Leading for results.
It’s one thing to master the technical aspects of a job. It’s quite another to move into the realm of motivating, influencing, and driving the performance of a team, department, or organization. Every new role you take with more responsibility requires different skills.
You manage to provide controls: Planning, Organizing, Reporting, Developing Processes. These are basic skills. To take yourself beyond supervision, and managing, and being a technical expert, you must learn how to lead and work through others rather than do it yourself. Just as you learned to be a good technical manager, you now need to learn how to lead others. Skills needed look different: Influence, Vision, Motivation, Encouragement, Engagement, Mentoring and Gaining Commitment.
Leadership development is a critical component in any successful managers tool kit. It starts with understanding your strengths, and how can you leverage these; identifying your areas of needed growth, compensating for these or learning new skills; and finding out what impact you have on others. Addressing leadership development consists of a variety of approaches. Successful interventions may include self assessments and others, such as 360o feedback, on the job leadership learning, mentoring, class work, strong follow through, and boss support.
Improving Leader Effectiveness
It’s easy to get caught up in day to day activities that occupy our time at work. Meetings, report generation, analysis--it never seems to end. Yet, one of the more important aspects of being a leader is knowing how to align your resources to achieve your organization’s goals.
How do you as a leader motivate employees for high-level performance? More importantly, how do you do this in a sustained manner?
A coach can help focus the manager intervention on what’s most important:
- The leader’s effectiveness in motivating and leading their team.
- The leader’s success in influencing peers.
- The leader’s communication skills to effectively throughout the organization.
- The leader’s ability to achieve results.
And, working with a coach allows you to continue doing your work in real time, accessing expertise and advice as you need it.
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