Are You An Effective Leader?
Top three qualities for effective leadership in the modern workplace
Posted on 03-03-2018, Read Time: Min
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The modern workplace is a rapidly changing environment and it doesn’t look like slowing down anytime soon. With advances in technology and many jobs being replaced by algorithmic computers and advances in robotics, effective leadership has never been more important. The ability to change, choose what has never been chosen before, and go beyond what everyone else thinks is possible will be the most effective qualities of leaders moving into the future.
A true leader does not require followers, they are willing to go where no one else has gone before whether anyone else is coming along for the ride or not. Effective leadership is choosing what will work best for everyone and everything involved. If the leaders in your workplace are just looking for how they can get the biggest piece of the pie in the shortest amount of time, what does this create for the future of your workplace?
Here are my top three qualities for effective leadership in the modern workplace:
1. Question Everything
Questions empower, and answers disempower. Ask questions and you will empower people to know what they know. Most leaders think they have the right point of view, so everyone should follow them. We have some great examples of this in the leaders you see around the world today.
As a leader you can create a culture where people start asking questions to gain awareness rather than looking for an answer. People have been looking for answers for a long time so it might take a while but your whole business becomes more productive and more effective when people are asking questions. You will notice less micromanaging, more collaboration, new ideas, faster effective decision making, and you will see people thriving where before they were surviving.
A true leader is interested not interesting. Interested is about asking people questions that allow them to express their views and opinions, listening and looking for the valuable ideas in their insights. Interesting is about how everyone would listen to them and do what they say. Leaders who function from interesting often miss out on vital information from colleagues.
As a leader you can create a culture where people start asking questions to gain awareness rather than looking for an answer. People have been looking for answers for a long time so it might take a while but your whole business becomes more productive and more effective when people are asking questions. You will notice less micromanaging, more collaboration, new ideas, faster effective decision making, and you will see people thriving where before they were surviving.
A true leader is interested not interesting. Interested is about asking people questions that allow them to express their views and opinions, listening and looking for the valuable ideas in their insights. Interesting is about how everyone would listen to them and do what they say. Leaders who function from interesting often miss out on vital information from colleagues.
2. Always Empower
An effective leader always empowers. Empowerment often looks like the opposite of what it appears to be. A true leader looks to how they can facilitate people in becoming more aware, even if it means losing money. If the people who work with you get to make their own choices and then get to see what those choices create, then they get more awareness from those choices. Even if you know it’s going to fail, you have to be willing to let them choose, and if they do fail by the choices they make, they will never want to make that mistake again. People don’t like to fail.
As an effective leader you have to be willing to hire people who know more about what you are hiring them for than you do. If you always hire people who know less than you, you will have to micro manage people all the time and the business will not grow. A successful workplace is one where everyone’s talents and abilities are being used to their full potential and people are willing to adapt and change.
When you are hiring people write a list of what you would like done and then ask people “what are you good at? What would you like to do?” And then let them create their job around that, they will be more motivated, happy and effective if they are creating their job.
3. Be Willing to Change
As an effective leader you have to be willing to hire people who know more about what you are hiring them for than you do. If you always hire people who know less than you, you will have to micro manage people all the time and the business will not grow. A successful workplace is one where everyone’s talents and abilities are being used to their full potential and people are willing to adapt and change.
When you are hiring people write a list of what you would like done and then ask people “what are you good at? What would you like to do?” And then let them create their job around that, they will be more motivated, happy and effective if they are creating their job.
3. Be Willing to Change
Most companies die because they are unwilling to change. The world changes all the time, people change, businesses change, governments change, economies change, and technology changes. If your workplace is not one where people are willing to change you are working with a limited future to the limit of what people will not choose to change. An effective modern workplace is one where there is a constant state of change and people are willing to adapt to and institute change with ease.
As a leader you can be the inspiration for change by being willing to go outside the box of what everyone else is choosing. When you choose something that no one else has chosen, you open the doors to others being able to choose more as well. You have to be willing to get it all wrong because the choices that create change are often choices that you can’t predict the outcome, as no one has chosen them before.
All the successful businesses you see today derive from someone at sometimes choosing something that did not exist before. The willingness to change is the most effective quality of a true leader in the modern workplace. LE
As a leader you can be the inspiration for change by being willing to go outside the box of what everyone else is choosing. When you choose something that no one else has chosen, you open the doors to others being able to choose more as well. You have to be willing to get it all wrong because the choices that create change are often choices that you can’t predict the outcome, as no one has chosen them before.
All the successful businesses you see today derive from someone at sometimes choosing something that did not exist before. The willingness to change is the most effective quality of a true leader in the modern workplace. LE
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Gary Douglas is an internationally recognized thought leader, bestselling author, business innovator and founder of Access Consciousness®, a set of pragmatic tools and teachings transforming lives around the world. He has authored or co-authored numerous books including the novel, The Place, which became a Barnes and Noble #1 bestseller. He is a vocal advocate of Benevolent Capitalism and conscious leadership, believing that business can be a force for good, contribute more to the planet and a create a sustainable future. Access Consciousness® is available in more than 170 countries and has contributed to changing the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world for the past 30 years. Follow @garymdouglas Visit https://garymdouglas.com |
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