Why Your Leadership Style Is Helping Retain Employees….Or Lose Them.

Transformational Leadership Model ( TLM)

Leadership -? The action of leading a group of people or an organization.

Within an organization, there is almost always a hierarchy. Even in the most egalitarian workplaces, it is necessary to have a leadership role - someone who directs the efforts of the team and ensures that progress is made. Leaders are often the ones who have the ability to communicate effectively, inspire their team, and provide encouragement and support when things may become difficult or stressful.

At Consciously Exposed Consulting, we appreciate leadership as a skill that can be refined through practice & reflection. We help coach executives, directors, and managers to leverage their emotional intelligence and communication skills to motivate and strengthen interpersonal connections among team members. We do this through an arts-based approach, which utilizes different creative mediums to help engender an environment where members can be honest, appropriately vulnerable, and intentional in building trust.

Before jumping into the arts-based workshops, we ensure that decision-makers and leaders understand how we use the transformational leadership model (TLM). This model is focused on supporting staff by acknowledging and aligning the realization of their goals with company success.

TLM is finding ways to align the company's extrinsic goals with the employee’s intrinsic goals. When these two are aligned or complementary - employees and management both experience more meaning in their day-to-day tasks.?

Intrinsic Goals are focused on outcomes that we inherently value

The place where leaders often get tripped up is thinking that they’ve built the kind of trust with their team where they are aware of the actual intrinsic motivations that drive behavior. Ideally, this is something that is uncovered during the interview process, but even then it’s important to acknowledge that intrinsic goals are subject to change.?

You won’t be able to align intrinsic goals with the organization’s actual goals in a meaningful way until you have an understanding of why your team members come into work, and what meaning they derive from their work. These things often have very little to do with a paycheck.?

When the company's extrinsic goals and the employees’ intrinsic goals are out of alignment, it leads to misunderstandings, resentment, and tension in the workplace. If a leader can bring the two concepts together, they will naturally see their team remain longer with the company while investing more time and energy into their work.

There are a lot of things that companies attempt to do when it comes to team building. The process isn’t always expertly executed - we’ve all been in that space where we’ve had to sit through onboarding, and muddled through the same ice-breakers we’ve done while still in high school or college.

Your organization and team deserve more than “Two Truths & A Lie” or asking adults to share their hobbies with strangers. Reach out to Consciously Exposed Consulting to discuss how your organization can begin doing a better job intentionally developing meaningful relationships based on trust and mutual respect amongst its team members.

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