Owning the WHY

2 January, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Great organisations have a Purpose (a WHY) that is beyond just making money, and it is this Purpose that provides the organisation’s motivational power to make things happen.

Successful leaders understand they have two key responsibilities: 1) Developing the WHY (the purpose of the organisation) that everyone in the organisation can “OWN”, and 2) Enabling the Culture that will embrace the WHY and keep it alive every day within the people in the organisation.

You could say that successful leaders are the WHY people, and you can think of the CEO, not as the Chief Executive Officer, but as the Chief Explaining Officer…their job is the Explain the WHY.

Successful leaders Explain the WHY with such power that everyone in the organisation OWNS IT.

Filed Under: Blog, Communications, Culture, Influence

Owning your Beliefs

28 December, 2011 By Leave a Comment

You have probably heard the expression “stay true to your beliefs“.   For leaders, this is one of the most important objectives to keep in mind.

Leaders are role models for their teams, meaning that their habits and behaviours have a great influence on their people.  The foundation of these habits and behaviours are their beliefs, and here is where there is a big difference between the great leaders and the average leaders.

Great leaders have strong beliefs that guide their actions, and this helps them to behave consistently in all circumstances. They own their beliefs. The average leaders don’t truly understand what they believe in, and are often influenced by others, driving them to behave different depending on the situation.

Do you OWN your beliefs?

 

 

 

Filed Under: Blog, Influence, Self Awareness

Owning the Relationship

13 November, 2011 By Leave a Comment

How many times have you heard people say “that’s their problem”?  Probably a lot….

However, you probably haven’t heard this expression from successful leaders.  They know that that making relationships the responsibility of others can only weaken their influence, and with everyone.  These leaders take ownership of their relationships and look to themselves first in taking the lead to resolve any problems.

Think about this for yourself.  Do you have more control in a car taking the wheel in the driver’s seat or sitting in the passenger’s seat?  The more responsibility you take for your relationships with others, the more influence you will have, and the more success you will achieve.

Filed Under: Blog, Influence, Relationships

Owning Participation

5 November, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Successful leaders take ownership of their participation, and also ownership in the participation of members of their team.  These leaders know that greater influence and stronger solutions are gained through participation.

First, it’s their own participation in meetings with other stakeholders.  Successful leaders know that they need to express their views in order to influence others, and very often they will “plant seeds’ that they can follow-up with fellow participants in one-on-one meetings to expand further on their key points and to strengthen their influence with these participants.

Second, successful leaders know that they need to use the full power of their team in order to get the strongest solutions designed and implemented.  They view it as their responsibility to structure meetings so that everyone in their team participates and expresses their ideas and views.  These leaders know that they get two benefits:  1)  They get stronger solutions with everyone’s input and 2) People who see their input in parts of the final solution will always take more ownership for the whole solution too.

Participate to influence, and get everyone participating for stronger solutions and stronger ownership for those solutions.

 

Filed Under: Blog, Influence, Outcomes

Owning YOU

30 October, 2011 By 1 Comment

A leader’s success in motivating others is often in direct proportion to how he or she understands themselves.  You could say this is all about You Owning YOU.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will use the passion and strengths you have, and then surround yourself with people who have strengths within your weaknesses.  Also, by understanding yourself, you have the foundation by which you can adapt your behaviour to others in order to be more effective in influencing those around you.  So you see…greater success starts with you understanding yourself.

How much time do you invest in understanding yourself?

(Owning YOU)

Filed Under: Blog, Influence, Self Awareness

Owning your Communication

28 October, 2011 By Leave a Comment

When most people think about their communications, they are thinking about what they are going to write in that email or what they are going to say to others.  However, is that the real outcome of communication?  Not really, as what you say or write is just an action, it is not really the outcome (achievement) of the communication.

The outcome of your communications is getting others to Think, Feel and Do.

Successful communicators just don’t own what they say, but they own what others think, feel and do (the outcome or result from their communications).  Again, it is the difference between owning actions (say and write) versus achievement (getting others to think, feel and do something).

Your power of influence will increase dramatically when your communications focus on getting others to think, feel and do.

Filed Under: Blog, Communications, Influence