"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader success is all about growing others." Jack Welch.
Enjoy and be provoked.
Question for you, one that I ask many CEO/MD and GMs - What is stopping your organisation from growing? What are the excuses your people are giving you.
- The economy is slow - they have no money
- Our wharehouse, logistics, service, finance, marketing, sales people are letting us down
- We are too expensive - the customer needs more discounts
- Our product/service is not right, old, wrong for the client
- We don't have the money to do that
And on and on it goes - I bet you could add a few. So what next, how do we push through these excuses and more forward?
The toughest activity for a leader is accountability and motivating - both take time, effort and focus. What would your role be like if your people were even more responsible for their actions and driven to succeed as a team?
As a leader of the business your role is to have everyone aligned to the purpose, goals, strategy, mission, objectives and culture of the organisation.
The toughest activity for a leader is accountability and motivating - both take time, effort and focus. What would your role be like if your people were even more responsible for their actions and driven to succeed as a team?
As a leader of the business your role is to have everyone aligned to the purpose, goals, strategy, mission, objectives and culture of the organisation.
The difference between success and failure is YOU. Look around at some of the businesses that fail, there are patterns, well documented time and time again.
Success in any organisation is about how YOU influence others - those that are employed by you and those that you need to choose your organisation to perform a function of some description. How effective you are at influencing is directly correlated to how successful you are and inversely how stressed/frustrated/angry you become.
TIP: So next time someone inside your organisation provides an excuse use this question - "How would you know if that wasn't true?"
This may seem like a pretty benign question and yet there is some deep psychology within the wording and combination of the words.
Let me explain. Firstly "How would YOU know" - this puts the focus back on them. This requires them to challenge their current beliefs. "if that wasn't true", this requires them to go into the future to figure out what they would have to do to know that it wasn't true - hence coming up with the solution that was hidden before and because of their belief.
Once you ask them they will act like a deer in headlights. They will go around in circles, possibly saying "I don't understand the question?" Ask it again, do not change the wording. Keep asking. They will say " I don't know the answer" You reply "and if you did know - How would you know if that wasn't true?"
There is so much power in this question.
You see it's all about making your life easier, less stressful and more enjoyable as a leader in your organisation. It's about having tools and strategies that influence others to see your way of thinking and implementing what needs to be done to get even better outcomes - time and time again.
Once you ask them they will act like a deer in headlights. They will go around in circles, possibly saying "I don't understand the question?" Ask it again, do not change the wording. Keep asking. They will say " I don't know the answer" You reply "and if you did know - How would you know if that wasn't true?"
There is so much power in this question.
You see it's all about making your life easier, less stressful and more enjoyable as a leader in your organisation. It's about having tools and strategies that influence others to see your way of thinking and implementing what needs to be done to get even better outcomes - time and time again.
What would your life be like if people wanted to follow you?
Inversely, what is life like NOW pushing against the stream time and time again and going backwards?
I experience so many leaders feeling beaten, struggling to moving their organisation forward, growing and having people aligned.
Today more than ever, the leader's role requires them to grasp the rapid rate of change in the business world and to build an organisation that’s capable of continually adapting.
Your VOICE is your tool of leadership. Have you been maximising it to influence people? Have you ever trained on how to be even more effective with your language, your tone, your meaning, the power of your voice.
This is why we have created the SG Partners Influential Leadership Workshop in May, Brisbane. One company is sending 3 senior leaders!
I experience so many leaders feeling beaten, struggling to moving their organisation forward, growing and having people aligned.
Today more than ever, the leader's role requires them to grasp the rapid rate of change in the business world and to build an organisation that’s capable of continually adapting.
Your VOICE is your tool of leadership. Have you been maximising it to influence people? Have you ever trained on how to be even more effective with your language, your tone, your meaning, the power of your voice.
This is why we have created the SG Partners Influential Leadership Workshop in May, Brisbane. One company is sending 3 senior leaders!
This unique workshop is about providing YOU and YOUR PEOPLE tools and strategies to have people do what you want them to do, not because they HAVE to because they WANT too. This is the difference between short term change and sustainable change - it's about influencing them at a mindset level.Click here for more information or see below:
SG Partners Influential Leadership Workshop - May 18/19th Brisbane.
Why doesn’t my team work together, share information – why do I have silo’s, still?
How much time do I waste re hashing the same thing everyday with my people – why can’t they get it and implement the objectives?
Why is it so hard? Why can’t they do what is expected of them? If only they would do their job my life would be a lot easier!
Not another meeting/waste of time, why can’t these be more productive?
At our Leadership workshop you will learn tools and strategies to:
- Align people with your values and mission
- Transform teams by understanding limitations and shift to resourceful thinking patterns
- Get clarity and alignment with your strategy
- Enable people to perform at their peak performance
- Create meaningful outcome that motivate & inspire others
- and much much more
Who is this FOR: CEO’s, MD’s, Owners, General Managers, Senior Leaders, HR Leaders, Sales Leaders - When you are ready to learn tools and strategies to:
- Supercharging your team so they functions holistically and towards a shared strategy.
- Lead others so they naturally follow.
- Communicate with clarity and sell your ideas with more confidence.
- Influence others utilising their own inherent values.
- Being more congruent with your mission.
Which of these challenges are you faced with at present:
- Managing Employee Dissatisfaction.
- Handling Confrontation.
- Challenging, Supporting and Empowering Others.
- Control stress and wayward emotion.
- Faster and better aligned decisions.
- Lead through times of uncertainty.
- Gain trust, alignment and loyalty from others.
- Model best practice in your organisation and replicate in others.
- Improve personal alignment and happiness
So what are you waiting for Click HERE to access the workshop flyer.
Want to learn more about how we improve your company's position, your success, you revenue, margins and marketshare, contact me roland.weber@sgpartners.com.au
Original Post by Michael Lang (SG Partners)
