How to be a better leader
A leadership development process that moves you from guessing how to succeed to a process that shows your success through your effort and skilled-knowledge.
How do you end a 1 year corporate leadership development process?
In class discussions, coaching teams and feedback teams the leaders challenged each other and themselves to put their leadership differences to work in a way that matters to others and themselves.
Team Leaders Responsibility in Team Building
When the management team documented the responsibility they could compare that to the authority of team leaders and we changed how the work got done, leading to people working differently.
Leadership is choices
Teams consist of people working together towards a goal that 1 person cannot complete by themselves. Thinking of a team as a system, changing 1 part (person) in that system will affect the team as a whole.
Team Building and Leadership Development Agenda Finding what works
Working with teams over several months allows the team to take time to test what worked, how it worked, it what context and with whom it worked; plus the same can be applied to what did not work.
Companies Create the Environment for Leadership Development
Be slow and Process Focused developing leaders.
Developing an environment of Trust Attracting Behaviors will allow everyone to be a leader & rise to their level of capacity within the work. Slowing down will speed up the acceptance & rate of development for the entire company – improving the work, in turn improving the organization.
Finding Solutions Through Exceptions – Skeleton Keys
Working to be observant of times the complaint is not happening. No complaint is extreme at all times. The belief is that you know & may be overlooking or ignoring times when things are working. Exceptions frequently go unnoticed & the situation plus actions that made a difference are overlooked because they seem too small or slow.
How you perceive work will affect how you manage and treat others–McGregor X Y Theory
Much of the modern day thinking on Organization Development, Team Building and Leadership stem from the work and research of Douglas McGregor.
Charismatic and Incompetent Managerial Leaders are Destructive
A charismatic and not competent enough leader are always counter-productive in the long term.
What makes a team building activity useful?
I like using activities for Team Building and Leadership Development.
Sometimes wondering if they are the best tool to use at the time and what else could be used to get the message and development across?