Leadership
Leadership is the way you motivate a group of persons in order to achieve defined targets
- By the ability to inspire others
- By presenting ideas both own and others’
- By respecting and listening to the members of the group
- By giving directions
- By your and the coworkers mutual trust
- By creating an environment where everyone feels respected and trusted
Leadership
- Leadership is not being the best, it is about making everyone better, to
create a climate where everyone can contribute in their best way all the
time whether you are there or not.
- Treat everyone with respect, courtesy, politeness and kindness.
- Listen to what others have to say before expressing your viewpoint. Never
interrupt. Use the coworkers’ ideas to create change and improvements.
- Treat people with respect, do not insult.
- Give positive feedback a lot more than negative feedback.
- Respect employee’s personal time. Avoid calling them after work hours or
constantly expecting them to work late.
- Show interest in their professional and personal development.
Turn the hierarchy upside down. As a manager your main target is to make everyone do their best
Feel, Think and Act
Use both your feelings and your logic to decide the actions to take
Promote an open discussion climate where everybody is encouraged to present their ideas (if you havent heard an idea how can you judge if it is good one or not)
It is important to take good care of all ideas regardless of who presents them
Remember you have one brain and the group have several brains
Leadership a multifaceted occupation
High performing team
As a leader you need to work with your coworkers to create High performing team i.e. a group of people with specific roles and complementary talents and skills, aligned with and committed to common targets, who consistently show high levels of cooperation and innovation. All this produce superior results.
A group where everybody is:
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Seen
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Listened to
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Communicating and Communicated to with
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Respected
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Supported
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Cooperating and Cooperated with
Soft Steering with Targets and Values
Cooworkers are humans so when steering them, there needs to be a balance between measurable targets and feelings. Especially when informing about theese targets, you need to make room for soft issues in the communiction when you try to get commitment
Ask:
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Is the target probable to meet (what is hindering and what is promoting fulfilment)
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Try to cover information of Way, What and How (to motivate and explain) why it is important that the targets are reached
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What can I do to do the promote the possibility of target fullfilment
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Can the coworker commit to the target
As a Leader and as a coworker you need to act according to the Core Human Values
1. Respect
2. Empathy
3. Integrity
4. Kindness
5. Responsibility
6. Equality
7. Gratitude
8. Courage
9. Humility
10. Compassion
Today we tend to use more remote working force in the working group (Covid and trends in society promote this)
When working remote you need to think of:
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How and under what circumstances does the group get to know each other and how do you create a High performing team (see: Diversity in the working group)
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How is cooperation between workers promoted and encouraged to nurse knowledge building
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How do you establish the sense of urgency in the working group (see: Visualisation and communication)
Dependence of alcohol, pills, drugs, gaming and mental ill-health
The following needs to be done:
- Create a policy regarding these problems
- Inform coworkers of the policy
- Depending on the problems you face, you might need:
- Define dangerous use
- Investigation and assessment
- Motivational treatment
- Motivational talks
- Addiction treatment
Exhaustion/problems with the mental health, an increasing problem in society
Sometimes the this is caused by performance based self esteem
•You often compare yourself to others
•You value yourself according to your achievements.
•You don’t allow yourself not to achieve the best all the time
•You don’t rest even if you are tired
You feel useless if you fail with a task
Solution focused conversations
is an approach to communication and problem-solving that focuses on identifying and implementing solutions rather than dwelling on problems.
1.Together create a preferred picture of how the coworker wants the future
to look like.
2.Strengths and Resources: Discuss together things that the coworker does
already today and works well.
3.Positive Language: What is working well today? Don’t focus on the
problems
4.Goal Setting: Setting clear and achivable targets together so that
individuals can work towards positive outcomes
5.Small Steps and Progress: Breaking down larger challenges into smaller,
more manageable steps, celebrating and acknowledging even small
progress is encouraged to build momentum.
6.Collaboration: Between the coaching person and the coach
7.Acceptance: Are you understanding and accepting the problem?
8.Brief and Time-Limited: The goal is to bring about positive change in a
relatively short period.
