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Leadership Style: A Surprising Way To Be In a Position of Influence

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

How wide is your “Say-Do” Gap?

The difference between what you say and what you actually do is your “Say-Do” gap. The width of this gap decides your success or failure in the roles and responsibilities you fill.

Do you make commitments?

When you make promises, no matter how small, and follow through, you build credibility.

There is a link between credibility and influence–

Credibility builds trust and greater trust leads to influence.  Credibility, trust and influence, are directly proportional to your “Say-Do” gap – the greater the difference, the less credible you are as a leader.

Be vigilant

It does not require a special talent to narrow the gap; you just have to be vigilant of your behavior. If you are not vigilant, you can easily slip into the habit of making promises without follow through. It happens gradually, gradually and then suddenly.

By consistently demonstrating this leadership style:

1.      You will inspire others around you to develop the same characteristics.

2.      You will be able to seek more out of your leadership role.

3.      You will be in a position to influence and inspire others, who rely on your leadership.

Try it and see the difference in your leadership style!

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What is Your Leadership Style?

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Do you have a role model?

As a student of Leadership Styles, you must have a role model that is worth imitating. If you don’t, then please look for one.

You have to be very discerning about what you learn

In the luxury of retrospect, I can say that as a new manager or first level leader, you will be tempted to copy your role model. Without realizing, you may adopt the principle of parallelism – to be a replica of the leader you look up to…

I am of the view that:

1.      You must have a role model.

2.      You should be able to learn a lot from his leadership style.

However, there is a caveat–

1.      The role model should be worth imitating but should not be imitated.

2.      If you try to develop a style by imitating your manager, it might look flattering to him initially, but soon you will graduate into a constant irritant with no identity.

If you are trying to be a clone,

You will always be an inferior quality of clone. Interestingly, and at every level of hierarchy, the quality of the clones will deteriorate.

Don’t graduate from the School of Parallelism

I know there is another school of thought that promotes parallelism. However, I am of the opinion that it is not a good strategy. Your role model may have a force of personality that makes him successful in spite of the flaws in the personality. What has worked for him may not be sufficient for you.

You are unique,

Therefore, discover your own leadership style. When developing a unique leadership style, imitation is NOT the best strategy.

Finally,

Your actions should reflect your deep-rooted values and attitudes and not of someone else.

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Your Leadership Style Demonstrates Your Administrative Efficiency

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Do you remember Parkinson’s Law?

“Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”

If you are unable to set time deadlines for yourself, you will stretch the work to fill the available time. A leader’s administrative efficiency starts with you.

What does administrative efficiency mean?

It   means that you need to organize your desk, remove clutter and distractions. I strongly believe that do one thing at a time rather than multi tasking everything and put finished work out of the way. If you maintain the right focus, it will take you far ahead.

Use the “FOUR – D” method to keep your focus on the right administrative tasks:

  1. Do
  2. Delegate
  3. Delay
  4. Dump

Use discretionary powers to demonstrate your Leadership Style and enhance your administrative efficiency

You are the best judge of what has to be delegated, what has to be done by you, what has to be delayed and what needs to be dropped.

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