Leadership IV: Leader’s Challenges – Potential, Opportunity and Change

Leadership – starting points (in each module from a different point of view)

• Orientation to people, positive attitude and strategic thinking
• Inspiration from the stories of real leaders

Development of the potential of collaborators

Challenge for leaders: “Let’s work on their development and use their potential and not have to work for them and be responsible for their mistakes.”

• Perception of co-workers’ potential
• Effort and result
• Employee performance analysis (Performance, Activity, Competence, Motivation)
• Collaborator development tools

An opportunity or a problem

• I see and engage before I can just react (proactivity)
• Indicators of problems and opportunities (KPI, company culture, errors and complaints, waste)
• Change is an opportunity, not a threat

Change – a reflection of the changes we have experienced

We know how to reliably crash on the rocks of the inertia of well-established systems and habits. Do we know how to swim through the tide of change?

• Paradigm, rejection of changes, resistance to change
• The reason for the change, the goal of the change, how to get colleagues excited about the change

How does a leader communicate? Inspirational communication – communication that influences

• Basic rules of communication about change, what needs to be talked about
• Presentation of change and handling objections to change

Important conversations

• How to conduct conversations about how I perceive a co-worker? Potential, strengths and weaknesses, clarification of emotions and feelings, stop slander and other practical situations

Research of a selected book on leadership

Possible assignments

• Preparation for motivational change presentation
• Analysis of possible objections to the change
• Analysis of key players’ attitudes towards change
• A proposal for a proactive response to an emerging problem
• Analysis of the subordinate manager’s potential and development plan proposal

Seeing things as they are is good. Seeing things as they could be – is very good. Making things better – it’s great. Being able to get others excited about it means success.