Senior leaders demand excellence from your team. How do you manage their high expectations?
When senior leaders demand excellence, it's crucial to balance their expectations while ensuring your team remains motivated and productive. Here's how to manage this dynamic:
How do you handle high expectations from senior leaders?
Senior leaders demand excellence from your team. How do you manage their high expectations?
When senior leaders demand excellence, it's crucial to balance their expectations while ensuring your team remains motivated and productive. Here's how to manage this dynamic:
How do you handle high expectations from senior leaders?
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My 2 cents - engage- your team and together with them arrive at the performance standards - enable - your team though structured personalised development inputs proactively - especially coach on executive communication - accountability - make teams accountable after above investment to deliver
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Haroon Khan
My book "Leaders Are Not Prophets" is available on Amazon.com & worldwide, link is below
Excellence is sometimes misunderstood and mixed ups with perfection or super extra ordinary efforts. Simply, it is a consistent results demonstrated against certain parameters. You don't have to double the efforts to bring excellence. Meeting or exceeding senior leaders expectations consistently is excellence too. The only problem is if your team showed a result which was unnatural (out of the way by doubling the resources) and then senior leaders use that as a yard stick. Develop and empower your team to manager change effectively in order to meet leadership ambitious targets however they need to deliver it consistently.
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Here’s the secret sauce: Set clear, realistic goals – break them down into bite-sized, achievable targets. Communicate often – keep everyone in the loop to avoid surprises. Delegate smartly – trust your team’s strengths and let them shine. Celebrate progress, not just outcomes – leadership loves seeing growth along the way. And leaders, remember: high expectations are great, but let’s create a space where the journey is just as valued as the destination! "Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude." – Ralph Marston
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HIGH EXPECTATIONS MEAN HIGH SUPPORTS Often, some senior leaders forget their roles when they set high expectations to the team. As senior leaders, their role also Sponsors to the change agenda. Two fundamental roles of sponsor are ;1) remove barriers 2) provide supports and resources. You may request SMART supports & resources to senior leaders in order to meet such high expectations, and start to negotiate whether or not their expectations are workable.
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Managing high expectations from senior leaders requires a delicate balance. ?Open communication, clear goal-setting, and empowering your team are crucial. ?Prioritize tasks, provide necessary resources, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. ?Build strong relationships with senior leaders based on trust and respect.