How simple steps for generating self awareness helps in the growth of leaders!
Posted on April 01, 2021 by Vibhuti Sharma, One of Thousands of Leadership Coaches on Noomii.
To be an effective leader requires near-constant reflection and self-evaluation to ensure you are serving yourself, your teams and your stakeholders.
How simple steps for generating self awareness supports in the growth of leaders as leaders!
Each leader develops an individual style or a set of styles in order to get work accomplished over a period of time.
Experts in Leadership have identified various styles such as coaching, democratic, commanding, visionary, pace setting etc. I see too many big words here, so have simplified the styles to micro management, complete delegation, consensus generating, playing favorites, threatening, dominating, asking for priority for their own work, talking more and working less, etc., as some possible styles of leaders.
For a general reader, simple words work!
So, back on the topic, leaders pick up a combination of these styles and tend use them as a formula or a principle for most situations. This is not deliberate, but it just happens and then this combination becomes a default way of doing things.
This default style will work sometimes, but not every time.
Effective leaders are those who can modify their styles to bring results, instead of staying stuck with their default styles.
One clear starting point on this journey of effective leadership is see one’s style during the times that it did not yield the expected outcomes.
Therefore, schedule yourself each week to review your style of leadership.
Start your self review of your leadership style by dwelling on the hypothesis that: which ever situation you failed in, it was due to your leadership style.
So identify a situation where you failed as a leader. Then identify the style that you had used in a situation. The next step would be to explore what new style you could have used. Pick a set of styles that empower you and which you sense would impact the situation.
It is important to write down the new style and keep it handy with oneself. And remember to use it when ever the opportunity shows up.
To be an effective leader requires near-constant reflection and self-evaluation to ensure you are serving yourself, your teams and your stakeholders well. This can only happen if there is a structure which encourages regular introspection of the default styles.
