Leading Well by Pich David;Messenger Ann;

Author:Pich, David;Messenger, Ann;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Major Street Publishing
Published: 2019-05-07T22:17:24+00:00

Step 1: Craft and share your intent

Step 1 involves taking the following steps to craft and share your intent.

Define your purpose

Simon Sinek’s powerful TED talk, ‘Start with why’ went viral many years ago, and for good reason. We engage fully and are inspired to act when we have a clear reason to do so. Gaining clarification of our role as authentic leaders is a powerful motivator.

Develop your mission

What outcomes do you want to achieve? What do you want to be remembered for? What will be the lasting legacy of your time as a leader?

Clarify your values

While your purpose gives you the ‘why’ and the mission gives you the ‘what’, the values are the ‘how’. These are the thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that guide you in situations of pressure or tough calls requiring you to make trade-offs.

Describe your desired impact

How will your purpose, mission and values manifest in practical, everyday impacts? What is your leadership philosophy and approach? What is the desired impact on you, your team, your organisation, customers and the community? What do you want people to say about how your leadership affects them?

Share your intent

It can be difficult to fully trust people we don’t know. Clarifying and sharing our intent gives people a sense of who we are, what we stand for, what they can expect from us, and it removes assumptions about our motivation.

Step 2: Seek feedback

One of the most powerful things ever said to me was by a terrific mentor when I was anxiously awaiting some leadership survey feedback results. Sensing my trepidation, he simply said: ‘if something surprises you about this feedback, you are probably the only person who doesn’t know’.

It forever shifted my attitude to seeking and receiving feedback. Rather than feeling anxious and fearful of what I might hear, I continually feel a sense of relief and gratitude. I’m simply finding out what others are thinking or saying about me at the water cooler, and I’d rather know about it. I care about the impact I have and how aligned it is with my intent and purpose.

Feedback really matters

One CEO I worked with was particularly grateful for feedback. I was a consultant engaged to develop HR strategy, systems and processes at an exciting stage of growth for the business.

Every conversation we had felt like a mental boxing match. He critiqued every idea to the point of running it down completely and asking me to justify it and ‘fight’ for it. When we eventually landed on an idea, I was always left with a crushing feeling that the result was still inferior.

We had plenty more work to complete together, so I decided to give him some feedback. It went something like this:

‘I’d like to talk to you about my experience of working with you on this so far. You seem to be dissatisfied with whatever I produce. Our conversations focus on what is wrong with an idea, rather than working towards a solution. The impact of this is that I feel exhausted, lose motivation, productivity and any sense of satisfaction and achievement.

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