Excellent leaders seem to have a natural ability to receive automatic buy-in from others. This gift of “influence” is often a combination of integrity plus charisma. When trust and admiration are in place, it is natural for others to want to follow a person or business. This is a natural form of branding. Continue reading ‘Stages of Leadership – The Gift of Influence’ »
All businesses have a need for interconnectedness. Executives have a need to understand how various business processes are inter-related. In addition to inter-relatedness inside the processes of the company itself, executives must be able to relate content, strategy, and reasoning with regard to global interactions, technological advances, societal expectations, as well as politics. Continue reading ‘Stages of Leadership: Applicability and Connectivity’ »
There are many facets of good leadership but hard skills, knowledge, and competency are at the base of the model. A good leader should have a strong knowledge base of the industry and at least a broad-based knowledge of financials, investments, economics, and accounting as well as a basic understanding of human resource principles.
This is not to say that a CEO or senior official should know everything in terms of the operations of a company or even in each specific discipline. However, one should at least know “what one does not know”. In other words, know enough about the importance of accounting, finance, IT, or human resources that you know you will need to have an expert in the top seats of these divisions.
If the company is a service provider, the top officer should know who the customers are, who the prospective customers are, who the future customers will be, and what type of pain they are experiencing today as well as what they face tomorrow. A service industry provides “service”. So knowing what the customer needs to make his or her life easier is important for a top official.
If the company is a manufacturer, the top officer should have a strong understanding of the industry as well as past, present, and future trends. Safety issues in the industry? Then this must be understood and respected as well by the top officer.
Basic accounting, general ledger knowledge, as well as investment strategy are also important skills to have. Of course there will likely be a CFO on board as well as a Chief Investment Officer, but the CEO needs a basic understanding of each of these disciplines in order to make certain that the people in these seats know their responsibilities as well as their limits, scope, and the risks their decisions hold.
In future posts we will look at additional facets of strong leadership that are important in forming success habits.
There are many facets of management. A good manager must also possess a strong leadership base.
The Four Stages of Leadership:
1. Functional Competence
2. Applicability
3. Positive influence of others
4. Emotional Intelligence
In order to progress through successful careers, managers –becoming- leaders must master and live these four stages of leadership. To skip any of the four stages or to forget the lessons learned there can cause a career to stall or derail.
In later posts we will look at these four success habits in more depth.
Just read a good article posted from Walk The Talk and thought it would be good to pass along.
The 10 Commandments of Leadership… Continue reading ‘The 10 Commandments of Leadership’ »
Yesterday we looked at the disciplines and behaviors of Multipliers. The alter personality style is the Diminisher. These behavior styles are adapted from the book, “Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter”, by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown.
The 5 Basic Disciplines of the Diminishers are: Continue reading ‘Multiplier or Diminisher: Which One Are You? Part 2’ »
Lose your credibility and you might spend a lifetime trying to regain even a modest portion of what you lost. Can leaders who have a lapse in judgment learn how to be honorable in their actions again? Yes, of course they can. Will the public sector or private enterprise allow them this mistake? Probably not. With this in mind, it becomes even more important that we don’t lose credibility in the first place.
Here are the 5 basic qualities that will help ensure your leadership integrity: Continue reading ‘5 Critical Qualities for Integrity-Based Leadership Success’ »
In the drunken greed of the 1990s and 2000s, it looked as if customer service and servant leadership might take a nosedive and stay down in popularity. Most political and business pundits are now saying that we will not – any time soon- return to the spending and thinking habits of the last few decades. The economy has taken a severe beating and will likely require a long recovery. Many economists are saying the economy may never recover to the levels we have known in the past.
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
–Max De Pree Continue reading ‘How May I Help You?’ »
Great leaders easily win the confidence, respect, trust, and friendship of others. One easy way to do this is to take the spotlight off of you and put it on others. When you catch people doing things right they usually will not disappoint you. Continue reading ‘Great Leaders Inspire Others to be Their Best’ »
Good leadership skills are available to everyone and the leadership style we adopt is a choice. This choice can even be made day-by-day, depending on our own energy level and the “fuel” we use in our lives through meaningful relationships, rest and relaxation, personal development, spirituality, and personal growth. Continue reading ‘What is Your Energy Leadership Level?’ »
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