Leadership - Getting Results Beyond the Ordinary
Leadership is about getting results, which are beyond the ordinary.
Good managers keep a business humming - leaders make it better. The leader will give clarity about what can be achieved. They will ask a question, how can we make this business better? Their style of leadership will change to meet the situation. They define success and remove the shackles of the ordinary (mediocrity). They understand their legacy....
Leadership training
1. Leadership is about outcomes not behaviours. Training leaders can not be achieved by training behaviours or developing qualities; this has been tried and discredited.
2. Developing leaders, I believe is about helping them develop a set of skills (intra personal skills and intra personal skills), which:
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Create and articulate a vision for the organisation
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Encourage collaboration
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Encourage the generation and execution of ideas
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Maximise the potential of their people
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Maximise their own potential (including understanding their own limiting beliefs)
3. Leadership is a system that enables an organisation to achieve results beyond the ordinary. The leaders are the catalysts that make this happen. Leadership should not be confused with Headship.
4. Leaders will have an unequivocal source of inspiration that underpins their actions and can be drawn upon by their people. (e.g. organisational values or personal philosophy)
5. Leaders have clarity of purpose that drives them to find ways of achieving results that are out of the ordinary.
A. System of leadership
The purpose of leadership is to get results, which are beyond the ordinary.
1. The leader is the catalyst who gets our people to maximise their output by:
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Maximising the potential of all our people
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Maximising the generation of ideas that will achieve results beyond the ordinary
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Inspiring a culture where the above can thrive
2. They contribute to the enterprise to take it beyond what it should achieve, through the empowerment of people. Skills that encourage this process include:
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Ability to create a vision and articulate it
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Forge and maintain relationships based on trust an respect
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Encouraging a collaborative clearly and effectively
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Coaching
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Recognise the strengths of others even if they don`t like them
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Encourage feedback in an open, non judgmental way and act on this
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Pragmatism
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Nurturing the next generation of leaders
3. Encourage a steady flow of ideas/innovation from others to help the company achieve extra ordinary results.
This requires a culture of creativity the elements of which are to encourage risk taking; a desire to take alternative actions to the norm and to continually engage in dialogue (its good to talk).
4. Get people to choose the ideas that will make a difference to achieve results that are beyond the ordinary.
5. The leader gets these ideas going so they don`t simply get talked about. They move towards results. They demand action.
6. They sell these projects (ideas) internally so that others can collaborate in getting them succeed. They keep the ideas moving.
7. They persist until the results are produced.
B. The leader is the custodian of the source of inspiration:
At CragRats business philosophy defines our culture, it underpins all that we do and gives us credibility. Each organisation is unique, with its own culture. The leader is a custodian of this source of inspiration.
To support this the leaders should promote:
Author: Cragrats Ltd