This week I had the opportunity to share some thoughts with a group of our leaders. My main focus was to empower them on a greater level.
As an organization we need to give leaders increased latitude and ability to act and make decisions without the red tape.
We have found ourselves as a merging organization and not an emerging one.
I challenged our leaders to emerge and not to continue to merge into the same flow we have had for the last several years. I learned this principle from Seth Godin.
One of my greatest weaknesses as a leader has been to tell people what to do. I am good at doing, and telling others how to do it. I recently made a change in my thinking process. The change included seeing the outcomes and not just doing the activity.
I began to try and see what people could do, if they could just “be.”
I titled my talk ‘Be.” I posted my thoughts below.
Be Loved
Be informed on the Vision, Values, and Goals
Be an empowered leader and not just a follower!
Be an Owner of the vision
Be creative ~ take liberty, surprise us!
Be accountable
- Hold other’s accountable
Be a bar raiser
- quit being normal
- quit the sameness
- quit being predictable
- quit the comfortability
Be a problem solver
Be a drafting agent for your department
Be excellent in every area!
Be a good team mate ~ Engage and encourage your team!
Be intuitive
Be suggestive
Be innovative
Be bold
Be early
Be the last one to go home
Be friendly
Be your best
Most of all~BE YOU!
The talk was inspiring and the results were empowering.
Our leaders left empowered and ready to emerge!
Your thoughts are solicited and appreciated!
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February 3rd, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Thomas,
Great set of daily affirmations. I am so glad this was posted with our #BeTheOne hash tag on Twitter and I hope you will post more often! And please join us for our next #BeTheOne tweet chat, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 4, at 9:30 a.m. EST.
You also have me thinking anew about people who struggle to set meaningful leadership goals, because they focus almost exclusively on “doing” goals (or are living based on “having” goals). Adding a few of the right “being” goals changes everything. Affirmations and “being goals” such as the simple ones you list inspire you to Be The One; people become inspired to change in response to your personal leadership; and when people change, organizations, families, communities, societies change…results change.
February 17th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Congrats on the change in thinking and doing in your own life. So much for “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” One of the greatest things we can do as leaders is to empower others. It is a way to “honor” them.
I have worked under different leadership styles, and the one I enjoy working for best is the one who imparts there vision to me, and then allows me to work on the details using my own gifts and abilities. As long as I stay focused on fulfilling their vision and deliver them with the final product they wanted, all is well and I fell blessed.
Hopefully those you empowered will take your message and empower those working under them.
Keep up the good “work”, “word”.