Leadership, not one size fits all.
There are many leadership books, podcasts and training that tell you about leadership. However, leadership is quite individual.
You move from people worker to a manager and then fall into the leadership role. It’s the role models that you have watched and your ideal around leadership that helps develop who you are.
There are many leadership books, podcasts and training that tell you about leadership. However, leadership is quite individual.
You move from people worker to a manager and then fall into the leadership role.
It’s the role models that you have watched and your ideal around leadership that helps develop who you are.
Working for bad leaders, teaches you likely the most. I don’t want to be like that person, so I am going to be this kind of leader. No leader is perfect, and early in leadership you learn what works, what is not good and what kind of leader you want to be. I made my fair share of mistakes as a young CFO and leader. Knowing what I wanted to achieve, but how you take the team on that journey was a different story.
I think there is a place for training, coaching and reading books and listening to podcasts but then you need to decide what kind of leader you want to be, and then be honest when you fall short or you hit it out in the park. Ask for feedback from your team – create a save space for them to provide feedback to you – and determine what you will work on 3-4 key pieces of feedback that you want to improve.
How you interact with your staff / leadership team will change overtime. Each individual needs different assistance, help and guidance and needs to be managed or led a different way. No one size fits all.
So when you are a leader you need to be clear on your style but then work out how you operate with different leaders/direct reports in your team.
No one sets out to be a bad leader, however there are a lot of them around. Being a good leader, takes concerted effort and focus and continual feedback and learning.
“The joy of leading people, celebrating success and building an effective team is one of the true joys I appreciated when I led people.”
Things have changed with COVID and while I am all for flexibility, leadership styles need to change to adapt to the new flexible world.
At Whiteark we have some great articles, tools on leadership that we will share with you……
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People are important, so what?
It make sense that people are critical to a businesss. Without the people, You couldn’t operate.
Your people interact with your customers, without them you would not have customers or people to service and help them. I think we can agree people are important.
It make sense that people are critical to a businesss. Without the people, You couldn’t operate.
Your people interact with your customers, without them you would not have customers or people to service and help them. I think we can agree people are important.
Many, if not most organisations have an HR team, it’s their job to do all the people compliance, put policies and procedures in place to protect employees and the employer and ensure there are critical programs for roles, responsibilities, leadership and development, 360 feedback, secondments, and other programs to support employees.
However, it’s the leader’s role (supported by HR) to hire, retain, manage, develop their people. It means getting the right people in, supporting and developing them, creating an environment where people are developed, rewarded and recognised.
Now more than ever, managing your people is important. The war on talent has meant that getting good people to join your organisation/team is harder than it’s ever been, therefore looking after your existing employees and retaining your existing workforce is critical.
Every employee wants something different and therefore understanding where they are at, and what they need to be successful and work to be rewarding is critical. A lot of HR can be theory, policies and procedures. However, it needs to be practical hands-on approach to work with each team or employee to ensure that you set up all the teams and the organisation for success.
This will also come down to the culture, it’s about building a culture that people want to work in, that is bottom up built rather than top down.
If you want to work with someone that is brilliant at working with leaders, businesses and employees to redefine culture with a practical, action-oriented approach – look up Colin Ellis. Unbelievable outcomes!
2023 is another year of uncertain times, but one thing is for certain, attracting and retaining the best talent is critical to ensure you can deliver on your goals and key metrics.
At Whiteark we work with companies on their people strategy, with hands on experience we offer a range of services and templates that can be used to help you implement some good people strategies.
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Where do you get your inspiration?
It’s early January 2023, and while getting over COVID I am thinking
about the year ahead and scroll through Linkedin looking for inspiration…
but found a lot of stuff that didn’t inspire me. It got me to thinking about what inspires me.
It’s early January 2023, and while getting over COVID, I am thinking about the year ahead and scroll through Linkedin looking for inspiration…
but found a lot of stuff that didn’t inspire me. It got me to thinking about
what inspires me.
My inspiration comes from ….
1. Making a difference
I love being able to make a difference, I love working with businesses to improve how they work and operate. There are always changes you can make to improve how a business performs. Sometimes when you are in the business, you are too close or too much to do but when you come in with a fresh perspective you can see how small / medium changes can make the biggest impact.
Therefore, I really do enjoy being a consultant. Working across a lot of businesses and helping optimise.
2. People in my inner circle
They say that you are most influenced by the 5 people you associate with the most in your life. Over your life, those people will change for different periods, by design or by fate, it tends to change. COVID has made us all consider who are top 4-5 people are, the cheer leaders, the ones that are always there when you need them and if you can only go out a bit, the ones you would want to spend time with.
I am a social person, and the interaction of friends is very important but it’s how much you invest in the relationship that becomes really important.
As you get older, or maybe it’s just me you are more picky about those people and they become your people.
3. Quotes
I have always loved quotes. Quotes are a good way to reflect on life, work etc. I love a good quote and normally gets me smiling and inspired.
There are probably other things that inspire me, however these are the three that come to mind.
My personal frame of reference, my mental state is very important to ensure that I am my own cheer leader and I remind myself my experience and skills to really drive and help businesses be more successful.
Inspiration provides me a reason to get up in the morning, to help other businesses, to invest in myself and to keep smiling.
How about you? What inspires you today?
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As a business owner or manager, it can be difficult to know whether a particular issue is related to capability or capacity.
In general, CAPABILITY refers to the skills and knowledge needed to perform a task, while CAPACITY refers to the available resources (time, staff, equipment, etc.) to complete the task.