Unveiling Your Leadership Intention
Ready to become an intentional leader? Take your leadership skills to the next level and learn how to create meaningful change with Andrea and Michelle. Join us in discovering the power of your own leadership intention. Discover the key elements of intentional leadership, build meaningful relationships, and make a leadership promise that will help you achieve success like never before!
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What Is Your Leadership Intention?
Have you ever wondered how your role impacts your organization? Do you have a leadership intention? What are you doing to achieve that intent? Today on The Leadership Hustle Podcast, Andrea Fredrickson and Michelle Hill explore how to become an international leader for more effective results.
Intentional leadership is all about purposefully and consciously guiding your team with clear goals, values, and strategies that align with the organization's vision.
If you don't have a clear intention, you walk without direction. To start walking on the right path, you must first define your leadership promise.
Your Leadership Promise
This will be the manifesto of your commitment to the organization. By setting these three commitments, you can create a compelling leadership promise and direct your efforts toward your team and company to success.
Commitment to Your Company's Vision
Your leadership promise should encompass your dedication to the company's vision, strategy, and overarching future goals. As a future-oriented leader, you must first outline how you plan to contribute to the organization's long-term success and how to achieve it.
Commitment to Your Environment
Next, consider the commitments you want to make regarding your work environment. This may include ensuring employee happiness, fostering diversity and inclusion, or promoting a healthy work-life balance.
By outlining these commitments, you demonstrate your dedication to creating a supportive and productive work atmosphere, which in the long run, makes for a more effective workplace.
Commitment to the Ones You Lead
To complete your leadership promise, determine how you will treat and interact with those you lead.
Reflect on your communication style, decision-making approach, and conflict-resolution strategies. By defining your expectations for collaboration and teamwork, you set the stage for solid relationships and trust.
Communicate Your Leadership Promise
Once you have established your leadership commitments and promises, write them down and share them with your team.
Openly discussing your goals and intentions helps to create a shared understanding of what you aim to achieve and how you plan to support your organization in reaching these objectives.
Encourage feedback and dialogue, allowing your team members to express their thoughts and concerns about their role in your leadership promise.
Difference Between a Leader and a Manager
The words leader and manager are often used as interchangeable terms in an organization, which can complicate the creation of a leadership promise.
Understanding the distinction between a leader and a manager is crucial for effectively guiding a team and fostering a successful organization. While both roles are essential, they involve different responsibilities and approaches.
Manager: A manager is primarily responsible for overseeing resources, budgets, teams, and day-to-day operations. Their role typically involves planning and directing tasks to ensure the smooth functioning of the organization. Managers focus on meeting goals and objectives and maintaining the team's overall efficiency.
Leader: A leader, on the other hand, focuses on aspects that help people make better decisions, set the organizational culture, and provide coaching and mentorship for members to obtain the tools needed to complete their tasks successfully.
Leaders inspire and guide their team members to reach their full potential while creating a vision and strategy for the organization's future success.
It's essential to establish your role as a leader before creating any promises.
Are You Staying Intentional?
As you advance within an organization and take on increased responsibilities, it's possible for your leadership intent to become overshadowed by new tasks and obligations.
Maintaining a sharp focus on your leadership goals is essential to guarantee organizational success.
You can determine if you are genuinely being intentional or got lost doing manager tasks by asking yourself the following questions:
How intentional am I in my role? Reflect on whether your actions align with your leadership intentions and commitments.
Are you consistently working towards your vision and goals or focusing solely on managing tasks and resources?
Am I empowering and developing my team? Ask for feedback and check the recent growth of your teams. Are they making any progress?
Do I prioritize strategic thinking and proactive problem-solving? Am I just working in automatic?
You can effectively steer your team through periods of growth and transformation by consistently prioritizing your leadership objectives and tackling your tasks with purpose.
Remember that the feedback from your team serves as a valuable measure of your leadership effectiveness. Use their insights as an opportunity for growth and improvement.
Your leadership intention and promises are a commitment to your team and a reminder of the impact you can create when you lead with purpose and dedication.
About the Hosts
Andrea Fredrickson
Andrea Fredrickson is a thought leader and consultant at Revela, an organization based in Omaha, Nebraska specializing in the development of leaders, culture alignment, and business strategy for private and family businesses of all sizes. Revela is one of the region's most experienced thought challengers, helping individuals and companies find their greatness. Andrea has built an amazing team by believing that fundamentally people want to be successful and become better versions of themselves.
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Andrea has degrees in education, management, and business. She is the author of Insight Unseen; How to lead with 20/20 business vision. She helps people see things differently, self-reflect, and never stop looking for ways to improve themselves on a personal and professional level. Andrea has spent more than 30 years researching and developing methods to help people communicate and lead more effectively.
When Andrea isn’t working with clients, you’ll find her spending time with her family & friends and making memories by exploring new cities.
Michelle Hill
Michelle Hill is a master facilitator and coach at Revela, an organization specializing in the development of leaders and aligning the culture of privately held and family businesses of all sizes. Revela is one of the region's most experienced thought challengers, helping individuals and companies find their greatness.
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An ambitious leader, Michelle has the natural ability to create forward momentum to build teams and get results. She inspires others to look within themselves and to challenge the status quo. She helps create high-performing environments. Michelle brings a diverse background: operations, employee development, and sales in the steel, hospitality, and consulting industries.
Outside of work, you will see her competitive side engaged in her daughter’s sports and ISU athletics. She loves life, her four-legged companions, and captures all the moments through her camera’s lens.
TRANSCRIPT
Andrea Frederickson: What is your leadership intention on this episode of The Leadership Puzzle? We'll walk you through creating your leadership promise. Hello and welcome to the Leadership Puzzle. For executives whose companies are growing fast and need leaders who are ready. Welcome to this episode of The Leadership Hustle, where we work with executives whose companies are growing fast and need leaders who are ready. I'm your host, Andrea Fredrickson, and I am here with my co-host, Michelle Hill. Hello. How are you doing?