Being appointed a leader does not necessarily make you one. The good news is that high performance leadership and leading at the edge are talents everyone can learn. George Kohlrieser, an organizational and clinical psychologist and Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at IMD reveals the eight paths to achieving cutting edge leadership:
1. Develop your leadership talent
Companies that have a leadership development culture excel because they become talent magnets by consistently providing people with opportunities to learn, grow and build leadership competencies. As with all talents, leadership must be developed through years of focused learning, training and practice.
2. Lead from the mind’s eye
Learning how to master the mind’s eye enables one to make choices about how one thinks, feels and acts in any given moment. The brain can be trained to look for opportunities and to go beyond obstacles, just as great athletes, musicians and actors do. Leaders who learn how to program their bodies and emotions to follow their mind will always outperform others, and personal leadership competence is a result of being aware of and regulating one’s mental states and emotions.
3. Build success through your secure base relationships
A secure base is someone who provides a sense of protection, is a source of positive inspiration and provides comfort in times of stress, frustration or failure. Very talented people often fail because they either lack secure bases or choose the wrong ones. Having the support of secure bases makes the attainment of seemingly unreachable goals possible simply because they believe in you more than you believe in yourself.
4. Lead through effective communications
A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment.
5. Leading through conflict management
Changing negative conflicts into positive engagement is crucial for organizations to perform well. High performing leaders are able to deal with disputes, disagreements and diverse points of view. Organizations that encourage people to raise difficult issues find that doing so leads to innovation, new goals and the changes needed to achieve them.
6. Leading in a fragmented world
Among the many challenges that leaders confront in the 21st century, fragmentation in executive teams and their organizations is often cited as a major barrier to execution and implementation. Leaders can learn to develop and build integrated groups and teams across global organizations, creating an organization with “enough” shared purpose and direction to make change happen.
7. Leading through strategy
Leaders face many conflicting goal, and need to explore what it means to have a strategy in the current business environment. This includes understanding both the strategic role of the leadership team within the organization and the challenges of the overall strategy process on individual leaders. By visualizing alternative futures, leaders are able to clarify potential directions and options as a basis for enabling leadership choice.
8. Leading at the edge is a journey
High performing leaders know that learning to lead at the edge is a lifetime process of discovery. By playing to win, rather than playing not to lose, leaders make work a more exciting, enjoyable and engaging place for themselves and all those around them. With this foundation, running the business, and
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