• Strategic

• Planner

• Implementer

• Ambitious

• Objective

 

Who on your team ticks all the boxes?

They’re the one who likes nothing better than a well-executed strategy & plan.

 

An ambitious strategy designed with rational objectives.

Almost elegant because they assess the risk & the opportunity.

 

These people are rare as hen’s teeth!

I’ve worked with people across most industries & sectors and I’m always on the lookout for this type of person … as they rarely appear in a team

 

I contain my excitement when I do meet one as I want to understand them & how they see the world.

 

That’s what leadership is about.

Knowing the people in your team.

Their motives, interests & what drives them to conflict.

 

This relationship-building assists when adversity strikes, aka COVID19; your knowledge of their resilience & how they’ll perform & THE SUPPORT THEY’LL NEED.

 

Back to our rare person.

 

Don’t rock the boat by:

• Not giving them all the facts

• Being rash or impulsive

• Ignoring their logic

• Accepting everything without challenging anything

 

Appease them by:

• Providing a logical plan

• Allocating time to develop the plan         

• Limiting the emotion when solving problems

 

If the goal is to be more effective in the team, discuss:

• Taking time to check in with people on a personal level

• Being tolerant of people who don’t see the big picture

• Accepting & exploring suggestions of others

 

To bring out their best:

• Allow them to craft and implement a strategy

• Enable them to fully survey the risks & potential rewards in a situation

• Have facts readily available to support a winning strategy

 

And for a Friday acknowledgment … make sure you catch them when they condense large volumes of information into actionable plans. Rewards need to be clearly structured & administered.

“You saw the opportunity in a complex situation and turning it to our advantage while everyone else saw the risks.”

 

Your RELATIONSHIP INTELLIGENCE skills enable you to identify what’s important for each person on your team.

Give Trust to enable your people to lead their role RESILIENTLY while working REMOTELY in 2021.