Six tips that can benefit success-driven leaders
Success-driven leadership must have a strong purpose to be effective. Making money is great, but in order to truly reach high success, a bigger purpose must be the focus. Are you helping people? Are you creating something new and innovative? Are you bringing positive change into the world? These are the type of questions that leaders should be asking themselves in order to grow.
This purpose then serves as the cornerstone to your business.The successful leader is able to communicate this purpose with the rest of the organisation and create a high-level of buy-in. When leaders and their teams commit to and believe in the central purpose, success is inevitable.
Here are 6 tips that can benefit success-driven leaders:
Find what gets you up in the morning. Establish what is most important to you. Whatever you think about when you get up every morning is usually the thing you are passionate about. Find a way to turn this into your purpose. It will be the most rewarding thing you can do.
Make purposeful decisions. As a leader of an organisation, there are lots of decisions to be made. Lots of times the traditional choice is easy to make, but you need to make sure it aligns with your purpose or else eventually the whole culture you are trying to build will come tumbling down. Even though it may seem like there aren’t any ways around it, just remember, you always have a choice.
Find team micro-purposes. Each team should have its own purpose that they can get behind and be motivated to use in order to produce results. These micro-purposes are relatives of the main purpose. Once a team can buy-in to knowing why they exist, they get a new motivation that brings high-fulfilment. This, in turn, breeds success.
Fight off attacks on your purpose. Remember, this purpose is everything. You cannot allow other people’s views or influence infiltrate your purpose. Not everyone will see your vision and that’s ok. Move on as appropriate.
Shift focus to giving rather than getting. Any true purpose excels at providing value to other people. When you are authentic with it, personal success will come and it will be more rewarding.
Use failure to get better. Purposeful leaders see failure as a stepping stone. They don’t see it as a setback, but rather as an identifier of an area of improvement. They welcome failure because it reveals what works and what doesn’t.
Key takeaways
- The successful leader is able to create a high-level of buy-in.
- Find what you are passionate about and turn this into your purpose.
- Each team should have its own purpose that they can get behind.
- Any true purpose excels at providing value to other people.
