Leadership Development – What is the Key to More Productivity?
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How would you like to be able to skyrocket your productivity and effectiveness as a leader? As a part of your own personal leadership development, one of the most important things which you can accomplish is the ability to get more results with little increase in effort and with no sacrifice in quality.
So how can you truly accomplish this and become more productive in your organization? If this is something which you are interested in incorporating into your leadership development then here is something which you ought to know:
In leadership development, you must have strong shoulders to stand on in order to set yourself above the crowd and look towards the horizon. This means that the people who are you are leading have to grow in their own leadership development so that you can grow.
There is no way around this, especially if you want to become more productive. There is only so much which one person can accomplish alone and failure to acknowledge this is the reason many people never rise above mediocrity in their leadership development.
In order to become a great and effective leader you must be able to master one of the crucial pillars of great leadership development: duplication. You may have heard it said that there is one thing which is more rare than talent and that is the ability to see talent in someone else.
However, even more rare than this is the ability to see and to cultivate that talent so that the person who you are leading becomes a great leader themselves.
This is the secret of duplication and it is the means by which you will build strong shoulders upon which to leverage your own personal leadership development and to explode the productivity of your organization.
The problem is that there are far too many leaders who are weakening the shoulders which they must stand on, and therefore they are never able to rise above the crowd as a leader. So how can you become someone who builds leaders for your organization?
First, you have to realize that a rising star is no threat to your position as the leader in your organization. Napoleon Hill said : “The leader who fears that they will lose their position to one of their followers is most certain to realize that fear sooner or later.”
Remember, you need strong shoulders to stand on so get excited about the possibility of having a great leader arise out of your team. This will ensure that you do not weaken the shoulders which you yourself must stand on.
Finally, learn to let go and hand tasks which you are either not good at or don’t like to the members of your team. Chances are that if you are not good at what you are doing that there is someone on your team who is better and would be delighted to have you believe in them enough to hand them that responsibility.
Delegation is the key to duplication and one of the core principles of great leadership development. Begin with these two principles and see how your productivity increases as a result.
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Delegation is one of the hardest things to accept for the up-and-coming leader. I resisted signing up with a VA firm for months because I couldn’t figure out what to delegate until I realized that 1 hour of delegating tasks might leverage to 8-10 hours of what for me would be busywork. If there’s one trait I’ve seen all good leaders share, it’s that they know how to offload anything that’s not one of their core competencies.
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