In the pursuit of success, leaders constantly look to push for better productivity from their teams. When production goals are not met, leaders would expediently address the issue with individuals who are not keeping pace. The pace may pick up, but the true issues causing the decrease in productivity isn’t addressed and will continue to persist until it’s truly explored and resolved.
Leadership Integrity
The level of integrity a leader exhibits consistently sets the stage for how the team and the team members conducts themselves. Leaders are models for members and integrity standards are set by leaders. If leaders can consistently perform with high integrity, that will set the culture of high integrity throughout.
Honesty Does Not Mean Keeping Your Word
Many people in general walks the fine line of being on honest versus being dishonest on a daily basis. As a leader, using dishonesty to advance your own agenda is a recipe for disaster. Dishonest actions may slip by a few times, but it’s not sustainable and in the long run, everyone will see through the lies and deceptions and the leader in question will be rendered a liability to the team and the organization.
How To Be Consistent?
Imagine your team are able to make the right decisions and only need you for confirmation. Imagine your team giving you reports, delivery exactly when and how you want them. Impossible? No. Easy to achieve? No. But it can be done through consistent leadership.
Don’t Lead if You Don’t Followup
In a period of a work day, leaders typically participate in multiple meetings, make numerous decisions and assign various amounts of tasks and projects. All these important efforts, time and communications spent often goes wasted as many of the objectives are forgotten and goes undone because there’s simply isn’t any followup.
Should Leaders Compromise?
Not much thought is usually put into thinking about compromising and what it fully means. When we say we compromise with each other, it’s taken in a positive way. But when we say that we’re in a compromising situation, that’s a very bad situation. So how does this apply to leaders and how should leaders approach compromising?