Great leaders hold great responsibility-they maintain the balance of the needs of the individual team members and the needs of the organization. They inspire passion in their teams and provide the motivation to move toward that sometimes fuzzy goals.
In your experience as a leader how have you managed this balance and what kind of transformation has this provided you?
In your experience with other leaders- how have they inspired a tranformation in you?
Happy posting- looking forward to some great sharing.
Shelagh
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Frank Feather
►CEO ►Ex-Banker ►Futurist/Strategist ►Keynotes/Seminars ►"A future you can bank on!"
Location
Toronto, Canada Area
Industry
Management Consulting
One of the most empowering things a leader did for me was to ask me a very simple but profound question:
"What do you recommend, why, and how will you carry it out?"
In turn, ever since, I employ the same process.
It never fails.
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Bruce Kestelman
Leader/Consultant in Organization Development and Coaching, Architect of Great Work Places and Customer Experiences
Location:Greater Milwaukee Area
Industry:Management Consulting
You ask, Shelagh, about transformational events I experienced with a leader. The experience I'll share is one I had with my grandfather. He was general manager of a chocolate candy manufacturer (mostly hollow Easter candy like eggs and bunnies). I was pretty young and accompanied him on his rounds one day. He delivered boxes and baskets of the candy to families in a poor neighborhood, not far from the factory. He had addresses, but not names, and lots of them. I helped him to stealthily bring the boxes to the doors of these houses. He never received recognition directly, nor did he want it. He also really didn't want to know to whom he was giving. He didn't want to embarrass the families, but understood their need to make the holiday meaningful for their children (or at least that part of it related to the basket). The giving was almost double blind. That experience, and others transformed me into someone who cares greatly about social justice, diversity, inclusion and cultural competence. As I write this, I think both sadly and with fondness of my grandfather who has been gone now for many years.
Bruce
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Gerald Pellett
Electrical Engineer at Green Cycle Design Group
Location:Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area
Industry:Information Technology and Services
I wish all leaders were great. Let me share a transformational story that went from boon to bust.
The company founder started out great. He had keen business sense, kept open communications and empowered employees. Every time you talked or listened to him you felt motivated to work harder and contribute beyond your stated job description. Business was good and the future looked bright.
Then I’m not sure what happened, but he quit running the company and allowed poor decisions to be made by under-qualified people. Some managers brought up legitimate problems caused by the poor decisions, such as non-payment of state taxes. The founder fired the messengers, then held a company-wide meeting where he said that it was his company / he could do as he wanted / nobody should criticize / there’s the door if you don’t like it. He killed moral and started a cycle of distrust and politics that eventually bankrupted the company.
So first he transformed people into go-getters, then he transformed them into job seekers. Sorry to be a wet blanket, but leaders can inspire transformations in both directions.
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Raghuram Natesan
Program Manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions
Location:India
Industry:Outsourcing/Offshoring
Dear Shelagh:
In my limited experience, I would say that I have managed to balance this by breaking down the problem into more manageable components thereby facilitating team members to believe that they can achieve more than they thought possible initially. These achievements enabled them to scale to newer levels and approaching big picture solutions with more openness.
In my experience as a team member, I have seen that the innate trust that my managers had in me as an enabling factor. This helped me grow as a person with open views and less bias.
Regards
Raghu
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