How to Make the Most of Production in Leadership

Leading people is not just about having a position in an organization or cozying around with your team. A good leader would also strive to deliver results while maintaining healthy relationship with his team. If you ever have the opportunity to lead your team and get to Level 3 together, here are some things which you can do to make the most of it:

#1 - Understand how your personal gifts contribute to the vision

• How your gifts and abilities can be used proactively to further the vision of the organization.
• Know where every person adds value, define each team member's area of contribution and figure out how they can work together to make the team most effective.
• It starts from you - if you want your team to be good at what they do, you need to be good at what you do.

#2 - Cast vision for what needs to be accomplished

• Fuzzy communication leads to unclear direction, which produces sloppy execution.
• Productive leaders create a clear link between the vision of the organization and the everyday production of the team.
• Help people define the success of the vision.
• Help people to commit to the success of the vision.
• Help people experience success.

#3 - Begin to develop your people into a team

• Team members should complement one another.
• Team members should understand their mission.
• Team members should receive feedback about their performance.
• Team members should work in an environment conducive to growth and inspiration.

#4 - Prioritize the things that yield high return

• Learn not to only get a lot done, but also get a lot of the right things done.
• Stay in your areas of strength (where your efforts yield the highest return) and out of areas of weakness (where it cripples you).
• Try to hire, train and position people in such a way that
• 80% of the time they work in their strength zone.
• 15% of the time they work in their learning zone.
• 5% of the time they work outside their strength zone.
• 0% of the time they work in their weakness zone.

#5 - Be willing and ready to be a change agent

• To be a effective change agent, find common ground between you and your team, instead of pointing out differences between you and them and convince them to change.
• Look for common ground in vision, values, relationships, attitude, communication.

#6 - Never lose sight of the fact that results are your goal

• Know that results always matter, no matter what the situation is.
• Be accountable for your productivity no matter what.

Practice these and lead your team towards increasing productivity of your organization!