Navigating the Leadership Landscape: What does good Leadership look like today?

Writing this post, got me thinking about one of my favourite Simon Sinek quotes (there are lots of favourites by the way). Quite simply;

“If you don’t understand people, you don’t understand business.”

Leaders need to know what makes their people tick and be able to successfully harness this to help their teams to achieve and deliver success.

🤝 Gone are the days of ‘the boss’. Yes leaders need to lead, but this is much more of a collaborative approach these days. Your people have ideas, views, experiences and suggestions that can help shape processes, service and business decisions – use it! Not only does this collaborative approach encourage engagement and commitment, it also means that the best of the ideas are offered up rather than this just sitting with the leader.

😇 Leadership authenticity is important, not just so that the leader can lead in a way that is true to themselves, but this breeds trust and safety for your team

💕 Empathy and understanding is needed to truly understand your team. This is at varying levels however, I have lots of examples where I see businesses wholeheartedly stand by their employees at the times when they need it most. Whilst this is obviously the right thing to do, the by product is an increase sense of loyalty, commitment and belonging from team members.

🔍 Creating clarity for your people is essential. Helping all team members understand what success looks like for them and their role is key to driving engagement and helping your people thrive. If they don’t know what good looks like or only get feedback when its an ‘improvement’ that is needed, this creates uncertainty and fuels a lack of motivation as your people don’t know what they should be driving towards.