Effective Leadership
Leadership is the ability to lead people which means to inspire, motivate (or better said “not to demotivate”) build trust and create a vision which gives people a feeling of belonging to something bigger. Whereas management has the capability to plan, organize and control resources. It´s the Ying & Yang of modern business.
My target is to support you to build a winning culture of discipline.
But effective leadership starts with leading yourself. It´s about your autonomous control, the right acting principles, your leadership habits and the ability to build credibility.
Start to lead yourself now!
You will never be a good leader if you are not able to lead yourself. Which means you need to become a mature character with an independent will who is clear about his/her private mission and acts based on strong principles while your keep sharpen your saw.
To summarize:
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Build a matured character with an independent will
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Be clear about your private mission and act based on strong principles
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Develop effective habits and continuously practice physical, mental, spiritual and emotional (social) health
Reality is, Leadership means you must decide who you want to disappoint and to what degree.
Basic rule of leadership: You will never be able to make everybody happy
This requires a very strong sense of autonomous behavior. Unfortunately, in most cases, the ability for self-directed, critical, and autonomous behavior is underdeveloped in many of us. However, to assert ourselves against potentially unjustified demands and to maintain our psychological stability and well-being, we need these skills.
We will focus on two aspects that we want to train:
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Strengthening the ability to handle criticism
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Defending against unwanted external control attempts
A tip: Always ask yourself what you consider as true, without having investigated the facts.
My framework of self-leadership
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Understand and practice the importance of autonomous control
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Define your private mission statement and acting principles
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Update your leadership habits
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Build your credibility
To practice autonomy and become a self-driven leader it is important to clarify your principles and individual mission statement. As we said, self-leadership is based on expectations and individual needs. Your principles should build the base for your leadership.
To be a strong leader it is essential that people trust you. Therefore, you need to build credibility.
To create self-trust which will build your credibility in the organization you have to grow in the 4 cores of:
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integrity
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intention
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capability
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results.
My leadership coaching helps to create your credibility and make use of the speed of trust built on the research of Stephan M. R. Covey, the son of Stephen Covey, writer of the 7-habits.
Leading others - As a leader you must not “demotivate” people.
People are basically intrinsic motivated. They have a need of belonging. They want to work on something bigger and trust those who share the same values and beliefs.
Fundamental to lead others is effective communication. That starts with the golden circle but there are a bit more skills to consider.
_Golden Circle by Simon Sinek
My framework for team leadership
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Motivation & effective communication
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Building relationship trust
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Define your leadership principles
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Create a winning culture of discipline
People are fundamentally motivated, and care must be taken not to "demotivate" them. Communication disruptions are always a warning signal. Signs of Demotivation:
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Limitation to verbal information only
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Isolated diligence
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Frequent complaining
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Refusal to share information
Motivation means defining and modifying group-specific needs and expectations.
→ Very often, the technique of leading through words consists of triggering or timing group needs and thereby indirectly influencing the individual’s need structure.
When we communicate with others we switch between practical, emotional and social conversations.
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Practical Conversations – Focused on problem-solving or exchanging information.
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Emotional Conversations – Centered on feelings, empathy, and emotional validation.
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Social Conversations – About identity, relationships, and status.
If you want to become a supercommunicator you need to find out about what your report or peer is talking and align.
We coach you on motivation and communication so you become a supercommunicator.
But just communication wont make you a great leader. You need to be able to build relationship trust and discipline within your team. We can train you to establish the right leadership habits and principles. Everthing based on your habits and principles of your "self-leading journey".
By following the right leadership principles and the knowledge of the necessary leadership skills you will achieve to climb up the leadership leader to achieve level 5 leadership skills.
_Level 5 Leadership Pyramide by Jim Collins
Create a Winning Culture of Discipline
Disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action.
That’s what Jim Collins taught us in his influential book Good to Great – and it remains a core principle of how I approach leadership at GTMindset.
Whatever you plan - first focus on getting the right people in the rocket and the wrong people off the rocket or move the right people from the wrong seats to the seats their fitting to.
Before strategy, before GTM, before organizational structure, before lift off, ensure you have the right people in the rocket on the right seats.
"Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people." _Jim Collins
In a disciplined organization you must discipline yourself. Therefore, following a bunch of rules. We help you to make those rules clear and bring them to life.
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Balance freedom with responsibility
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Recruit self-disciplined people
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Discipline without dictatorship
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Embrace the hedgehog concept
_Hedgehog Concept by Jim Collins
Once you have build your credibility, established your level 4 or level 5 leadership, defined the hedgehog concept for your mission and created the foundation for a winning culture of discipline - it´s time manage the change!
You will have to manage all stakeholders well and consider formal as well as informal networks within the organization. Good thing is: changing attitudes have predictable stages.
