PRAGATI LEADERSHIP STYLE

Different leaders practice, exhibit different behavioral approach to influence, motivate, and guide their team to strategize & accomplish set objectives. These different behavioral approaches of leaders are called Leadership Styles. A leadership style adopted by any leader is usually a combination of their past experiences, learnings associated with their history of success or failure, personality, family dynamics, emotional intelligence and way of thinking. Effective leadership has more to do with leadership style as it builds a culture of winning.

It is always matter of choice and luck to work under a leader who is progressive and takes care of progress of organization, people and society. Progress is also called PRAGATI. PRAGATI LEADERSHIP STYLE means moving forward, making a better future for all whom the leader is representing and serving. First stage of PRAGATI leadership style is to shed away negative thinking, stop dwelling the past, overthinking of any bad situation, trusting each team member, the environment and the process to reach the set goal . Once a leader completes first stage, he / she is ready to transform himself/herself as a PRAGATI Leader.

PRAGATI LEADERSHIP

P -? Participative with people focus & passion , R – Resourceful, A – Aspirational, G – Get to the goal, A – Always on mission mode, T – Technology user, I – Innovation focused change leader.

Participative with people focus & passion :

When a leader discusses the future goals, takes everyone’s buy in , involves everyone in decision making, it makes the goal set by the leader as everyone’s goal. A participative leader is inclusive who takes everyone along and thinks for progress of all. People follow a leader when they judge that the decision taken by the leader is in their best interest. A participative leader understands the need of the team members and align everyone’s interest to that of leader as well as of organization. It takes time and genuine interest in team members’ welfare, to build trust. When you as a leader show compassion towards team members, care for their aspirations, you will get contribution from each team member.

Participative leaders need to know people as individuals to truly understand their interests, aspirations. Some of the team members care more about long-term career development whereas some care more about organizational milestone achievements, some of the team members want to grow fast along with the organization and some care more about remuneration. When you as a leader understand about your team members’ true interests, aspirations, you can communicate with them accordingly, take their views and channelize actions to achieve goals while taking everyone along with you.

A participative leader, whether a CEO or a department head, creates a common vision by building a coalition among its members to support that vision. Building a coalition in support of an organizational vision demands a skilled use of negotiation principles, including understanding team members’ interests, creating trustworthy working relationships, and communicating in the right voice and medium. It requires the leader to connect with all the key players.

Resourceful

There is a difference between full of resources and being resourceful. As resources are limited, a PRAGATI leader thinks more of solutions with available resources. Instead of complaining, PRAGATI leader tries to find out solutions for the challenges. Resourcefulness is a highly valued skill corporates look in senior leadership roles. It's becoming even more esteemed as every corporate is becoming profit focused with optimization of resources. The budgets are being cut left, right, and the only way out is to work smarter with disruptive, innovative approach. The PRAGATI leader always works on resourceful mode. Being resourceful helps leaders to increase profit without increasing or cutting people cost (manpower), while maintaining margins and quality.

Aspirational

Leader should be aspirational who inspires team members to frame their own aspiration and align with their leaders or organization. When PRAGATI leader spells out bigger goal, vision for the organization with detailed plan to achieve the goal, he /she earns the respect of people. Leaders need to be visionary who can envision company’s future 3 years or 5 years or 10 years down the line, and take steps to realize the vision. When aspirational leader acts, follows up, tracks the progress and delivers the goal, team trusts him/her more. Then the leader builds a momentum of audacious goals which team sees as their own goal and deliver the results. When the leader says we want to become No.1, he / she has to back up aspiration with action plan. When leaders take care of team member’s aspirations, the efforts culminate into achieving greater aspiration which is nothing but culmination of individual aspirations. Leaders need to be highly aspirational yet with adaptive mindset. Leader needs to adapt as per situation and strategize to move ahead.

Get to the goal

Once a goal is set, a PRAGATI leader never rests. He/she plots the track, goes into details and takes charge himself. Depending on the team size and capabilities, the leaders delegate tasks and keeps on monitoring the progress. Leaders should be a doer not a doubter. PRAGATI leaders look for skill upliftment of team, market disruptions, new ideas, new products , partnerships to fill the gap and get to the goal.

Always on mission mode

PRAGATI leader is always on mission mode to achieve the next milestone: Once the legendary cricketer Kapil Dev had said in an interview that he never keeps trophies or certificates on walls of his home. The reason he cited was he never wants to get tied to his past achievements. He believes in achieving next milestones, newer milestones. A PRAGATI mindset leader sets big goals, achieves it, and then sets a newer, bigger goal for self as well as team. A PRAGATI Leader achieves a state of inner stability and balance who is never disturbed by the ups and downs of life, neither overjoyed by victories nor crushed by defeats. He/she always gets ready for the next milestone. He/she is always on the roll for the next goal.

Technology user

A PRAGATI mindset Leader is a heavy technology believer and user. He/she uses latest technology for better outcomes in operation, strategic goal to build a better future for internal, external customers as well as society. A PRAGATI leader always looks for new technologies which can improve productivity of team, fasten the processes, enable in tracking the progress and measure outcomes. He/ she adopts latest technologies and embraces changes. PRAGATI leader knows how to make maximum use of technology for ease of operation by team members, digitalization of work processes, to enhance productivity and increase profitability. Leaders must use technology to find solutions to challenges and empower people.

Innovation focused Change Leader

A PRAGATI leader is always focused on innovation as part of life. If there is no innovation, then it’s stagnation and there will be no growth in business. Positive changes can be brought about through innovation alone. When leaders drive innovation, it builds a culture of innovation across the organization. Team becomes resourceful instead of complaining about resources. Innovation can be used to integrate multi functions of an organization and collective efforts can lead to greater outcomes.

A PRAGATI Leader works as a change leader and brings the best of system, people to deliver best outcomes. The outcome can be higher productivity, implementation of new technologies, ease of doing business, quality of life of people, and transformational growth in business. A PRAGATI leader brings reforms in the culture if required to deliver a better future. A PRAGATI leader brings reforms to transform the existing operational processes, thought process of team members and work culture in order to make everyone perform as a team and outperform the competitors. To know more about the right change management process and be a successful change leader, please read “INDIA’S OWN VIKAS MODEL OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT”

When challenges loom like a war, a PRAGATI leader redraws strategy, upgrades processes rather than clinging to existing processes, tools, old maps. A PRAGATI leader embraces innovation like a pilot seizing the blue open sky with new technology.

When you think like a PRAGATI leader, work like a PRAGATI leader, respect your team members as a PRAGATI Leader, you, your team members and your business is bound to witness PRAGATI.

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