12 Leadership Traits That Are Guaranteed to Sabotage Your Team and Lower Morale | Quest for Leadership Excellence Newsletter (sign up)
We have spent the last 20 years identifying the traits that make leaders successful. This has led us to strongly believe that there is a significant difference between leaders and managers. Managers always have a title and a formal position on the organizational chart. Leaders may or may not have a title but they always have a relationship with people who make a conscious decision to follow them.
Over the past several weeks, we have conducted executive coaching for leaders who were in jeopardy of losing their jobs. Our prediction is that they will lose their jobs… it is just a matter of time. Based on our work with leaders, here are 12 leadership actions we have found that undermine a leader’s ability to build relationships where people are highly motivated to help the leader accomplish goals:
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Filed under: Communication, Leadership, Newsletters, Peter's Blog, Quest Newsletter, Vision on July 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Think about a great team of which you either are currently a member, or have been a member in the past. Typically, great teams have similar characteristics:
A challenging, meaningful goal or vision
Diverse talent and group composition
Clearly defined actions leading to achievement of the goal
Individual team members contributing to the collective success of the team
All team members are valued, regardless of rank or position
People feel recognized for their contributions
All the characteristics listed above are critical to the overall success of a team, but we feel the last two are essential: team members feeling valued and recognized for their contributions. The following six tips will help ensure that you are meeting your team members’ intrinsic needs for feeling valued and recognized:
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Globalization, dazzling advances in technology and increased customer demands drive organizational change. To remain competitive, your organization and its people must be willing to adapt, or even completely reinvent, to stay relevant.
As opposed to waiting for the market to force you or your organization to change, why not try leading the change?
For inspiration, keep the following case studies in mind. For over 150 years, these companies have survived a dynamic, competitive market, the ups and downs of business cycles and the whimsical nature of customers. In an economy of constant change, they’ve figured out where they need to be next and how to get there.
In 1850, American Express began as an express mover of goods, securities and currency throughout New York state. Realizing that it was difficult for people to obtain cash outside of their immediate banking area, American Express introduced large scale travelers’ checks in 1891, and, in 1958, began issuing travel charge cards.
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Filed under: Leading Change, Peter's Blog, Vision on July 5th, 2011 No Comments »
