Really transforming your business requires you to create an environment of success for every member of your team.  Doing this really effectively means developing a highly powerful leadership team. 

Really strong leaders require two fundamental characteristics:

RESPECT

Respected leaders are individuals who truly inspire. They need to engender the respect of every individual in the team. Without respect, your leaders will be unable to deliver real results for your business. But where the real magic happens is where they’re able to not only inspire, but also influence performance. And it’s in influencing performance that your team really begin to build new and better results. 

INFLUENCE

Influential leaders impact positively on the way that everyone around them works. Influencing performance is about being able to take a group of individuals from the place where they are currently performing to a new and better place where they deliver results that are beyond those that are currently being delivered.  

If you are relying on a leadership team who do not have these characteristics, you are missing an opportunity to really transform your organisation.

Think about the following 4 skill sets when you are thinking about how to really deliver results.

Skill One – Coaching

In order to ensure you bring out the absolute best in every single member of your team, your leaders need to be able to coach to success. 

Coaching requires you to enable individuals to be reflective on their current performance and supporting them in understanding the ways in which they can deliver new and better things for your business. Without a good level of coaching, you will not be able to easily embed new ideas.

Skill Two – Training

Understanding the key competencies that are required to really drive success and having the ability to teach them as part of your team’s training, is about more than being skilled yourself.  It is about truly understanding how to bring out skillset improvements in other individuals. If your leaders aren’t competent trainers, they will be unable to support your team members in developing better competencies. 

Skill Three – Development

Development is about taking people on a journey from where they are now to a place in which they do things to a better and higher standard.  Developing individuals is about setting fantastic expectations. It’s about providing roadmaps that allow individuals to understand how to meet those expectations and it’s about ensuring that they have the support needed to deliver on those expectations. Having a really powerful structure of development in your business is fundamental to real transformation.

Skill Four – Accountability 

Really successful employees thrive in an environment of accountability. Employees want to be given positive critique about how they are performing well. But more importantly, they will thrive if given constructive criticism about the areas in which they need to develop.  Creating a culture of accountability is not just about feedback, it’s about making sure that every one of your leaders is able to analyse your team’s performance, and they are able to interpret where there are risks and opportunities for development, ensuring that every team member is committed to delivering the changes required. 

If you are embarking on any programme of growth you will need to have a leadership team that can really change outcomes.  Watch here to learn more about how to achieve this.