Many of us have created our own set of principles we use to guide how we lead. In this Jam Session episode, I talk with Mike Kosikas, Director of Talent Development and Operational Excellence for a medical device company, as he shares his own three guiding leadership principles: 1) Quality of Life, 2) Compensation, and 3) Development

Key Takeaways:

• Your employees don’t care about how much you know until they first know how much you care
• As a leader, you can directly impact quality of life - for better or worse
• Frequent check-ins with your team can positively impact their quality of life
• Compensation is closely tied to either building trust or losing trust
• When discussing compensation never get baited into comparisons     
• The toughest part about developing your people is trying to find where opportunity meets desire
• Developing your people involves a huge investment in time, level setting, and providing the path forward with the right resources
• There is more value in being viewed as a collaborator instead of a transactional leader
• Developing your employees involves knocking down barriers so that they can run faster

Leadership Resources:

• On Leadership, by John Wooden 
• It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition, by Michael Abrashoff 
• Principles: Life and Work, by Ray Dalio