| Six Lenses to Leadership Effectiveness
Addressing the key question of “what’s most important for me to demonstrate as a leader?”
How often have you found yourself talking with colleagues about the behaviour of other leaders in your organization? It’s a pretty common experience, especially when something major or challenging is underway (e.g. emergence of new priorities, restructuring, or a change of players in the leadership ranks).
And if you think about it – you’re likely the subject of similar conversations as well – especially in terms of how you ‘show up’ during challenging situations. Do you manage to maintain the key essence of your leadership ‘core’ or do you find yourself carried away by circumstances? Do you sometimes regret your actions after the fact, realizing that you sacrificed some key belief, value or principle in the ‘heat of the moment’?
To get at this dilemma, I find it’s helpful to encourage people to think about how they want to portray themselves to the world and how they want to be seen by others. Understanding your response, in advance, to the question ‘what’s most important for me to demonstrate as a leader?’ is fundamental to understanding what’s required to consistently align your actions with your beliefs, values and principles. And it’s definitely required during periods of rapid change and high demand.
During my early days, I used to take a more generic approach to this question (i.e. ‘how do you want to be seen as a leader’) without a lot of consideration to the actual people and situations in which we typically interact. I now realize how important it is for leaders to be........ (cont'd)
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