Do we have the leadership ability to achieve and sustain growth?
Leaders by their actions tend to re-invigorate work groups by setting a distinguishing tone or work environment that fosters a profound sense of satisfaction and high levels of commitment and performance. Such environments develop over time, not over night. Each work group is unique in how they apply and use leadership skills in creating a healthy and powerful work group environment.
A leaders performance usually excels in many of these areas:
- Energizing and engaging people to vigorously achieve ambitious goals
- Allowing transparent discussions that provoke new thinking
- Resolving complex problems with creative thinking and new insights
- Setting extraordinary expectations for results and getting them
- Keeping an open mind to differing points of view
- Holding everyone accountable for achieving the required results
- Making sure controversial issues are brought to the surface for discussion
- Constantly exploring new ways to improve group performance
- Challenging "status quo" in how things are done to find better ways of working
- Accomplishing goals within specified time limits and budget
- Using the collective wisdom of a work group in making critical decisions
- Dealing with and resolving crucial differences of opinion
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