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Ten Keys for Success !!!
Personal effectiveness is a matter of style and substance. It’s also a
matter of personal values, character, humanness and confidence in the
creativity, initiative and capabilities of others. Above all it’s a
matter of ‘engaging’ other human beings. Here are ten keys for
effectiveness and success.
1.
Develop a vision! Planning for
the longer term pays off, and working backwards from a vision of the
desired end result creates clarity and purpose. People want to follow
someone who knows where he or she is going.
2.
Simplify! You need to see the
big picture in order to set a course, communicate it and maintain it.
Keep the details at bay. You also need to then simplify reality and
identify the essential activities and action steps to get there. Keep
the incessant ‘busy-ness’ at bay. Focus on what really matters in
terms of customers, value added and performance.
3.
Trust your people! You can’t
expect them to go all out for you if they think you don’t believe in
them. And they definitely will not go all out if they don’t trust you.
Be trustworthy and build trust by ‘trusting’.
4. Keep your cool! The best
leaders show their mettle under fire. Stay ‘in command’ with full
attention to all of what’s going on.
5.
Be an expert! Everyone had
better understand that you know what you’re talking about. And even
when you don’t know you’re an expert in finding out.
6.
Encourage risk! Encourage
individuals to take chances and to accept error and failure as an
inherent facet of learning and growth. Encourage and unleash the
creativity of those around you.
7.
Invite dissent! You’re not
getting the best or learning how to lead if people are afraid to speak
up and engage themselves in what you’re up to. Heat and friction are
natural ingredients of energized and high performing individuals and
groups.
8.
Remove obstacles! Remove
obstacles and barriers, and provide the tools, training, systems and
structures to act and to grow.
9.
Develop ownership! Stimulate
self directed action and transfer responsibility and ownership to
those who do the work.
10.
Tell the truth! There is no more
effective method of engaging individuals and making a difference than
telling the truth - about what is happening, what you want, how you
want to get there, and what you want, need and expect from others. A
‘ruthless commitment’ to telling the truth is perhaps the most
liberating and refreshing approach to effectiveness in any context.
All part of ‘the quiet work of leadership.’
By Rick Sidorowicz
Lucy Doss
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