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May 25, 2015

3 simple things you need to know about authentic leadership

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3 simple things you need to know about authentic leadership.

There are no silver bullets to being a stand-out leader, but these 3 moves will get you ahead of the pack.

‘Serve around’ the workplace

Ask ‘How can I help?’, not direct ‘Do this’. Your employees need a champion to make it easier for them to do their job. Be that person. Become a regular fixture with the frontline. Be intimately familiar with their issues and challenges.

Fix the stuff for them that needs fixing. Bash internal barriers. Remove grunge. Eliminate dumb rules. Eradicate bureaucracy.

Make their job easier and they will pay you back 100 times over.

Encourage imperfection

Seeking ‘perfection’ in business is a fool’s game; perfection doesn’t exist. And while you are pursuing this mirage you aren’t moving forward. Your feet aren’t moving.

Better to create a just about right plan and start executing it. Learn what works and doesn’t work. Adjust your direction accordingly.

Leave the ponderers in your wake.

Let your right brain rule

Your employees may intellectual understand something, but that doesn’t determine how they personally FEEL about it. They may understand what the consolidation plan means and the high level benefits it will produce but if it eliminates their job they will likely oppose it.

The lesson for leaders is to move quickly from intellectualizing to feeling when executing change.

What YOU (don’t delegate critical changes) say to employees and how you say it will determine if the change you want to make to enhance shareholder value will actually happen.

Does this sound like Leadership 101?

If you say ‘yes’ you’ve missed the point.

Cheers,
Roy
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• Posted 5.25.15 at 04:56 am by Roy Osing
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