Four Ways Leaders Achieve Great Results… Continually
Most leaders can deliver results and increase the speed at which they happen, but achieving them continually can be a more significant challenge.
Great Leaders Go Deeper to Achieve Continual Results
Contributed by Brent Filson.
For many years, I have been teaching leaders of all ranks and functions to build stronger organisations by delivering ‘more results, faster and continually’.
Most leaders can deliver results and increase the speed at which they happen, but achieving them continually can be a more significant challenge. My advice to leaders is to immerse themselves deeply in four key areas to build an environment of perpetual success.
Deep Expectations
Expectations can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, so take a moment to consider whether yours go far enough. When leaders commit themselves to delivering more results, faster and continually, they tend to create new contours for success.
Build your deep expectations around five key drivers of results within your organisation:
- Strategies that marshal functions around central, organising concepts
- Tactics that execute those strategies
- Resources to support the tactics
- People skills to implement the tactics
- Leaders that motivate people toward accomplishment
Deep Relationships
Ordering people to do a job may get results and may even cause them to happen faster, but it is unlikely to deliver them continually. For this to happen, leaders must cultivate deeper bonds with their teams.
The power of relationships has been demonstrated since the dawn of history. In all cultures, whenever great things needed to be done, leaders had to speak from the heart. Yet many leaders feel uncomfortable doing this.
A good exercise is to think of an instance when a strong relationship helped to achieve an organisational objective. Picture yourself interacting with that person, and consider what was said and done, and in what environment it took place. Use this as a basis of action to cultivate the same deep bond in all of your professional relationships.
Deep Processes
Processes are more than just the unique ways your organisation operates. As a systematic series of mental or physical steps, they contribute a huge amount to achieving consistent and continual results while promoting deep relationships.
One of the best ways to achieve continual results from your processes is the Leadership Talk. Rather than ordering team members to do tasks, motivate them to proactively want to perform those tasks. This is a key quality that separates average leaders from great leaders.
Deep Results
Identify objectives that build an environment in which continual results become easier to achieve. For example, you could use the Leadership Imperative which states
“I will lead people in such a way that we not only achieve the results we need, but also become better people.”
Helping others to improve is the pinnacle of effectiveness for leaders. If people see that working with you is going to improve their performance, boost their careers and enrich their lives, they tend to be more motivated to contribute their best.
How can training help me?
Continual results demand continual development to enhance skills, expand capabilities, and stay up to date with the trends that shape modern organisations. Here are a few articles that may help:
- Read about the five things good leaders do every day. Five things good leaders do every day
- Delivering more results faster and continually demands a strong leadership style.
Learn about the characteristics that drive success. What is a good leadership style? - How do leaders persuade stakeholders to perform tasks?
Read our four steps for persuasive leadership. Persuasive leadership: four steps to success
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