The Birkman Method defines it and many leadership programs talk about it. Asking directly What do you Need is a cornerstone question to great leadership. In this question people are invited to the trUPerformance conversation.
Leadership is challenging. One challenge is creating a safe place for conversations and still have boundaries when problems come to you that are beyond what you can help solve. The formal name is Employee Assistance Program, but another good name is Leadership Assistance Program.
Performance. Accountability. Terms used often in organizations and yet our actions as leaders send a message that our job is to fix people. A leaders job is to care for people and give them an opportunity to join the discussion.
Leaders can handle lots of stress. Can their marriages? How about their teams? This post offers a perspective on leadership and stress that you might not have thought about.
As leaders, are we really in charge of what our people finish. Does the accountability discussion start with a question or a statement? Help people find a few key things, and they will finish.
Helping people define a future place/role they aspire to is challenging because the outcome takes time. Tyranny of the urgent makes these conversations hare, even though the questions to answer are simple. It takes great leadership and great followership to make these conversations and the outcomes happen.
Is it wrong to talk about great followership? We talk about great leadership. Here are five levels of followership that make people think and will drive the question to leaders “So what do you think.”
The Ford Rouge facility is a great example of how history should be used when talking about the present and future, but it should not control it. Great tour – but there are greater leadership lessons to be learned there beyond how to make a car.
So is the person failing because they are a rotten apple or are they in a rotten barrel? A question worth asking and some perspective on how it can be a powerful question for both leaders and followers.
So what has made Little Ceasars successful? Here from the words of Chris Ilitch.
In part one I labelled an unsupported leadership transition as MEAN. This is the second post where I outline some simple things a leader can do to lower the chance of failure for a new leader to their team. This is a guest post on Mary Jo Asmus’ site, an excellent coach and a friend.
What is the cost of a figure it out development plan for new leaders? There is research that suggests a 40% failure rate in leadership transitions and the costs are high and understood. But there is also a real cost to the individual. I would also argue that with all this knowledge, it MEAN. Here is the first part of my argument.