Attention Leaders: Tired of Being in Crisis Mode?
Crisis situations can define who you are as a leader.
Even so, the ability to handle a crisis is chickenfeed compared to the skills
involved with preventing one. This valuable expertise separates great
leaders from their counterparts and starts with Six Strategic Success
Habits every leader needs to know.
Why do some leaders make it, yet others get left behind?
Is leadership simply about your capacity to handle or prevent a crisis?
Absolutely not: there’s another big reason to consider.
You Have No System to Handle Change
The problems and implications of not having a system to handle change
are vast. You’re always playing catching up, feel like the business is
running you, and are without enough time to focus on what’s important.
Let’s first look at three common ways leaders react to
change:
How do you handle change? Which apply to you and your people?
Crisis Mode: You are in and out of crisis mode, coasting without any kind
of system. You spend a lot of time putting out fires, and wondering why
the problem was not caught sooner.
Problem Focused: You are concerned and usually implement short-term
solutions or band-aid problems. However, your solutions are not directed
at the root cause or eliminating future problems, so you often see them
resurface again.
Strategic-Success Focused: You have a focused vision, build on to what
you know, and put it into action. You evaluate, strategize, redirect, and
then proceed.
The big difference between the Strategic-Success Focused leader
and the others is they have already made change a habit. This
leader has imprinted a clear and effective system for predicting and
managing change into their business and team.
Strategic-Success Focused leaders don’t have one crisis after
another
Instead, they create a system to handle change. This allows them to
focus on what’s really important, whether its driving revenue, creating
new products or services, mentoring others, or enjoying the lifestyle their
position has afforded them.
Why is this so important?
Because without a way to keep your business and team on track through
an environment of change, you’ll continue to waste a lot of time, money,
and valuable energy on reinventing the wheel anytime something
unexpected comes up.
Next, a cycle of problems seems to begin. The first of which is, how do
you end the cycle? Where do you start?
Start with your mindset.
The best way to begin is to transform your mindset from that of crisis
mode or problem focused to more of a Strategic-Success Focus with the
following Six Success Habits:
in regard to change. Are you ahead of the game every time?
My suggestion: Set a plan in motion to transform your business and
team into one that gets extraordinary results amidst change or any
challenging backdrop.
About the author:
Diana Keith, people strategist and business psychologist, works
with leaders and their teams to increase innovation, morale, and
productivity. See her website http://www.mlevelsystems.com to
get your free people strategy guide for success.
Copyright © Diana Keith, M-Level Systems Inc.
Back to the home page or contact us if you have questions or want to
schedule a complimentary consultation.
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Crisis situations can define who you are as a leader.
Even so, the ability to handle a crisis is chickenfeed compared to the skills
involved with preventing one. This valuable expertise separates great
leaders from their counterparts and starts with Six Strategic Success
Habits every leader needs to know.
Why do some leaders make it, yet others get left behind?
Is leadership simply about your capacity to handle or prevent a crisis?
Absolutely not: there’s another big reason to consider.
You Have No System to Handle Change
The problems and implications of not having a system to handle change
are vast. You’re always playing catching up, feel like the business is
running you, and are without enough time to focus on what’s important.
Let’s first look at three common ways leaders react to
change:
How do you handle change? Which apply to you and your people?
Crisis Mode: You are in and out of crisis mode, coasting without any kind
of system. You spend a lot of time putting out fires, and wondering why
the problem was not caught sooner.
Problem Focused: You are concerned and usually implement short-term
solutions or band-aid problems. However, your solutions are not directed
at the root cause or eliminating future problems, so you often see them
resurface again.
Strategic-Success Focused: You have a focused vision, build on to what
you know, and put it into action. You evaluate, strategize, redirect, and
then proceed.
The big difference between the Strategic-Success Focused leader
and the others is they have already made change a habit. This
leader has imprinted a clear and effective system for predicting and
managing change into their business and team.
Strategic-Success Focused leaders don’t have one crisis after
another
Instead, they create a system to handle change. This allows them to
focus on what’s really important, whether its driving revenue, creating
new products or services, mentoring others, or enjoying the lifestyle their
position has afforded them.
Why is this so important?
Because without a way to keep your business and team on track through
an environment of change, you’ll continue to waste a lot of time, money,
and valuable energy on reinventing the wheel anytime something
unexpected comes up.
Next, a cycle of problems seems to begin. The first of which is, how do
you end the cycle? Where do you start?
Start with your mindset.
The best way to begin is to transform your mindset from that of crisis
mode or problem focused to more of a Strategic-Success Focus with the
following Six Success Habits:
- Go ahead, mimic the Strategic-Success Focused
leader...
- 1. Make change a habit.
Strategically plan when it’s needed not just once a year. Use
strategy as an ongoing living tool to evaluate and redirect your
resources for the greatest impact.
2. Prepare for change.
Hard-wire your decision-making methods to extend beyond present
circumstances and forward into future considerations. Keep asking,
what will happen next, until you have a set of favorable possibilities.
Predicting the future is unlikely, although you can increase your
decision-making success rate with a strategic review of possible
outcomes.
3. Get excited by change.
Leave behind stalling statements like Yeah but, and replace them
with pioneering phrases such as What if? Launch strategic change
from a position of partnership across all levels of the organization.
4. Drive growth through change.
When you hear a good idea that will lead to the results you’re after,
implement it. When you see something working in your business or
department, ask how it happened. Always be thinking about the
next step.
5. Create smart systems to handle change.
Automate and simplify what’s working. If it’s not working, ask your
subject matter experts (employees) to create a system to
streamline and update changes so that routine work is highly
efficient. This helps save time and money, and redirects profits
upwards. Money spent on doing routine work a different way each
time is being wasted.
6. Imprint change as one of your most effective patterns of
success.
As a leader, share your vision with your people. Create a visionary
memory system so vast that knowledge and understanding are
connected throughout your organization and teams.
in regard to change. Are you ahead of the game every time?
My suggestion: Set a plan in motion to transform your business and
team into one that gets extraordinary results amidst change or any
challenging backdrop.
About the author:
Diana Keith, people strategist and business psychologist, works
with leaders and their teams to increase innovation, morale, and
productivity. See her website http://www.mlevelsystems.com to
get your free people strategy guide for success.
Copyright © Diana Keith, M-Level Systems Inc.
Back to the home page or contact us if you have questions or want to
schedule a complimentary consultation.
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