Develop effective leadership skills, inspire employee engagement and learn to make choices that help you create and enjoy the life you are here to live while having the impact you want to have in your world.
Good leadership skills are developed through training, coaching and practice.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Aristotle
11 Principles of Leadership Practices
1. Cultivate emotional intelligence & personal accountability:
- be your authentic self
- set and respect boundaries
- clarify personal values
- establish clear and distinct personal and professional goals
- develop effective self-care habits
2. Commit to never-ending, continuous improvement:
- Set high personal standards and work hard to achieve them
- Practice self assessment and reflection.
3. Develop response – ability and be accountable to your followers:
- Listen and hear the whole person
- Provide honest and supportive feedback to develop resonant relationships.
4. Manage stakeholder expectations:
- Be sensitive to and honest with your stakeholders
- Relate with and invest in your relationships
- Treat everyone with respect and fairness.
5. Cultivate a participatory culture:
- Without judgment or blame
- Where all are engaged and invested
- And mistakes are seen as opportunities for creativity and innovations.
6. Model Behavior:
- Identify unaddressed issues and face challenges with courage
- Unleash the talents, energy, innovation and creativity of your team
- Acknowledge mistakes and learn from them
- Create space for confidence, creativity and innovation to flourish.
7. Invest in Others:
- Share knowledge
- Help people discover hidden talents and work to their strengths
- Build, inspire and guide your team
8. Delegate effectively:
- Assign the right job to the right person
- Provide motivation, training and support
- Establish benchmarks, success measurements and provide regular feedback
- Stay out of the way and trust your team to do their best
9. Get Things Done – Create clarity through:
- Open discussion
- Goal setting
- Effective decision making that sustains momentum
10. Communicate effectively:
- the right message to the right people in the right way…consistently
11. Acknowledge Progress and Celebrate Success
- Recognize your team for good performance, contributions, excellence and celebrate together
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Donald Curtis
Leadership is situational. Learn more: The 8Es of the KAIZEN Leadership Development System provide a framework and an approach – a process, to cultivate resilient leaders.
Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, KAIZEN Lifestyle Management, coaches executives, managers, business owners and other creative professionals to help them improve their personal and professional effectiveness and achieve sustainable success.
We have worked with organizations experiencing high growth, rapid change, leadership challenges, a fiercely competitive environment and restructuring. To learn more about how you or your organization can benefit from our leadership coaching programs please contact us at 416 686 6463.
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