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Critical leadership capabilities: If you were asked as a leader: "What do you like about managing people?" How would you answer?

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Date Posted: 2018/04/18
Umar Waqas Tayyab Umar Waqas
by Umar Waqas Tayyab Umar Waqas , HSE Manager , Netkom Technologies (Huawei)

Bad AnswerI have been working towards a management position for five years and feel like I deserve to lead a team of my own now.

Good AnswerI am passionate about the work we do here, and I feel that my experience will be very valuable in leading the team towards greater success.

 

Nadjib RABAHI
by Nadjib RABAHI , Freelancer , My own account

I like being excellent: knowing people and earning their love is the key to excellence

Celeste Ann Mascarenhas
by Celeste Ann Mascarenhas , Health Care Assistant, Level 3 Nursing , Carlton Court Care Home

Thank you for the invitation.

All leadership development is designed with a primary focus on seven critical leadership capabilities. Identified by a diverse group of senior University leaders, these capabilities represent the essence of the leadership the University and work places needs today and will require into the future. Our leaders are fully developed in managing people and companies to achieve their goals.  Failures and successes are part of the agenda and a requirement to learn.

Neuroscience corroborates this point. When the virus or an amygdala registers a threat to our safety, arteries harden and thicken to handle an increased blood flow to our limbs in preparation for a fight-or-flight response. In this state, we lose access to the social engagement system of the limbic brain and the executive function of the prefrontal cortex, inhibiting creativity and the drive for excellence. From a neuroscience perspective, making sure that people feel safe on a deep level should be job #1 for leaders.

Ten factors contributing to success towards critical thinking capabilities are (1) Empowering others to self-organise  (2) Foster a sense of connection and belonging  (3)  Show openness to new ideas and fosters organisational learning  (4)  Nutures Growth  (5)  Help me grow into the next-generation leader  (6)  Creates a feeling of succeeding and failing together  (7)  Provide safety for trial and error  (8)  Has the flexibility to change opinions  (9)  Is committed to my ongoing trainings  (10)  Provides goals and objectives with loose guidelines/ direction.  

Demonstrates strong ethics and provides a sense of safety.

This theme combines two of the three most highly rated attributes: “high ethical and moral standards” (67% selected it as one of the most important) and “communicating clear expectations” (56%).

Taken together, these attributes are all about creating a safe and trusting environment. A leader with high ethical standards conveys a commitment to fairness, instilling confidence that both they and their employees will honor the rules of the game. Similarly, when leaders clearly communicate their expectations, they avoid blindsiding people and ensure that everyone is on the same page. In a safe environment employees can relax, invoking the brain’s higher capacity for social engagement, innovation, creativity, and ambition.

The Seven critical leadership capabilities are:

1.        Strategic thinking and acting:  It refers to the external and internal thinking on things that are most important.

2.       Responsiveness in Decision making:  In the face of ambiguity, making swift decisions in the best interest are necessary.

3.       Leading change towards higher performance:  Stimulating and guiding deliberate progress towards a clear and engaging goal.

4.       Thinking and Acting as One team:  Identifying on the whole of the work task force, as much as one’s own area, thinking one team collaborates across boundaries and promoting cohesion with others.

5.       Communicating with influence and impact:  Influencing others thinking attitude and actions through convincing dialogue based on profound knowledge and credible reasoning.  Telling a great story with conviction.  Handling sensitive information and delicate situations with  diplomacy .

6.       Fostering excellence in learning and inquiry:  Actively seeking emergent opinion and considering multiple view points.  Promoting team and organisational learning by encouraging and guiding reflection on work practices to nourish the wisdom of experience and transform knowledge into know-how.

7.       Exemplifying Personal Drive and Integrity:  Embodying the work values, being a model of ethical conduct and guiding and supporting others to do the same.  Persisting through barriers towards goal achieving.

  “Deep Fast Forwarding”  is a technique used with people to clear their minds and approach a conversation about a project gone wrong by saying, “I’m not trying to blame you. I just want to understand what happened.”

Deepak Shetty
by Deepak Shetty , GENERAL MANAGER , DAFFCO

"Managimg people  is  challenging and a Mind Game." Get to the root of the problem and keep finding solutions.

Chandrashekhar Dhole
by Chandrashekhar Dhole , Assistant Manager , Huhtamaki PPL

When managing people , I communicate with them and know their strength and weakness. I allocate them the job they can do better.

Mohammad Al baik
by Mohammad Al baik , Finance Manager , Arab Center for Engineering Studies (ACES)

Freindly relationship between me and my employees is the most important thing.

Amir  khan
by Amir khan , Consultant , JV Contractors (BACS - Bechtel, Al Mabani, CCC & Siemens)

When you volunteer your time, skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to promote the quality of life in your community, or when you find ways to positively impact individuals, organizations and issues and contribute to the common good of a community — that is civic engagement, and when you are civically engaged, you are a ...

Mohd Azhruddin Ansari
by Mohd Azhruddin Ansari , Assistant Manager , Rane NSK Steering System Ltd.

To be a Leader, I must have Team bulding skills, Clear communication & ability to give task to the right time to right person. Then only team can achieve the targets.

saifuddin khan
by saifuddin khan , General Manager Finance And Accounts , Olivetto Cafe And Lounge

By excellent Communication between each other.

Wynand Jacobs
by Wynand Jacobs , Rigger Apprentice / Qualified Rigger , Sasol 2 + 3 Secunda

First of all, as a leader, I am not a better person than the one working for me. Respect is the key to success. Employees must communicate with me in a way that they can talk to mre freely. If they have better suggestions, we talk it over during a short meeting when we both schduled. If I'm satisfied with new proposal, we'll document new proposal and I as the manager will definetely praise this employer for their positive input as a winning team. I want each and every employer to feel that they love this job because " Me, as the leader, is human" I cry, I laugh, I lead from the front!!!!!!

Osama Shahin
by Osama Shahin , football coach , TFA

To be fair and serious.

Listening to each minor points .

Organizing team .

Achieve the main target by utilizing each all available efforts 

 

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