision
• Leaders Resolve Problems
• Leaders Create More Leaders

Applying these principles and other support concepts will help you grow and develop your own authentic leadership. Each episode will provide a few insights and takeaways to help you improve your skills in small ways each week.

“To the person who does not know where they want to go there is no favorable wind.” -Seneca

“Leaders Provide Vision” is the first core principle of leadership. To be clear, a Vision is more than a pithy vision statement .

A Vision:

1. Gives a strong sense of purpose to unite teams in making clear decisions
2. Has enough information to provide clarity on what you want to achieve
3. In combining those two, provides the ability to inspire forward motion.

Without this clarity, teams and organizations have no “favorable winds” and struggle to make meaningful progress.

Are you working with a Vision that meets the three criteria above? If not, what can you do today to start changing that?

Simply taking a bunch of actions can add up to nothing…or worse! Actions without outcomes can take you in the wrong direction.

The enabling principle “Bias to Outcome > Bias to Action” centers your focus on what needs to be achieved. A bias to outcome helps align and filter actions in service of achieving meaningful results.

It’s difficult to get alignment if everyone is focused solely on “doing” and checking tasks off of lists. Forward motion towards realizing a vision requires a bias to outcome.

Are you talking to your team about *tasks* or *outcomes*? If you're talking only about tasks, how can you start changing the dialog?

As you start focusing more on outcomes, is your team working on tasks that aren't aligned with those outcomes? How can you change that?