From Manager to Extraordinary Leader
“Someone’s sitting in the shade right now because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
– Warren Buffett
In recent years, there’s been a lot of focus on developing management skills, because we’re told that good management skills produce good results. This is not untrue, but it’s not the full story, either. Certainly a strong set of management skills will ensure you get results (or worst case, show you’re trying), but getting extraordinary results from ordinary people requires more than just a finely-honed set of management skills.
The secret of people who get extraordinary results is that they work alongside the people that help them achieve their goals. They are distinguished by the fact that they are not just managers, but also leaders. Those who get extraordinary results tend to be extraordinary leaders.
Attributes of a Great Leader:
- Capability and interest to lead
- Understand the people they lead
- Understand themselves and how they impact their people
- Understand their purpose as both a leader and a manager of people
Benefits to the Organization:
- Improve alignment and communication between management and employees
- Maximize employee contributions
- Reduce workplace conflict and turnover
- Increase employee engagement and overall productivity and performance
The Road Map to Extraordinary Leadership…
Use an Integrated Approach
Using advanced employee assessment information combined with customized training and coaching programs and tools, you can develop a simple and effective system to assess for fit, develop individual leadership capabilities along with high performing leadership teams.
1. Hire the Right Talent and Assess for Fit to the Role
Evaluate for fit to the role and the organizational culture, assess how an individuals’ interests, thinking style and motivations will likely impact leadership behaviours.
2. Develop Individual Skills
Increase management and leadership effectiveness through the use of self awareness tools, feedback systems and personalized development programs.
3. Build High Functioning Leadership Teams
Develop leadership team capabilities by developing the 5 key behaviours essential to a healthy, well- functioning team: building trust, mastering conflict, achieving commitment, embracing accountability and focusing on results.
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