How would management tasks change if leadership skills were integrated?
- Tasks would engage interests and growth plans for employees, creating ownership and excitement.
- More purposeful in providing "context" and rationale rather than just duties.
- Ask for input on processes and systems changes
- Encourage staff
- Incorporate work/life balance for staff
- Ask for and incorporate feedback from employees to supervisors
- Have employees use Review, Reflect and Deepen
- Focus on the ‘big picture’, i.e., make decisions to help better employees rather than just getting the work done
- Manager can focus on higher order work, e.g., setting the example (modeling) for employees
- More inclusive, engaging and leading to higher level of satisfaction with work
- Empowering one’s staff through selective delegation, which can lead to their empowerment
- Encourages staff to engage with their own personal growth and development
- Connect ‘mundane’ tasks to the VMV
- Let employees problem-solve themselves for team building
- Be there as a resource but allow employees to find answers and solutions on their own
- Managers would be using SMART power rather than just Hard Power
- Move thought goes into designing conversations which leads to bigger picture outcomes with more meaning
- Less micromanagement
- Managers would provide clearer directions and expectations
- Produce future Leaders to step in and continue the learning/Leadership cycle
How would employee experience change if managers used leadership skills?
- Increase employee self-worth
- Transfer of Leadership skills
- Employees would be empowered, engaged and more creative
- Employees would be valued
- Employee sees what employee needs to be done without being told
- Employees share their ideas for improvement and fix problems – they are empowered!
- Employees would have a clear understanding of why they are here, i.e., their purpose
- Would have a team … a stronger team
- Higher quality of work with greater appreciation of the work
- More autonomy to become self-managers and learners
- Streamlining products, services, processes, etc.
- Increased satisfaction
- Better work environment
- More commitment to the VMV
- Increase of staff energy
- Staff feels inspired from finding their passion in their work
- Staff can identify their own approach to meet the end goals
- Focus on shared products and better outcomes
- Get the big picture
How do you be an engaged, self-directed learner?
- Think outside the box
- Seek novel ideas to use tools, practice and follow-up
- Apply tools to situations you know would be a success
- Actively use the tools
- Reach out to people for support who’ve been through this
- Visual reminders
- Review materials
- Adapt the tools (after you learn them)
- Teach others
- Set a goal to learn something new every day
- Make a mistake every day
- Believe in yourself
- Have fun learning – laugh a lot
- Give yourself permission to make mistakes … forgive yourself
- Understand your learning style and find ways to incorporate that into your self-study
- Understand the learning cycle and how the stages apply to what you are learning