The unfortunate truth is that companies nowadays are not grooming leaders. At best they are training managers, most are just finding skeptical employees for day to day work. It’s not that we don’t have leaders within our organization. The problem is that most organizations don’t know how to find these leaders.
RESOURCES & LINKS:
____________________________________________
Growth = Innovation + Excellence [free MINI training series]:
[ Ссылка ]
How To Hire The Right People [video]:
[ Ссылка ]
Define Your Organizational Culture By Answering 4 SIMPLE Questions [video]:
[ Ссылка ]
The 5 Eye-Opening Levels Of Leadership [article]:
[ Ссылка ]
____________________________________________
Actively Searching Out Leaders
Finding leaders within your organization should never be a one time event. It should be ongoing campaign. The great companies like Google, Salesforce, Amazon and Apple are always on the lookout for, and are actively grooming leaders within their organization.
You Are Hiring A Manager NOT A Leader
Now typically this is where companies miss the mark. They find someone who is great at their current position and decide to move them up to a leadership role. This is when you have hired a manager not a leader.
If this manager doesn’t possess leadership skills then all you did is remove a great employee from a great seat and told them to train someone else to do that exact same job. What usually ends up happening over time is the new manager gets frustrated because training is not a skill they possess. Even though they were great at their previous role, they were never groomed for leadership and the new employee is frustrated because they are being trained by a novice leader.
Now I fully believe that leadership skills can absolutely be learned and not an art form that you are born with. If you are not actively grooming leaders within your organization, then you are setting up your future managers for failure. That being said, you currently do have employees that already possess these skills, you just need to find them.
Level 5 Leader
A concept covered in Good To Great By Jim Collins is the concept of the Level 5 leader.
If you think of an organization hierarchy, the lowest level of leadership is the
Level 1
Highly Capable Individual – these are people who contribute with their skills,,,, their know how,,,,, and their good work ethic… If you move up from there the next level is
Level 2
Contributing Team Member – these are people who are able to use their skills and knowledge to help the team succeed… the next level is
Level 3
Competent Manager – these are managers capable of organizing their team to efficiently reach a predetermined objective.
Level 4
Effective Leaders – this is where a majority of the leaders can be found. They are able to get a commitment from their team to pursue a goal and compelling vision. They are also able to create high performance teams. Above this there is another level and that’s
Level 5
Level 5 Leadership – and these are truly great leaders. They have the abilities of the other four levels. Plus a unique combination of will and humility. And it’s this combination that makes them great.
They are extremely ambitious but their ambition is for the organization to excel not for themselves. At the same time, they tend to be very modest about what they personally contributed and they are self-effacing. They are driven to produce exceptional results but this obsession is for sustainable results. And that is the keyword here. This is not a one-off heroic effort.
They have the drive to be consistently excellent. Remember the flywheel vs the doom loop. They also share praise amongst the team when things go well. They take the blame when things go wrong. By sharing the praise and taking the blame they make their team extremely loyal and committed to them.
Finally, they usually come from within the organization. That’s because their greatness usually comes from quiet hard work rather than heroic acts.
Their best quality is that they build successors. They build these successors to be more successful than even they are. That’s in contrast with Level 4 leaders who will sometimes set up their successors for failure in order to make themselves look good.
► If you need help in creating a culture of Growth Innovation & Excellence then check out my consulting firm @ [ Ссылка ]
►Subscribe: [ Ссылка ] to learn more Culture Of GIE tips.
►Find me on Facebook: [ Ссылка ]
►On LinkedIn: [ Ссылка ]
►Subscribe to my podcast: [ Ссылка ]
[ Ссылка ]
#Level5Leaders #VelaniConsulting #CultureOfGIE
