Your job as the leader is to create more leaders

Your job as the leader is to create more leaders.
Here are seven tips that might help you and your organization

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

1. The Learning Leader: If the chief thinks he knows everything then he is limiting the whole team. “There is nothing new in the world for me - I’ve been there - done that”. This train of thought is far too common.
   • Episodic Learning VS Continuous Learning
   • What did you do today VS What did you learn today?

2. Sustainable Leadership (Recruiting leaders from within):
   • Identify and recruit future leaders that share a concern or have a passion about leadership. People who want to deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting with one another on an ongoing basis;
   • Leadership must be grown, cultivated and explored at all levels;

3. Leadership Space:
   Leaders create space, they don’t occupy the space (goldfish grow bigger in a larger pond);
   • The old way of thinking: “How few people can we involve in the planning”? Try not to keep your team in the dark until the plan is mobilized....
   • The new way of thinking: “How do we empower our team members to make recommendations about a proposed plan”? Ideas are captured and considered in advance of mobilizing...

4. Relationship Leader:
   • We take it for granted that we have a good relationship. Many people need to know you before they will do business with you or trust you.
   Action without relationship has no commitment
   Action without possibility has no imagination
   Action without reflection is doomed to make the same mistakes

5. Hard Skills VS Soft Skill Leadership
   • Hard Skills: Developing a set of orders, assigning tasks, completing an equipment inventory, etc.
   • Soft Skills: People Skills – People feel appreciated for their efforts, people are recognized for going over and above, some members are going from high performing to low performing team members – why?

6. Leading Change
   • We often take a good idea and kill it by turning it into a program or a flavour of the month;
   • Good change happens from the foundation up not from management down;
   • Team building is not an event – it is an everyday practice;
   • People will resist change if they perceive that you are trying to change them;
   • People generally do not resist change if the focus is spent on the system within which we work;

7. Leading Effective Meeting Management
   • The problem with meetings is that they often have too much information or too much talking by one or two people. Here is how to shrink the ballance:
   • L.I.D. template (put some thought and preparation into your meeting and combine the previous leadership aspects).
   1/3rd Learning
   1/3rd Information
   1/3rd Dialogue

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