My Leadership
Successful CEOs have strong sense of leadership, which is different from having great management skills. Management deals with the planning, assignment, execution, and monitoring of tasks, activities, and resources on daily and short-term basis, whereas leadership addresses larger core organizational missions, objectives, and company fundamentals with long-term view in mind. Excellent leadership skills are required to move companies forward.
My strongest leadership skills include creating vision and direction, strategic thinking and planning, building results-producing teams, leading people, and initiating change. In my personal leadership philosophy, these are the most important leadership qualities for any organization.
Creating Vision and Direction
Clear corporate vision, direction, and objectives are not only necessary to bring all stakeholders and management teams on the same page, but are also the foundation for successfully leading people. Therefore, they must be communicated to everyone in the organization to ensure decision-making, tasks, and resources at all levels are focused squarely on corporate goals.
Strategic Thinking and Planning
Developing long-term business plans helps think through company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, target markets, as well as future changes and trends in customer needs, technologies, and outside forces such as competition, legislation, etc. Combining the knowledge of the past and current situation with foresight is used to form major strategic decisions in business planning.
Building Results-Producing Teams
A pillar of success for any company is its people. However, employees need to feel they belong to a team with others. A group of people acting as individuals will not perform as well as those working as a team. Results-producing teams are made by empowering teams and their leaders to make decisions, inspiring them towards correct objectives, helping them succeed all the way, as well as providing and seeking feedback both ways.
Leading People
Strong people management skills are vital for managers and leaders. However, leading people includes something more. Leaders establish a corporate culture by their communication, decisions, actions, examples, and policies. They also treat all employees honestly and with respect, as well as delegate and motivate their staff. They listen and communicate well. Leaders coach.
Initiating Change
Complacency, lack of results, end of product or business life cycles, shifting trends, quality concerns, customer complaints, and sometimes external factors may require major corporate changes. Great leaders not only recognize them early, but also initiate the changes needed in the best interest of the company. Typically, people and organizations resist change, and thus, leaders need to also drive the necessary, and sometimes unpopular changes through while leading people and building results-producing teams.
In most of my leadership positions in the past 30 years, as well as in my consulting work, I have been recruited, promoted or hired to address major problems or challenges with corporate performance. I have mastered to quickly assess the complex issues surrounding such challenges and find solutions to them by using all of the above leadership skills effectively.
My strongest leadership skills include creating vision and direction, strategic thinking and planning, building results-producing teams, leading people, and initiating change. In my personal leadership philosophy, these are the most important leadership qualities for any organization.
Creating Vision and Direction
Clear corporate vision, direction, and objectives are not only necessary to bring all stakeholders and management teams on the same page, but are also the foundation for successfully leading people. Therefore, they must be communicated to everyone in the organization to ensure decision-making, tasks, and resources at all levels are focused squarely on corporate goals.
Strategic Thinking and Planning
Developing long-term business plans helps think through company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, target markets, as well as future changes and trends in customer needs, technologies, and outside forces such as competition, legislation, etc. Combining the knowledge of the past and current situation with foresight is used to form major strategic decisions in business planning.
Building Results-Producing Teams
A pillar of success for any company is its people. However, employees need to feel they belong to a team with others. A group of people acting as individuals will not perform as well as those working as a team. Results-producing teams are made by empowering teams and their leaders to make decisions, inspiring them towards correct objectives, helping them succeed all the way, as well as providing and seeking feedback both ways.
Leading People
Strong people management skills are vital for managers and leaders. However, leading people includes something more. Leaders establish a corporate culture by their communication, decisions, actions, examples, and policies. They also treat all employees honestly and with respect, as well as delegate and motivate their staff. They listen and communicate well. Leaders coach.
Initiating Change
Complacency, lack of results, end of product or business life cycles, shifting trends, quality concerns, customer complaints, and sometimes external factors may require major corporate changes. Great leaders not only recognize them early, but also initiate the changes needed in the best interest of the company. Typically, people and organizations resist change, and thus, leaders need to also drive the necessary, and sometimes unpopular changes through while leading people and building results-producing teams.
In most of my leadership positions in the past 30 years, as well as in my consulting work, I have been recruited, promoted or hired to address major problems or challenges with corporate performance. I have mastered to quickly assess the complex issues surrounding such challenges and find solutions to them by using all of the above leadership skills effectively.
