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Guest post by: Roger Ingbretsen

Article Overview: As a leader you must set the pace and clearly communicate expectations. A leader must continually move the organization through change so it can both survive and grow. As a leader, you need to demonstrate the courage to tap into the strengths and creative potential of your people. You need to craft and build a dynamic culture of trust, respect, and innovation, supported by a sound business foundation and exploited through action oriented innovation and customer service.

Leadership Is All About Building An Organization That Will Execut Objectives

Because of their power to persuade, the leaders of an organization, for profit or non-profit, need to carefully and continually create an environment that is disciplined, innovative, adaptive, and fun. Additionally, as an organization and as individuals, there is a strong need to focus on breakthroughs, rather than incremental change. As a leader you will not only be graded on your ability create a vision and strategy, but more importantly on you ability to execute the objectives of the organization.

As a leader you must set the pace and clearly communicate expectations. A leader must continually move the organization through change so it can both survive and grow. As a leader, you need to demonstrate the courage to tap into the strengths and creative potential of your people. You need to craft and build a dynamic culture of trust, respect, and innovation, supported by a sound business foundation and exploited through action oriented innovation and customer service. Your future growth as a leader and the sustainability and growth of your organization depends on it.

Human organizations are dynamic feedback systems. As such it is critical that, for an organization to survive in today’s chaotic environment, it needs leaders that are prepared to throw away their insecurities, get out of their comfort zones, and embrace new and possibly unconventional thinking. As a leader, you constantly operate in a fish bowl. What you do and how you act are mirrored in the actions of the people you lead. The leader is the barometer, forecasting the climate of the organization. Additionally, the beliefs the leader demonstrates most often become the accepted beliefs of the follower. To quote Lee Iaccoa, “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”

As you collectively create and lead an organization of winners, it is important to communicate all wins as they occur. Learning to feel like a winner happens primarily as a result of living through successful experiences and coming to the realization that you can and will relive those experiences. When individuals experience success they persist in trying to relive that success. The same can be said of organizations. Being a winner on a winning team has a great impact on helping, both the individual and the team; develop an inner picture of competence. When, as a company and as individuals, we believe that our effort will be successful…then we will take the risks and do what it takes to go from good to great. We will expect nothing less than our best efforts to be successful.

All the employees you lead should understand and have a common vision of what a winning Super Bowl team looks and feels like, so they can focus their actions toward getting to the big game. As a sobering thought and to continue the sports analogy, the Super Bowl is only one game — there is always next year and the year after. Just as in sports, your business team must deliver winning results; however, they must accomplish winning results week in and week out, building energy and confidence as they collectively move toward your objective.

Your organizational team will win their Super Bowl when your clients and customers view your organization as “the” company that is the absolute best resource of knowledge, products, services, and information to shape their future. You the leader and your organization will know it has developed a Super Bowl dream team when coaches and players alike are working in an atmosphere that creates a sense of professionalism, a strong sense of pride, and a sense of belonging among all stakeholders. For this to occur, in addition to applying sound business principles, each person in a leadership role must be encouraged to:

· Live the organizations culture.

· Understand and articulate the challenge the organization faces.

· Foster innovation.

· Become a coaching leader, a true leader of people.

· Enhance and reward effective leadership behavior.

· Hire, promote, measure, reward, and live the skills and perceptions deemed most important for success in your organization.

· Use the collective talents in your organization to build a dream team.

· Measure every stakeholder on his or her impact on cash, customer, and culture.

· Create and build the organizational knowledge that will help shape the future.

· Use all of the above to execute the goals and objectives of the organization.

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