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Two kinds of leadership
Strong site leaders do both: they manage themselves, and they manage the work.
Lead Yourself
Managing yourself
Confidence
Communication
Decision-making
Influence
Resilience
Organisation
Lead Projects
Managing the work
Define
Plan
Mobilise
Deliver
Close & review
Keep on track
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Your Leadership Wheel
Lead Yourself · Rate each area 1–5 to see your shape.
Scale rings
Your score
Spikes = strengths. Dents = growth areas.
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The Six Areas
Lead Yourself · Strengths you can build.
Confidence
Believing you belong and your voice counts.
Try this: Keep a "done well" list; speak in a meeting's first 10 minutes.
Communication
Being clear, being heard, and listening.
Try this: State your point first, then the reasons behind it.
Decision-making
Making timely calls with incomplete information.
Try this: Decide reversible things fast; save time for the big calls.
Influence
Getting buy-in without formal authority.
Try this: Lead with the other person's goals, not only your own.
Resilience
Recovering from setbacks and pressure.
Try this: Separate the setback from your worth; name one fix.
Organisation
Managing your time, tasks and focus.
Try this: Pick the three things that must happen today, first.
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Influence When You're Not in Charge
Lead Yourself · Four ways to lead before you hold a formal title.
1 · Expertise
Be the person who knows.
Reliable knowledge and good work earn trust and a hearing — regardless of your job title.
2 · Relationships
Build trust before you need it.
People back people they know and respect. Invest in working relationships early.
3 · Reciprocity
Help others first.
Support, cover, and credit you give tends to come back when you need it.
4 · Framing
Speak to what they care about.
Connect your idea to the other person's goals, pressures, or priorities.
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How a Project Runs, Start to Finish
Lead Projects · Every project moves through the same five phases.
1
Define
What are we building? Scope, goals, who's involved.
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Plan
Break it into tasks: order, timeline, people, budget.
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Mobilise
Get ready: team, site, materials, permits in place.
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Deliver
Do the work. Coordinate day to day; keep it on track.
5
Close
Hand over, check quality, capture what to do better.
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My Project Plan
Lead Projects · Build your own programme — then save as PDF.
Your plan is not saved online. Use "Save as PDF" when finished to keep a copy.
A good plan answers five questions: What? · In what order? · By when? · Who? · With what? List your tasks below and tick which weeks each task runs. Add or remove rows as needed.
| Task | Wk 1 | Wk 2 | Wk 3 | Wk 4 | Wk 5 | Wk 6 | Wk 7 | Wk 8 |
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Keeping the Work on Track
Lead Projects · A steady rhythm and four key habits.
Plan
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Do
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Check
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Adjust
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Repeat daily / weekly
Short daily check-in
Two minutes: what's done, what's next, what's blocked.
Clear ownership
Every task has one name against it — no "someone will."
Flag problems early
Raise a slip or shortage the day you see it, not later.
Track against the plan
Compare real progress to the programme each week.
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My Leadership Focus
Bring both halves together — one area each, one first step.
This plan is private and is not saved online. Save as PDF to keep your copy. Refreshing the page will clear your answers.
Lead Yourself
One soft-skill area I will develop (from my wheel):
Lead Projects
One project skill I will build:
My first step — one thing I will do this month to move on either of them:
Keep it small. One area in each half is enough. A specific, small step you actually take beats an ambitious plan you don't.
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