Posts Tagged ‘leadership success’

Leaders are ultimately judged on the results that they deliver. While this might sometimes seem unfair, all leaders understand that this is the reality.

Sometimes it can be easy for leaders just to tread water, especially when things seem to be going well. Yet in truth continued creativity and risk taking is critical to leadership success. Why?

Leadership success is about finding new or better ways of doing things or meeting needs of customers or clients.

Leadership success is about finding different solutions to long standing problems or issues that are getting in the way of results.

Leadership success starts with an idea or concept that needs to be developed.

Leaders need to be willing to dip their toes into the pool of uncertainty without fear of failure.

No decision or action comes with a warranty or guarantee: there is risk in every decision or choice.

In these highly competitive and fast moving times pushing the boundaries personally, as a team and as an organisation as a whole is not an option but a necessity.

So if you are seeing creativity and risk as being bad or something to avoid, think again. It is not just critical but essential to your success as a leader.

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps professional people to realise their true potential and maximise their earning. You can sign up for his free audio masterclass here www.goalsandachievements.co.uk.

As a leader, your job is to deliver results. Part of leadership success is staying on track.

So what are some signs that you might be off track?

1. You are right on everything and everyone else is wrong.
2. The focus is on you rather than results.
3. You are not taking important decisions that you know you need to take.
4. You are not utilising the skills and potential of your people.
5. You get obsessed when even small things go wrong.
6. You are inconsistent in the way in which you deal with people.
7. The primary focus of your time is on looking good rather than delivering what you are expected to deliver.

What else would you add?

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

As a leader your goal is to deliver results. So what might be stopping you getting results?

As a leader, you want to achieve great results. Right?

So what are 5 keys that can help you to achieve better results as a leader?

Key 1:
• Getting clear on the result that you want to achieve.

Key 2:

• Getting the insights from others who can help you to achieve the results you want.

Key 3:

• Involving others in the decision process.

Key 4:

• Building a good team around you and getting them to do what they do best.

Key 5:

• Being ready to adapt and be flexible when things are not going to plan.

I wonder what else you would add to the list?

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

Being a leader can be extremely challenging. It can feel like a never ending treadmill which is constantly on maximum upward incline.

Sometimes, when in the role of the leader, you are so consumed by the needs of the different stakeholders that you forget to take care of you.

When you don’t take care of you, the true value of what you are doing is sometimes lost. You might not be so impactful, productive or focussed as you could be.

So what can you do to take more care of you and deliver great results?

• Set some boundaries around the hours you work.
• Make a point of taking some form of regular exercise.
• Don’t forget about the important people in your life.
• Keep things in perspective. There is always tomorrow.

The truth is, taking care of you on an ongoing basis will always be continual work in progress. It’s not a onetime fix that lasts forever.

So the big question is, what are you doing to take care of you and deliver great results?

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

• Spotting OPPORTUNITIES to grow and developing the organisation.
• Being OPTIMISTIC about the future.
• OPENLY communicating within the organisation.
• OVERCOMING setbacks and OBSTACLES.
• Focussing on OUTCOMES.

What else would you add?

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

• INITIATING change.
• INDUCTING new members of the team successfully.
• INTEGRATING new acquisitions into the organisation.
• INVESTIGATING problems fully before taking decisions.
• INCLUDING people in developing your vision and strategy.

What else would you add?

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

• HELPING others to achieve success in their careers.
• HOLDING people to account for what they have agreed to deliver.
• HAVING clear outcomes that you want to achieve.
• Managing the HAZARDS that stop the organisation from moving forward.
• HONESTY in the way you communicate with others.

What else would you add?

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

You want to be a successful leader or manager, right?

Of course you do but, despite this, it is surprising just how many people stop themselves from being successful.

So how can you start achieving more success?

Start taking DECISIONS (the ‘D’ in DAR)

We all have lots of choices available to us. Choices are great but it is decisions that get things moving. So if you want to get more success, start taking DECISIONS.

ACT on decisions

Decisions are great and can be hugely invigorating and motivating but the key thing you must do is take ACTION. It is the actions which move you forward, provide the channel for feedback on what is and what is not working. Make a habit of taking ACTION on DECISIONS if you want more success.

REMEMBER: DECISIONS + ACTIONS = RESULTS

RESULTS don’t happen by chance. They are a direct consequence of the decisions and actions you take. If you don’t stop using temporary staff for example, your outlay on salary costs is never going to change. Similarly, if you have a great idea for a product but never take it to the launch stage, you are never going to generate revenues.

The Bottom Line

If you are struggling to deliver as a leader or manager, take time out to review whether you are really taking decisions and then acting on decisions. You might be surprised what a difference simple changes can make.

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

Today’s letter is H.

In terms of leadership success, H is about:

• Holding others to account for what they have agreed to deliver
• Helping others to succeed
• Highlighting the successes and achievements
• Helping others understand the reasons for certain decisions
• Holding the bigger agenda when everyone else is lost in the detail

What else would you add to the list?

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here