The International Journal of Solution Focused Brief Practices” an open source. link:
Dependence - ask for help
When different kinds of dependencies occur, don’t be afraid to ask experts for advice. It is important that leaders are involved, but there might be someone that can support or assist you in your role as a leader
The Leadership has evolved depending on the needs in the society we live in
I have got the insperation to this chapture from Reference: Laloux Culture Model and Agile, but not fully followed their model
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Anti fragile organisations
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Higher purpose
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Distributed Decision making (After checking everyones opinion not consensus)
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Use the complete person
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Self Management
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Evolving Purpose
4 Information society
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Everyone has a computer
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Google
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Everyone has information
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Shared values
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Engagement
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Stakeholders (internal and external) balacing
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Culture over strategy
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Empowerment
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AGILE
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LEAN
3 Industrial socity
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Competition
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Profit
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Innovations
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Accountability
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Meritocracy
2 Farmer Society
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Hierarchy
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Stability
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Control
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Processes
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Formal roles
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Vicar
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School teacher
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Long term perspective
1 Hunter society
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Survive Chaos
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Power
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Dictator
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Fear
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Strong Leader
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Command authority
Using the Diversity Development presented in Development, is an increased responsibility for the individuals meaning that there needs to be room for them to take a bigger responsibility (a level 4 or 5 in the model)
If we manipulate or steer in detail people will give you exactly what you pay for
If we inspire , let people take responsibility and make them feel appreciated they will give us more than we ask for
To be a leader means that you need to live in a constant balancing act
There is no general balance between Heart and Mind, it needs to be found out depending on the need of the leader and of the group
It may vary depending on occasion and with time
The balance needs to be re-evaluated constantly
Prioritise
Time critical
As a leader there is often to much to do, then it is important to prioritise in a structured way
Depending on the importance and the hurry of an activity your responsive action needs to be different
Remember that the relation to coworkers and the your direct manager often fits in the action quadrant
Performance critical
Everyone needs to feel safe (physical, emotional or psychological safety).
Physical
By leveraging data analysis, providing relevant information and facilitating communication, a Safe Workplace can be created and maintained
Several key steps and considerations to create and maintain a physically safe workplace
1.Risk Assessment
2.Safety Training
3.Compliance Assistance (information and instruction display)
4.Incident Reporting
5.Emergency Preparedness
Continuous Improvement
Emotional or psychological safety
It is created through building trust in a working group and it involves a combination of actions, behaviours, and communication that demonstrate:
- Integrity
- Sincerity
- Reliability
- Consistency
- Commitment
- Competence
Here are some ways to create trust:
- Be honest and transparent
- Follow through on commitments
- Demonstrate competence
- Act with integrity
- Listen actively
- Respect others
- Be reliable
- Admit mistakes
- Maintain confidentiality
- Build relationships
Create and promote a positive climate where everyone feels safe, listened to, trusted and seen
– and positive feedback is used a lot
A happy and positive person feeling safe does a better job
Save the negative feedback to the improvement situation when you can look upon it as improvement possibilities
- Bring positive criticism in a group
- Negative criticism face-to-face
As a leader you need to work with your coworkers to create High performing team i.e. a group of people with specific roles and complementary talents and skills, aligned with and committed to common targets, who consistently show high levels of cooperation and innovation. All this produce superior results.
The group has more brains then you - use the total brain resource
In the Heart and Mind Management model there are many components that can help you beeing a good Leader
To start a leadership
Starting a new job is always challenging. In the case of starting a leadership it is quite overwhelming. In the PPP that you can buy there is some advice of where to start
Reference
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The Puzzel of Motivation, Dan Pink Ted Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_the_puzzle_of_motivation
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How great leaders inspire action, Simon Sinek Ted Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action?referrer=playlist-the_most_popular_talks_of_all -
Why great leaders take humor seriously | Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas | TED TALK DAILY - Bing video
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A guide to collaborate leadership, Lorna Davis https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ted+talks+lorna+davis&&view=detail&mid=F52DB9A715CAC6ECA034F52DB9A715CAC6ECA034&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dted%2520talks%2520lorna%2520davis%26qs%3Dn%26form%3DQBVDMH%26sp%3D-1%26pq%3Dted%2520talks%2520lorna%2520davis%26sc%3D0-21%26sk%3D%26cvid%3D37F7F83C2B204C6EB5925FE807E4F458
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The crises of leadership -- and a new way forward, Halla Tomasdottir Bryn Freedman https://www.ted.com/talks/halla_tomasdottir_and_bryn_freedman_the_crisis_of_leadership_and_a_new_way_forward
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What it takes to be a great leader, Rosalinde Torres https://www.bing.com/newtabredir?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com%2Ftalks%2Froselinde_torres_what_it_takes_to_be_a_great_leader
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https://www.agile-academy.com/en/organizational-development/agile-entwicklung-tesla-joe-justice/
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TEDxToronto - Drew Dudley "Leading with Lollipops"
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Christine Porath: Why being respectful to your coworkers is good for business | TED Talk
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Frances Frei: How to build (and rebuild) trust | TED Talk