Required Leadership

Have you noticed the common traits the best followers and leaders share? Have you worked for leaders who create inspiring visions, highlight the priorities, trust and enable you to make a significant contribution to making a meaningful difference the way that you want to?

Do you have colleagues who identify the key issues, translate them into achievable actions, in priority order, and apply themselves to making headway?

These are the leaders we love to work for, and the followers we crave – both practicing “Required Leadership”.

They anticipate the future, drive the change and learn in an Agile way.

The role of “Required Leadership” is driving the required change, at all levels. Spotting challenge and opportunities and imagining the required action.

It takes courage (parking the self-doubt and imposter syndrome) and ‘having a go’ with commitment. Like a surfer, forcing themselves through waves that would knock others backwards, because they understand the need to lean into it for the satisfaction of riding the wave later.

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BTW “Required Leadership” is why your role never looks like your Job description.

Great, you’ve outgrown it, well done.

Now get yourself some balance, work out what you’re going to stop doing (downsize, delete, delegate, delay, do smarter) so that you have more time and energy to drive the change and deliver what really matters. ?

If you want someone to connect with your people, offer them moments of insight, look at things in a new way, and help them enjoy overcoming the organisation’s obstacles, then we can help you retain talent and create sustained success.

If you’d rather pick some key points out of the above and get curious about how you can make a positive difference, start here…

Unclench your jaw, relax the muscles in your forehead, let your shoulders drop and go loose, take three or four deep breaths and start thinking about what matters most.