Leadership For Sustained Engagement
Leadership Development: Engagement: If you have a project or a team or a business and a vision than you need the engagement of all who will partake. Obvious huh? But more importantly, you need sustained engagement. how do you ensure that everyone on every level buys into and remains aligned with this plot? There are many layers. There are however only two essential elements.
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Involvement with the development of the project and ongoing input:
The collaborative design ensures sustained engagement.
Trust: You need to trust them and they need to trust you.
You need to trust them and they need to trust you.
Trust is essential. One of those biggest indicators that an organisation or project is in trouble is high staff turn over. The loss and replacement of skilled, talented and culturally attuned individuals is HUGE. It is also a sign that something is going badly wrong.
As a leader, you absolutely have to trust that those who join you on this journey will give it their best. And you need to also ensure that these individuals have what they need in order to make this happen.
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In order to know what people need, firstly you must ask, secondly you must hear but before all of this, those individuals need to trust you enough in order to tell you. I’ve seen many an organisational dynamic where it is obvious what is not working, in fact, everyone knows what the problem is. But nobody dares to say it. There are Consultants brought in at huge cost and nobody dared voice what is really happening to them either.
Leadership Development: Engagement
So how do you foster trust in your particular paradigm?
Your ability to …: Be consistent & reliable
Your ability to …: Own your own mistakes with integrity
Your ability to… Role mode Competence
Your ability to …: Hear and communicate clearly
& It Will Take Time – OH!
It will take time and the evidence of all the above to enable trust to build. In this smart-phone now culture, we need to breathe and go with the ebb and flow and choose to respond instead of reacting.
We CAN expect miracles, but NOT immediately!