Successful leaders let others succeed. Success breeds success.
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The most effective leaders realise that success is not about them personally but more about the success of others and their team. Leadership is about helping others to become more successful and removing any potential barriers, such as company politics, a negative culture or excessive bureaucracy, that might hinder that success.
Identify and recruit the best people to your team, articulate your vision, mutually agree their goals and then empower and support them to deliver results.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai states: “As a leader, your job is to make your people successful. It’s less about trying to be successful yourself, and more about making sure you have great people and your work is to remove that barrier, remove roadblocks for them so that they can be successful in what they do.”
10 steps to lead others to success
- Coach & share your knowledge – There is no better leadership gift than passing down your experience, wisdom and advice and coaching others to success.
- Empower – Provide clear direction with measurable goals and then empower to make things happen. Hand over control but at the same time, keep control through communication, support and review.
- Identify development opportunities – Delegate ownership of projects that play to individual strengths.
- 4. Praise – Acknowledge and praise great performance to build self-confidence. Confidence breeds success.
- Give honest, respectful & constructive feedback – Create a culture of giving and receiving feedback to the benefit of all.
- Acknowledge, communicate and celebrate successes and achievements – Let others know and appreciate high performance and what individuals are capable of.
- Help to build their profile by influencing networking opportunities. Introduce your network to influence and build theirs.
- Understand what’s important to them – Individualise your approach and make it personal to them. Being valued creates loyalty and commitment and drives performance.
- Challenge and motivate – inspirational leadership sets the example to others and creates a culture of positivity and achievement.
- Manage and influence – any potential barriers that hinder success. Sometimes you may need to shield them and cut through any internal negatives and politics to allow full focus on delivery. Positively manage up the line to create space down the line.
Successful leadership is reliant on leading others to success. Success breeds success.
Have you taken steps to empower your team or direct reports? Have you been empowered by a great leader? Let me know in the comments below.
David Guile is an Executive Leadership Coach. Having worked his way up through all the managerial levels within the hospitality industry to CEO, he combines hard-won experience with a robust coaching methodology to provide insights, support and direction to help emerging leaders find, own and work their potential and the potential of others.
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