FIVE EASY LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS
FIVE EASY LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS
This week’s five easy leadership behaviours bubbled to the top after questions from team leaders and business leaders.
Top Five Behaviours:
Development – curiously consider every opportunity as a learning opportunity for others; ask team members to represent you at meetings, encourage them to complete some or all of your role when you’re on leave.
Silence - don’t feel you need to fill the void created by silence; let people take time to consider their response. Shut up!
Start Now – waiting ages for a response from the Boss, stalling because you don’t know if you’re allowed and not being sure how to do it right, are three signs of distrust. If you encourage accountability and give trust, you’re enabling team members to own what they’re producing and providing. Don’t wait … Start Now.
Influencing Up – asking questions to understand (a coaching approach), will help you build your confidence to discover how valuable your support, service and expertise can be to those in senior ranks (definitely avoid ‘telling’ and ‘selling’).
Motivation – discovering what’s most important for your team members, what makes them happy and how they fulfilled at work, will help you be a better leader. Leading and leaning in towards their motivation (not yours) makes leadership easy.
These conversations continue to surprise me; the degree of their desire to know more about leading people.
It highlights the need for all of us to continue working at helping our teams and businesses, observe, experience, and learn about leading others.
Which behaviours do you find easy?