10 Tips From Successful Leaders To Newcomers

Today I’m gonna present you the 10 tips from successful leaders to newcomers.

I am a Mentor for dual students (special education program in Germany). Recently, I interviewed a couple of Senior Managers. Every one of them leads big departments. They all started from where you are today, as a newcomer.

I asked them: „What is your No. 1 advice to my mentees for personal and professional success?”

I structured the outcome and created a Top 10 list for success for you. I added some of the statements to the list.

Most of the tips I follow already – which gave me confidence, that I’m on the right path :-). If you follow these tips as well, I’m sure, you will make career and you will be personally successful.

10 Tips From Successful Leaders To Newcomers

1. Network

• Meet people & stay in touch
• You grow through your relationships to others
• Create a network where you can share honest thoughts

2. Deliver

• When you promise something, deliver it on time
• This shows reliability
• It builds confidence and trust in you (I delegate to him and I know he will do it)
• Also, promotion comes if you deliver

3. Stabilize

• Many (young) people change jobs to fast one of the managers said
• Take your time
• Take your time to develop and deliver your “baby” (a project, solution etc. that you stand behind, that you are really committed to)
• Think about: For what you want to be remembered for?
• Think about: what did I leave / create in all my jobs?

4. Produce Value

• Do something where you, you personally, have the feeling to create value
• Then you do it with enthusiasm

5. Go the extra mile

• Don’t stand in the corner shy and do only what you are asked for, do more

6. Don’t go against your values

• Define your values for you
• Stick to them
• Do this from the start
• Don’t get into the rat race (if you do, it will be very difficult)

7. Understand the end-to-end process

• When you are new somewhere understand the end-to-end process of what your company and your department are doing
• Gives you the background knowledge you need to understand why people think and argument as they do

8. Listen

• Listen to people, to what they say and to what they do not say
• Read the unspoken
• When you listen you learn

9. Travel

• Take the opportunity to travel the sites of your company
• Travel the world
• To learn about the different cultures and values of the people
• You can influence them better afterward

10. Move

• Standing still is not an option
• Constantly take new challenges and opportunities, deliver, and take the next one
• This is what they all recommended to me. The top 3 were similar from everyone. The rest differed a bit.

I put this list together as an orientation. Personally, I use it to create my goals. I regularly ask myself: Do I follow these advises? Which one not? How can I improve

For me, Richard Branson has also a great list of tips for success which I like very much.

While writing this article I found this interesting list from lifehack.org.

Last but not least I found a nice collection of Bill Gates tips for success on the internet.

Please feel free to use this list as a reference or let me know your experience. Did you ask your managers already what they recommend to you as a newcomer?

What do they recommend to you to become personal and professionally successful? Every manager I know is open to this question. It is also a good chance to get in touch and extend your network.