7 SECRETS THAT INCREASE YOUR LEADERSHIP IMPACT
By Brian Braudis
A major concern for senior executives is “bench strength”—that is, the quantity and quality of up-and- coming, potential leaders who are in the pipeline. Te problem is that too often these would-be leaders “hold back, shrink and play small.” One CEO recently said, “Te potential leaders in our pipeline need to show up, step up, and increase their leadership impact.”
True. An organization is only as strong as its leadership.
In today’s climate of unprecedented change, intense competition and more demanding customers, leaders can’t hold back or shrink. Team members need leadership to model the way because all they see in this modern-day complexity is uncertainty and that leads to anxiety. Team members are looking to leadership for certainty, definitive guidance, vision and a solid commitment. Tis is an opportunity for leadership impact.
Here Are 7 Secrets to Increase Your Leadership Impact:
1. Shift the Energy of Your Team. With composure, increase and elevate your communications. Share your higher perspective and calm the anxiety with your increased presence and obvious commitment. Neutralize the teardown effect of uncertainty and anxiety. Shift the energy of your team toward purpose. You can’t just remove the deconstructive nature of negativity without replacing it with something. Use purpose to drive the conversation. Strategically use each day to keep your organizational purpose in front of your team members. Talk about your mission. Get them excited about growing and serving your clients, customers and stakeholders. Share the growth you see and the future you envision. When your team has a growth mindset it’s only natural that your organization will grow.
Tere will always be uncertainty but when you demonstrate resolute certainty in your commitment to your team, anxiety drops, morale increases, team members take note and follow your lead.
2. Collaborate. Bigger results come from bigger efforts. Instill collaboration within divisions and across programs. Use your leadership presence to convert dissonance to connectedness, silos into solidarity, problems into innovations, risk into reward and daily efforts into a dramatically improved future. Set the behavioral norm by becoming known as the leader interested in organizational success over individual success. When you execute on a higher and larger perspective, you instantly increase leadership impact.
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3. Cultivate Creativity. Open the floodgates of creativity by asking more questions. Te days of one leader with all the answers are in the past. In all likelihood, your team is bursting with new ideas. You don’t have to be Michelangelo, just ask powerful questions and be patient—the innovation will come pouring out in the discussions. Team members are intimately familiar with problems. Tey simply need you to provide them the space to contemplate how today’s problems can become tomorrow’s innovations.
4. Use Influence Not Power. No one likes a pompous leader. Rather than relying on the shortsighted and limiting power of position, reap the long-term benefits that come from building trust and influence. If you use power, good people will leave you and other people will get you.
When you rely on the external power of your leadership position you not only expose weakness in yourself, you build weakness in others by forcing them to acquiesce, stifling their growth and the potential for their unique contribution. Ultimately, the entire relationship is weakened. Defensiveness ensues, low trust follows and potential for cooperation is lost—smothered by negative emotion. Fight the imprudent impulse to command, and direct and invest in the higher, more refined skills of finesse, influence and persuasion.
Patience, finesse, influence and persuasion are the building blocks of increased impact.
TPI Turf News September/October 2017
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