Assessment comes before change. To see growth and get improved results, take an honest assessment of your leadership skills: Would you follow you? Why?

Take this challenge:

1) Identify the attitudes and characteristics the organization values.

2) Assess yourself and your leadership team against the characteristics identified in #1.

3) Answer the question: Is the staff following or obeying our leadership?

4) Prioritize the areas of weakness identified in the previous steps.

5) Select the most important characteristic that will have the greatest impact on the growth of the organization.

6) Create an action plan for developing that skill set in the management team.

Depending on the organization and its current leadership, this may not be an exercise that
can be done internally. When habits are entrenched they are hard to see. Whether you
conduct the assessment internally or bring in an objective third party, do not begin this
exercise if you are not totally and 100% committed to it. One of the biggest
mistakes organizations make is to begin down the road of self-improvement but when it
becomes hard or sensitive, they discontinue the journey and what began with promise ends
as an exercise in futility. Each time this happens, trust is eroded and a “can’t do” attitude
grows within the organization.

Know that you can develop leadership throughout your organization but the first step is to recognize the need to do so. John Maxwell’s “Law of the Lid” indicates that an organization can only grow as high as the leaders. If you aren’t growing as you should it may be your leadership. Take the necessary steps to develop the current leadership team (and your aspiring one) and the result may well be the growth that has been eluding you.

Karen Hosey,President and CEO of Z.O.E. Consulting, LLC. has over 20 years experience in strategic planning, sales and leadership development. She currently assists businesses and ministries in achieving their vision through customized processes in strategic planning, and leadership, sales/customer service development. As a business coach, she guides leaders (and those aspiring to be) to fulfill their potential. She is an energetic, motivational conference and seminar speaker who uses her experiences to entertain and educate on a variety of topics that relate to business, management and self-improvement.

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