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Fearless Leadership

Guest post by: Danny Cox

Article Overview: You'll learn: • The four elements of fearless leadership • How to build trust and respect in leadership What builds morale and motivation • The secret of continually selling your company to your company in team meetings

Fearless Leadership

The longer a slow market lasts the easier it is for both managers and employees to develop bad work habits. This causes a slow re-entry to an improving market.

The leader must not wait for a turnaround to happen but start preparing for it now. The four ingredients that build high performances are:

• Interactive trust between coach and team

• A sense of purpose

• Focused action

• Clear on target communications

Interactive trust is initiated by the leader’s personal commitment to growth. This sets a good example for the team. This isn’t set so team members will become copies of the leader but to show that the leader is on a growth curve, which exhibits daily improvement and invites the team to do likewise.

When the leader coaches an individual’s strengths into better job performance, the reward is trust from the team member. Everyone sees this growth––the individual, the coach, other team members, the customers and, most importantly, the person’s family.

As trust and respect spread, they make the interactive statement that “You have my best interests at heart.” Two byproducts are high morale and camaraderie among team members who realize something very special is happening.

Sense of purpose is bigger than a goal or even a vision. A vision is made up of numerous goals all aimed at the eventual achievement of that vision. Inspired enthusiasm builds with the accomplishment of either a goal or a vision that is part of a larger plan (purpose). The result makes the organization memorable.

Focused action is the third element. The leader is aware of where the team is in development and the course it needs to maintain to accomplish the goals and vision. The leader is precise and up to date on progress and keeps the team aware of it. This keeps energy, morale and motivation high in each individual.

Effective communication is the fourth element. High performance leaders have inventoried each employee’s weaknesses and strengths. They know effective coaches must be aware of the weaknesses but talk to the strengths.

Another important phase of communications is to adopt a policy to “never quit selling your company to your company.” Often, the last time an employee heard anything good about the company is during the recruiting phase. Keep selling them!

A final reminder: When a team makes it through a storm because of good leadership, the cohesion that takes place is hard to break.

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