Empowering Teams: Fostering Creativity, Diversity, and Participation
Visionary leaders create a sense of ownership. They communicate to people within the enterprise that this is their work, their opportunity, and that they are critical to the success of the whole organization. Leaders realize that all their power is in their people. They seek to enable each team member to contribute to his or her fullest.
Building Teams that Endure: Empowerment, Relationship, and Communication
A plethora of research reveals that when leaders effectively communicate their vision, constituents report significantly higher levels of job satisfaction, motivation, commitment, and productivity. Using honed communication skills, leaders listen, articulate vision, and express the heart of constituents, painting a picture of the future, outlining strategic goals, and openly sharing the current state of affairs.
Transformative Leadership: Accepting Responsibility and Forging Vision
Leaders have some sense of knowing not only where the organization must go but also how to strategically steer it. Even though the responsibility of oversight may be visionary and inspirational, leaders must also ensure that their teams remain on task operationally. To do so, leaders must be strategic thinkers and equippers.
Achieving Superior Results: Recognizing the Immense Value of a Team
Teams rivet themselves to the vision more easily than individuals working alone. With regular accountability and collaboration, teams can more clearly assess potential hindrances and trajectories of decisions, observing how an action done on the front lines of the organization either reinforces or sabotages the company vision.
The Leader’s Priorities: The Building Blocks of Compounding Power
Effective leaders look ahead and provoke change. The very factors that produced today’s success can lead to tomorrow’s failure. Therefore, a leader must be able to embrace change and move with the currents of advancements and culture. As an agent of change, the leader sets a fire so that staff members see the flames with their own eyes and smell the smoke with their own nostrils. They personalize it.