Transcripted Summary
A true leader will support and apply effective decisions to promote and enhance the chances of great achievements.
The true leaders will know when they need to be tenacious to prioritize what the team really needs.
Decisiveness brings out the best in your team.
Discipline has a fine line between driving your team or driving them away.
Follow the seven step approach towards effective discipline to make the right decisions.
Let's have a listen to what the seven step approach is.
- Reasonable rule or work order: As a leader, you should understand the core values of your team and company and any rules.
- Notice: As a leader, you should notice what happens within your team and direct reports.
- Sufficient investigation: As a leader, have enough time to investigate - whether that is having a coffee catch-up with a colleague or team member, sitting and talking casually with team members or colleagues - and ask if they have a problem you could help with or support with.
- Fair investigation: As a leader, ask other managers and leaders if they have noticed a similar situation, and how did they go on about it?
- Proof: As a leader, anything you can gather is proof. Whether that is a screenshot, a chat, an email.
- Equal treatment: As a leader, you should have equal treatment for all.
- Appropriate discipline: As a leader, you should be aware of all ethics, any warnings that need to be provided, or any meetings for your team members that need to be put in place.
An example that I would like to share with you: The most effective teams regularly disagree.
Great leaders create safe work cultures that honor differences of opinions and allow respectful debate to take place.
Bringing a purpose, structure and strategy in place can help a team promote great achievements and serve as an example to other teams.
If this means posing certain things, that may be it.
Therefore, make your decisions very carefully.
"The best leaders don't try to be perfect. Instead, they're aware of their strengths and rely on the knowledge and skills of their team to overcome their weaknesses."
