Is your Leadership Contract up to Date?

We tend to focus on objectives and measurable contracts, but we fail on the emotional and the unspoken ones.

The first time I felt this was at a theater play based on the book "The Immoral Soul", written by Nilton Bonder. On that occasion, the actor said, "marriage is a contract signed on your wedding with the implicit expectation it will last forever with no review or amendment."

This obviously signals the potential for frustration and divorce.

Ever felt that?

Now think about your role as a leader and the non-tangible or emotional contract it represents: pressure for results, sleepless nights, travel, other people's expectations and everything that comes with it. Did you sign "The Leadership Contract" with yourself? If so, do you review and amend it from time to time?

Or are you with "hope" that this fugacious moment of promotion, when you were standing at the altar, will last forever in sorrow and joy?

If you and/or your organization wants to have a strong leadership culture with true leadership accountability, it starts with "The Leadership Contract".

After all, leadership is a decision, an obligation, hard work and a community. Individuals who sign up for it need to make it (the decision), step up (the obligation), get tough (the hard work) and connect (the community).

Does this make you stop for a second? Does your Leadership Contract lack an amendment?

Do you want to know more?

Join us at one of our events with best-selling author and thought leader Vince Molinaro in October 2016 in Zurich and Geneva, and learn more about how LHH promotes leadership accountability throughout organizations from first line managers to C-Suite.