Extraordinary Management Motivates the Best Effort in Others
There is a consistent stream being written and taught about leadership these days. There are pointers about leadership, courses about leadership, books, retreats, and continuing education– all concentrated on leadership. While all of this product works and can certainly enhance one’s leadership knowledge, for the many part it prevents addressing and asking two questions:
Why does better leadership make a distinction?, and
How does better leadership achieve those distinctions?
All of us know we’re “supposed” to work to be better leaders, but why does it matter, what effect does it have, and how does this all work?
Whenever I ask the “Why” concern, the responses that come to the mind of the majority of people are something like “better leadership creates more performance, greater profits, lower turnover, greater task satisfaction, more commitment … you understand. However these responses bring us to the real concern which is, “How does better leadership create those things? How does being a better leader cause more performance, greater profits, lower turnover, greater task satisfaction, more commitment?” It is the responses to these two questions which elevate us from just finding out and understanding better leadership principles to pursuing a course of action which changes us and our leadership abilities into something that really makes a distinction.
I often recommend that my customers use their own experience as their finest example. Ask yourself when, throughout your career, you felt the most satisfied, the majority of productive, proudest, most focused, and the majority of devoted. When we show back on those times, the majority of us would acknowledge that we didn’t seem like we did because our “leader” had made an excellent decision, or that they had gone through “leadership training” (That term is in quotes because leaders require to be developed, not trained.), or that their leaders were efficient, fulfilled their objectives, or had success in the past. No, typically we felt the way we did (satisfied, productive, happy, focused, and devoted) because of what we did– what we achieved. It all comes back to us and how we felt. It’s generally not about anything external– it comes down to our feelings. The key to extraordinary leadership, therefore, lies within our capability to relate effectively with individuals and their feelings.
Envision if everybody at work felt satisfied, productive, happy, focused, and devoted! What would the effects be? The effects would be that everybody would create greater performance, greater profits, lower turnover, greater task satisfaction, and more commitment! The key then, to better efficiency, is helping individuals feel more satisfied, productive, happy, focused, and devoted. Notice the absence of any technical or intelligence issues? Notice that we’ve haven’t raised the idea of “inspiring” individuals? We haven’t touched on inspiring individuals for one simple reason … individuals can’t be encouraged! Attempting to inspire someone is analogous to physically attempting to get them to do something they don’t want to do. You won’t succeed. What really works is when we’re self-motivated– when we do something because we want to. When we’re influenced, we enjoy our work. We’re productive and happy of our efforts. We stay focused and devoted to the task at hand. Simply put, we presented out best shot.
Extraordinary leadership, therefore, is leadership that influences individuals to offer their best shot. Although, for a leader, being productive and having good time management skills are essential and essential, they are not adequate. Having profundity becomes progressively essential the greater in a company we rise, however it too is insufficient for really efficient leadership. Extraordinary leadership is about relating to individuals in such a way regarding influence them to offer their best shot– on their own, their company, their community, their family, and/or their world.
How is this achieved? The foundation of extraordinary leadership– of motivating others– comprises thee areas – Effective Leadership Philosophies (on your own and your company), Effective Purpose, Mission and Values, and Effective People Skills.
* EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHIES
Leading by Example – Whether we acknowledge it or not, we constantly lead by example. In our words (what we say or don’t say), in our actions (what we do or don’t do), and in our expressions (what we reveal or don’t reveal). The things we say and do, throughout minutes of “apparent insignificance”, make an impression on those around us.
Servant Leader Philosophies – In our leadership workshops, I’ll ask participants who the most essential person is to a business. The answer, naturally, is the customer. The concern that follows next is, “Who is the most essential person in the business to that customer?”
Many people get that the person crucial to the customer is the one they can be found in contact with – the “frontline”. The concern that follows is the real key to a better understanding of servant leadership. This concern is, “What, then, is the task of the manager of those frontline individuals?” The task of the supervisors of the frontline folks is to make their task as easy and as efficient as possible so that the customer has the best experience possible! It ends up with an organizational chart that looks like an inverted pyramid if this leadership viewpoint is embraced throughout a company. It is a company that acknowledges the significance of the frontline and shows the viewpoint of service throughout.
* EFFECTIVE PURPOSE, MISSION AND VALUES
An organization which influences the best effort in its individuals will attract the type of workers it needs and desires, and will keep them. It has a Purpose, a Mission, and a set of Values that it lives by, it effectively communicates them, and it measures its actions and choices against them.
Function is the “WHY” of the equation. It specifies why we do what we do. Each decision and policy ought to take the business
There are pointers about leadership, courses about leadership, books, retreats, and continuing education– all focused on leadership. Whenever I ask the “Why” concern, the responses that come to the mind of the majority of individuals are something like “better leadership creates more performance, greater profits, lower turnover, greater task satisfaction, more commitment … you get the image. It is the responses to these two questions which elevate us from just finding out and understanding better leadership principles to pursuing a course of action which changes us and our leadership abilities into something that really makes a distinction.
Extraordinary leadership, therefore, is leadership that influences individuals to offer their finest effort. Extraordinary leadership is about relating to individuals in such a way as to influence them to offer their finest effort– for themselves, their company, their community, their family, and/or their world.
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The four temperaments trace back to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 BC) who discovered that each person has a unique personality spectrum or lens that reveals how individuals naturally see the world. Because our paradigms are so influential, we often struggle communicating with those who have a different perspective. By failing to truly understand those around us, surely, we are missing one of the greatest opportunities life has to offer.
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