Leadership Training Videos

Leadership is Vision

Leaders are challenged to influence team members in today’s complex organizations.  With excellent diversity creating communication challenges along with generational gaps, leaders are challenged to influence team members.  But what is the leader trying to accomplish?  Leaders should visit the corporate or organizational vision.  The vision is always the guiding force for any organizational change that involves team members from across the organization. 

Leaders should keep the vision close and align short and long-term goals with it to ensure that organizational change aligns with the vision.  By constantly sharing the organizational vision, following it, and aligning goals to it, leaders can help team members adjust and adapt to a common shared path.  When leaders can get team members aligned to the leadership vision, it can create a great synergy for positive success.

Leaders can consider the following as an option to help align teams to the vision:

Vision > Strategy > Objectives/Goals > Plan > Execution > Reflection/Lessons Learned.

Having a process in place helps leaders drive organizational change towards the vision.  This can be very critical to ensure change is aligned to vision.  This provides a strong foundation for leadership principles.  Thanks.

Mike

bleadersedge.com

#Leadershipvision #positivesuccess #influenceteam #organizationalvision

Leadership is Communication

What leader can be successful without clear communication? Strong influential leaders should practice clear communication in all media as follows: Leadership is communication.

• Verbal;
• Text;
• Email;
• Memos;
• Video conference; and
• Reports.

Proofreading tends to fall short in today’s fast-paced business environments.  Leadership cannot expand within an organization without clear communication.  I identify four purposes for communications:

• Inform;
• Persuade;
• Remind; and
• Consult.

Great leaders will identify the purpose and create an objective for each communication.  Clear communications cannot exist without a purpose and an objective.  Follow up each communication to ensure the correct message is comprehended by the recipient.  This goes a long way to ensure any misunderstandings and delays in expected responses and/or actions.  Thanks.

Mike

bleadersedge.com

#bleadersedge #leadership #influentialleadership #leadershipiscommunication

Be an Active Leader!

An active leader is one who does not sit in an office.  The active leader chooses to engage with team members to actively delegate and negotiate duties.  An active leader provides a strong vision, plan, and prioritized work list to deliver to the organization’s objectives.  An active leader is very open and honest, thus building a foundation for trustworthiness among the team.  An active leader communicates clearly and directly while also accepting criticism to improve self-development.  The active leader provides team members opportunities for self-development as well, while eventually providing the foundation for each team member to be a strong leader.

The active leader loves change and is a “Monday” person. What is a Monday person? One that is positive and arrives to work with strong motivation to create a weekly and daily agenda aimed at guiding the team towards small victories that will align to the organization’s vision.  An active leader strives to engage with strong compassion and enthusiasm. 

Active leaders coach team members to grow into leaders rather than direct them as a boss.  An active leader is a critical thinker during the coaching process.  They should be able to identify team members' strengths and weaknesses to drive optimal results toward the corporate vision. 

And lastly, for today’s influential leadership blog, my favorite topic, an active leader must be an influential active leader and provide a level of positive persuasion that drives team members towards successful results.  Influential leadership, as we remember from a previous leadership blog, while focusing on influential communication, motivational techniques, obstacle removal, and team trust, delivers a specific successful result that aligns with a predefined vision or objective.

Active leadership is necessary in all organizations to deliver quality change during competitive times. Active leaders can add many other characteristics to this list above, but I like to keep it simple to start.  Short, yet powerful, lists of characteristics can provide a quicker understanding of the active leader foundation.  Thanks.

Mike

bleadersedge.com

#activeleader #influentialleadership #influentialleadershipdefinition #Influentialcommunication #teamtrust #influentialleadershipcharacteristics