Everyone
disdains leaders who are in it just for themselves. Self-absorbed
leaders destroy relationships, disengage employees, and diminish
results.
Brave leaders build relationships. Cowards use distance and fear to control.
Fear drives disconnection, but strong relationships replace fear with respect.
If you don’t care, the team you lead doesn’t care either.
6 steps to results through relationships:
#1. Explore and understand problems and issues lightly.
Many leaders are like hogs on slop when it comes to problems. It’s not
bad that you see the bad. It’s what you do after judging that makes you a
successful leader. You stink if problems consume your attention. No one loves a stinker.
#2. Get to
goals and opportunities quickly, even if you started with problems.
Leadership begins when you face forward. Hand-wringers lead anxious
teams, but noble goals inspire commitment, courage, and relationship.
#3.
Connect goals to reasons. The most important thing leaders understand
is the reason behind behaviors. What reasons motivate teammates? People
engage for their reasons, not yours. Relationships are built around reasons.
I have a
thirty-something female on my team. She has some ideas, but she isn’t
clear about what she wants. We’re searching for inner drivers that
ignite her passion.
When you find your reasons, passion takes over.
#4. Build
on abilities. Strong relationships emerge when leaders connect
teammates’ strengths to problems and opportunities. How might you
leverage strengths and talents?
#5. Define
behaviors. What behaviors work for them? Keep in mind that their way is
better than your way, as long as it doesn’t do harm.
#6. Invite
others to define accountability. Imposing accountability on others
weakens relationships. Self-imposed accountability is the only kind.
Trusting others to establish accountability strengthens relationships
and expands ownership.
Uncaring leaders lead disconnected teams. Of all the things you do, care first.
How might leaders build strong relationships and deliver great results at the same time?
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