Imagine a World where your employees and team members look forward to coming to work. They know the vision and values of the company, and they are grateful to be a part of your team. Not only do they love their work, but they refer like-minded people to join the organization. Sound too good to be true? It’s not!
In my career, I made plenty of decisions that impacted the people and the business. Though many earned me awards, there were others that cost me great people, had a negative impact on the
business, and caused me to question whether I should be a manager or not. I realized people would do as I told them to, but it only lasted a short while. The more I demanded, the less I was seeing in results. In that time, I had a choice to make. Either walk away or change. I evolved!
Be YOU was written at the request of others. Those that I have helped transform their teams and organizations were concerned about sustaining it. Fair concern. Be YOU engages your leaders and teams to interact with the concepts and best practices.
Your organization can’t afford to employ managers any longer! You need leaders, at every level. Today’s executive has to operate so differently than even 10 years ago.
Back to the word manager, when it comes to people, is just wrong. You hire people for their genius and creativity, but then give them a manager to control and contain them? Nonsense! You want your key people to manage the books, but they should collaborate with team members to engage their genius, apply their creativity, and shine! Lead people to be bold where they excel and create teams of diverse strengths, so they don’t have to drudge through what they aren’t strong in, because guess what? What is one persons’ weakness is another persons’ strength!
People want to be included. They want to be a part of the solution, and you should encourage that! The greatest leaders put themselves between their people and harms’ way, and they champion those (and their ideas) that are creating the change needed. The commitment and responsibility to those they lead should be their compass. The teams’ dedication and success are their reward.
If you are saying YES right now, then ignoring the call to act will fall under one of the bad decisions you made, not me. It’s time to put a stick in the spokes and create the change you all want and need!
