Tag: Visionary Leader

How Great Managers Make Management Work For Them

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘You must turn your vision into their reality.’

‘Appeal to the heart to make the vision a reality.’

‘If you don’t support the vision, why should your employees?’

‘A goal that is too high is a warning sign that the person who set it is not truly committed to attaining it.’

‘Set subgoals as stepping-stones toward the final goal.’

‘Don’t seek input from subordinates unless you intend to take feedback seriously.’

‘You need to sell your organization’s values to your people.’

‘Emphasize that errors lead to learning successes, not performance failures.’

‘Give people the training and resources they need and then turn them loose.’

‘Teach your team to believe they can succeed.’

‘Your job is to help people break the ‘I can’t do it’ cycle.’

‘The behaviours you appraise should be critical to strategy execution.’

Source:

Gary P. Latham (2018). Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager: Making the Science of Management Work for You (Second Edition)

The Impact Of Great Leadership In The Workplace

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Leadership is not about what you know. It is not about what you can do for yourself. It is not about your title. It is not about who you know.

Leadership, real leadership, is about how you make other people feel. It is about how you treat other people. It is about what you do for others, not about what you do for yourself.

The question is, according to Tim Irwin, ‘Do you want to make an impact?’

Because leadership is about impact; it is not about power.

According to Tim, ‘The purpose of power is to implement strategies and to reach difficult goals while valuing and respecting the team that accomplishes the goals.’

‘When we have power we must exercise great self-awareness, wrap it in humility, and rein in its deleterous effects.’

‘Effective leaders must be ruthlessly intolerant of any self-deception.’

‘If arrogance is the mother of all derailers, humility is the mother of all safeguards.’

‘Effective self-regulation frees us from the tyranny of our impulses.’

‘Authentic leaders express a personal narrative alongside their vision and goals for the organization.’

‘Inspiring others to give themselves unreservedly to the mission is not a management technique. Effective leadership is far more personal.’

‘Even in our most glaringly candid moments we are reluctant to acknowledge that some of our inclinations are, at least, ineffective, if not dishonorable. Denial provides a safe way to sidestep our tension- or at least it seems that way.’

‘By bringing the issue into the light of the day, you often realize what the right decision is.’

‘Management is positional. Leadership is personal.’

Source:

Tim Irwin (2014). Impact: Great Leadership Changes Everything