Continually I see ideas hap-hazardly put into organizational practice and managerial-leadership ONLY making matters worse. Leading to Executives, Human Resources and team leaders grasping at the ‘Next Thing’ in order to cut the down on the felt mounting bureaucracy and dis-trust within the organization and team.
Presentation I gave at the ABWA Women’s Leadership Conference. The content is applicable to any organization, team and person who has leadership accountability attached to their role.
The Demystification of Leadership
How might we create a shared understanding of the required outcomes? It helps to work with the line leaders usually process holders to determine what the improvement through training, process improvement, etc… might be and how together we can measure the business case and the impact on performance.
DiSC Team Building Activity; Used to flex the C-Conscientiousness Preference.
For participants to experience a C–Conscientious type culture. In this activity all people are asked to use their Conscientious behavior focusing on quality and accuracy. Getting things done right the first time.
Should all people be fully autonomous, able to carry out things when they wish in whatever manner that feel is appropriate? How can this idea fit within a Managerial-Accountability-Hierarchy.
This is an important concept in the world of organization development, teams, and managerial-leadership…Understanding how different people view rules and managements role in the rules informs our work ethic and idea of control over our work.
People get into small groups of 3 to 5 and determine what is working well with their team and what they would like to be better in 100 days. Phrasing the activity in ‘present into the future’ allows the team to create solutions and small steps for improvement.
Leadership is being competent in doing your work. Leadership is establishing a team that follows the vision and work enthusiastically and cooperatively.
If you are NOT COMPETENT in your work…no-one will see you as a ‘good-leader’. This happens wherever you may fall in the managerial hierarchy.
Organizations that lack an understanding and sense of accountability, make employees feel like they are being asked to swim world record times in a pool of Jello. Everyone is trying really hard BUT the system-of-work is forcing them to push harder and gain little progress.
Most meetings begin with the problem in mind. Then we discuss the problem, what caused the problem, if the problem we identified is really the problem, and then comes the need to blame someone for the problem.