Place two leaders with exactly the same training, skills and abilities side-by-side and one will outperform the other. Why? The difference is confidence and attitude. The more successful leader has the confidence to get things done. Having a good-to-great attitude also helps when you are interacting with others.
Being a person in a high position of authority and having the power to influence, you are the one who is able to maximize the performance capacity of your employees as to the work they do.
How leaders treat employees directly impact the level of service the company provides its customers. This in-turn inspires employees to do better, in most situations than their usual ordinary interactions with clients and customers.
Many leaders rarely focus on the effect their leadership has on the success of their business. Studies show that leaders who consistently outperform their competition have certain qualities: They eliminate barriers to the development of new business avenues and better ways to perform; provide feedback; inspire confidence; share information with managers, supervisors and even low-level employees; and proactively encourage the development of new ideas. Leadership can make as much as 130 percent improvement in the performance of your business, according to Laurie Bassi, co-founder of McBassi & Company and former professor of economics at Georgetown University.
The impact of an extraordinary leader helps you to be enthusiastic, open-minded and willing to take risks. These give you the motivation to be a leader, as well as to move your employees in the same direction you are.Having a Plan of Action
As a leader, your impact goes beyond what most people think or expect. It impacts:
Employee Productivity– Extraordinary leaders are simply able to get more from their employees. And when employees work harder, organizations achieve greater success.
Inspiring Leadership: Study how to use emotion effectively to achieve great results.
Be Consistently Persistent: Knowing your specific goals and not reaching them just might be a matter of looking at what’s working and what’s working well. When
Inspired action means that you take action on purpose in the direction of your vision. When you take inspired action you have determination, you believe in what you are doing, and it is in perfect alignment with what you want.
Too often, organizations settle for ordinary results from leaders who do the bare minimum, when they can reach higher. Organizations who have great leaders get what they want most—great results.
Leadership effectiveness is directly correlated with employee productivity, from innovation to output. In other words, a poor leader can take even the best employee and turn them into an average contributor. Conversely, an extraordinary leader can make an average employee into a great one. Either way, leaders have a tremendous impact on all facets of the organization.
If you are not getting the results you would like, look at what you may be missing and address those gaps and begin to close them for extraordinary results both in your organization and in yourself. It takes a little hard work at first, but the results payoff big when you stretch your goals beyond your expectations and reach them.
