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Formal policies and procedures are lacking, training and development of staff is limited to what is necessary to get the job done, hiring efforts and results are inconsistent and communication is a constant challenge.
Your organization likely suffers from lack of accountability, inconsistent leadership ranging from micro-managing to the disappearing leader depending on the day and mood of the leader and high stress and frustration by staff.
By demeanor reactive leaders like you are quick to blame and punish mistakes, focus only on results, are frantic and create stress around them, tend to be Jekyll and Hyde and staff not know who will show up on any given day, makes decisions primarily through emotions rather than seeks our facts and data, and build an organization based on fear, uncertainty and ‘keep your head down’ culture.
Work On:
Reactive leaders are constantly jumping from one activity to the next thus having no time for planning or assessment.
Oftentimes you don’t control your own schedule. This ends up causing you to be late for meetings or constant rescheduling. You also tend to focus on what’s in front of you, thus missing opportunities or end up fighting one fire after another.
Reactive leaders will benefit greatly from:
1. Slowing down and taking time to be thoughtful, plan, implement and assess the results. Creating structure, process and procedures in all areas of the business will be critical in building bench strength in the team.
2. Taking time to fully assess situations and make informed decisions and plan for the unexpected.
3. Focus on how you communicate and be open to listening to others and not needing to be right or assume they have all the answers.
Learning to properly assess goals, strategies and results is more than just an idea, it’s essential to allow them to make decisions through facts and data, not simply emotions.
Next Steps:
Leadership isn’t a title or role you hold.
Nor is it a sometimes thing. It requires commitment to yourself, your company and those around you, to continual learning and development of yourself and others.
You must model the behavior and actions you want others to adopt. Great leadership isn’t a “do as I say” thing; it’s a “do as I do” thing. That starts with truly understanding what leadership means, and investing time to mentor, guide and develop others and learn to plan, measure, trust and verify.
To help you get started we are giving you our Ebook titled “Just Follow Our Tracks – Leadership 101” provides you ideas on building your leadership skills in a variety of areas and situations you face every day.
Download the ebook and commit to taking one action or implementing one new idea every month that you can learn.
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