How Do You Develop Your People?

Do you want to improve processes and profit? You must first start with the people

Becoming a highly effective leader is not a job position, and it is not part of a job description. Being a highly effective leader is a way of life, it is a lifelong commitment.

Regardless of what level you are in your organisation, whether it is CEO, Director, Head of department, Manager, or Supervisor, all highly effective leaders have the same responsibility.

That responsibility is to create the culture within their team that they lead, and to develop their team to live and breathe that culture.

Whatever level you are at right now on the leadership ladder, I want to help you to start thinking like a highly effective leader.

You are reading this post because you want to change your mindset, and you want to either become a highly effective leader, or you want to become an even better highly effective leader for your team and organisation.

If you are working on yourself every day, and I want to give you some further tools to help you develop further.

You will have the ability and the tools to lead the way in your organisation. You can create the right culture for your organisation as a whole, not just in your team, or your department.

It is my job to help you to increase your influence with everyone in your organisation. When you are in a position to increase your influence, you will know that you have reached the top level of being a highly effective leader.

You will become known as “the man/woman of the people.” First of all by developing your team, they will spread your influence throughout the organisation for you.

Your influence throughout your organisation will be a far and wide. The people of the organisation will make the decision to see you as their leader, and will follow you.

The will make this decision because of who you are and your character, not because of what you can do or the position you currently hold. That is when you have created the right culture…a leadership culture.

When the organisation is led through a leadership culture, you will have free reign to create and develop more leaders. Eventually you will create highly effective team players and leaders.

You do not have to be at the top of the organisation to have this kind of influence throughout the organisation. You just need the right mindset.

Most of the organisations I have worked with throughout my engineering career, whenever they wanted to make a big change, they would always bring in a consultant to help.

I was never a person who liked consultants, especially when they were telling me how to lead my team when they had only been there a few days. I always thought that change could be grown from within, we just needed to work together to do it.

Not be told how to manage or lead a team by a consultant who didn’t have a lot of experience.

I didn’t want to show the managers how to lead teams. My objective was to help them create a leadership culture that would benefit the whole organisation, and help them create and develop highly effective team players and leaders. 

All the best,

Tom Lawrence (Highly Effective Leader)