subject: The Optimum Combination For Business Success; Leadership Strategies And Business Management [print this page] Are you one of those people who look at leadership strategies and business management separately, as being two different disciplines requiring two different people or perhaps kinds of people? Maybe that's true for some but, based on the experiences of successful organization leaders, if you want your company to grow and evolve you need to be both a leader and a manager.
Of course, if you simply want to maintain the status quo, all that you need to do is manage. And we all know from nature, everything is either growing or it is dead.
Your business may be dead, if you think you can manage your way out of today's economic environment. You may think you can manage your way around your competitors. Or you may think you can manage your way to greater profitability. Well that might work for the short term, and the short term gets shorter and shorter all the time.
Assuming you are someone who wants their company to grow, here's a look at business leadership management, a combined approach that can help you become an effective leader. You probably already know how to manage. But, do you know how to inspire and encourage creativity?
It is your employees who will determine whether you are a leader or not. They will let you know by following you, unless they choose not to. Leaders must inspire followers to follow them of their own accord.
In order to inspire, you need to have a vision of where you want your company to be in the future, and you need to share that vision with your employees. Inspirational leadership and business management can and should go hand in hand.
Many managers actually kill creativity by requiring their employees to perform mundane tasks on a daily basis. That's boring, leading to poor workmanship, accidents, workplace conflict - all sorts of things, and none of them good for business.
With effective business leadership management, you can make work fun - not with everybody running around playing practical jokes on one another, but fun in the sense that they enjoy being there.
Your employees will look forward to coming in every day. They will be more productive and your business will continue to grow. You can tell right away how successful your new work environment is working out by consulting your sick leave rolls, your employees trips to the doctor, and the workplace grievances filed in HR.
In order to progress, you need to manage and lead. Think of yourself as two people. You are the manager that averts threats and reduces weaknesses. But, you are also the leader that seizes opportunities and amplifies strengths.
Learning how to do this is not simple. It won't happen overnight, but you did not get into the situation overnight either. You need to realize that you will make mistakes and be willing to change your own ways of doing things.
Business leadership management is about getting your employees to abandon their old habits, if necessary. But, it may also be about giving up your own habits. Just because that's the way it was done in the past has nothing to do with how you will approach it in the future If your strategy is not working, if your people are not producing and your business is not growing, then you may be the one that needs to change.
Some successful executives believe that managers slow things down, while leaders keep the business running smoothly. One of the most effective vehicles for developing both leadership for the future and enlightened management strategies is to actively participate in a peer to peer mastermind group.
And the best of them are self selected, where you and your peers organize and manage your own group without any experts, mastermind group facilitators, and without anyone being on the payroll. Watch the video described below to see if this leadership and business management development strategy makes sense to you.
