Leaders who want to keep the motivation, direction and success of their teams need to handle the role of coaches, mentors, mothers and fathers or amateur psychologists. Pressure on performqance, moreover, continues to grow and only those who are able to develop their people and to meet corporate objectives can succeed. How? Successful leaders exhibit five basic types of behavior.
1. People on the first place
The main task of a leader is to help others achieve their goals. To make people follow you, you have to prefer their golas to your own ones.
2. Connection
Interpersonal relations need emotional connection. Successful leaders do not focus on their position and power but on building genuine emotional connection with their people.
3. Settings for victory
The basic principle of leadership is receiving pay for what your people, not you, do. You can, therefore, increase their performance by making it easier for them to win. That means everything from education through placement in the correct positions to the development of strategies for achieving business goals.
4. Building trust
Long-term relationships can hold together only on the basis of trust. It means to consistently maintain professional behavior and promises.
5. Positive emotional experience
Positive emotional experience help maintain relationships, encourage employee motivation and loyalty.
-kk-