How shifting from reactive measures to a proactive approach can transform your overall team's productivity and overall organisational culture.

Feeling frustrated with your team's productivity lately??

You're not alone.?

Many organisations struggle to find solutions and often lean on reactive measures like micromanaging, laying down strict rules, and punishing or blaming individuals and other teams.?

But these are not effective anymore.

While the goal is to address conflict immediately, these traditional reactive measures only affect our team negatively.

It doesn’t create a safe space for them to be seen and heard.

It makes them feel more stressed, overwhelmed and unappreciated.

It leads more team members to burnout which decreases the productivity of the whole organisation.

Overall, it creates a toxic culture for the organisation.

What if there's a better way than relying on reactive measures??

An important principle that I teach my clients to develop not only a better work environment but also to develop the potential and self-leadership capacities of their team members is this:

Self-leadership and Below-and-Above-the-Line Thinking.

Below-and-above-the-line thinking is one of the most common thinking behaviour models which is also known as Cause and Effect or Results VS Reason.?

This helps track where you and others are at all times in terms of body and verbal language and thinking and feeling.?

Imagine that there's a horizontal line.

If you're operating above the line, you take ownership, are responsible for your actions and accountable for your outcomes.?

You are positive, curious, and open. You make things happen.

If you're operating below the line, you blame others, make excuses, and are in denial.?

You procrastinate, react, are stuck, get overwhelmed, fear failure, you are a victim and everything is a problem.?

By promoting self-leadership and empowering teams to adopt above-the-line thinking, you help transform your organisation:

• To have team members who take ownership and be accountable for their actions and outcomes.
• To become solution-focused, display a positive attitude, curiosity, and an open mind.
• To increase performance and have better decision-making.

If you found this interesting and want to talk more about how we can incorporate the right strategies to develop your organisation’s culture and reach greater heights, here are 4 ways I can help:

• Book your FREE 30-Minute Strategic Business Audit Session. Every month, I open up my calendar for a handful of leaders to have their organisations be audited by me. On our call, I’ll be helping you identify the current challenges that’s affecting your results and develop the best action plan to move forward so you can gain the clarity, impact, and success you need to elevate your organisation’s performance. There’s only a limited number of spots, so go check if there are available spaces left — Click here.
• Take the FREE Organisational Culture Assessment. This assessment tool is designed to evaluate various aspects of your organisational culture including employee engagement, performance, and mental wellbeing. There are no right or wrong answers, just your opinion and assessment based on your experience and observation. It is for you to gain awareness of where your teams & organisation are at, and explore the best strategies to create the high performing culture you desire. Click here to start the assessment.
• Book your FREE 30-Minute Leadership Strategy Session. Every month, I open up my calendar for a handful of leaders to have a 1:1 session with me. On our call, we dive into actionable strategies on how to overcome the challenges that get in the way of your team’s self-leadership so you can cultivate, inspire and influence high performance within your teams. There’s only a limited number of spots, so go check if there are available spaces left — Click here
• Join our Self-Leadership Mastery Program and help your team learn at their own pace. The key to success, no matter what stage you are at in the leadership life cycle, is your own self-leadership. This program is designed for all – whether you are a long-term team leader or an emerging leader. If you have newly onboarded team leaders in your organisation who are new to self-leadership, this is the right course to have. Click here to find out more.
• Work with me privately. If you’d like to work directly with me and my team to craft an individualised strategy for you so you can accelerate your team’s effectiveness... just send me a message with the word ‘ACCELERATE’... introduce yourself, your career or business, and your #1 roadblock when it comes to leading your team or organisation, and I’ll get you all the details.

Cheers,

Linda