All entries for Wednesday 16 January 2019
January 16, 2019
Never Judge Employee's Performance
It is interesting to observe that I am doing a leadership module and I am blogging about various aspects such as strategy and employee motivation. This is exactly what leadership is. It is everywhere. It is essential for wide range of activities within business and everyday life. I will be building upon the yesterday's thought about setting people's expectations. To bring all the people together it is necessary to bring a shared goal and shared vision on the table. It is important to note that all the menmers of the team need to buy-in on the vision and the goal . It has to come from within. A leader has to be aware enough to give their team a sense of purpose. This is where revolutionary leadership comes into picture. showing the people a graeter vision and having them establish a shared goal. I can feel passion bubbling out from the word revolutionary. A leader should never expect the same amount from passion from the other members. Just accept and take whatever they have to offer on a daily basis. Respect what they want to do. Maybe that is how they can work the best. The true sense of leadership will be realized when a leader creates an environment which instills high amount of motivation within the team. Also, if the situation gets critical and leader realizes that the team needs to put in more effort , that calls for action from the leader. Ask for help from group members. According to experience of my classmates, leader is always given help if they ask for it. Overall, Reflect and Take Action ; and create right learning environment.
Having talked about expectations, how do we measure the performance of the employees. How to give them promotions? Judging the performance of the employees is a bad way to motivate them. It includes, giving ranks, declaring the best and the worst employees and firing on the basis of that. Never link performance with pay. The employees will never feel motivated if someone is getting a higher pay sitting on the same table. So how to proceed forward. The concept of developmental performance appraisal was somehow catchy for me. We don't rank and employee and give them marks. Here our vision is to push them to keep on improving. There can be feedbacks on the same level creating a learning environment for the employee. But now let me consider the exploited workforce. How to help them improve continuously? Maybe creating skiil development centres for them within the organisation can help in their career development. Why to provide skills to just my employees? It can also be available for all the unskilled labour in the region. This learning and development on the mass scale will increase the employibility of the workforce. This sets the basis for the revolution. This is something what revolutionary leaders could do. It takes some difficult decisions to start a revolution. If this thing is done by a particular organisation, won't all the people would be willing to work there? giving them skills means empowering them. Such a decision has the potential to set the revolutionary vision for the industry. It just has to start with one organisation, and I believe it will spread like fire.
Important thing is to convert this vision into action. The organisational vision can be implemented through HOSHIN KANRI, which I wish to explore further. But, there are certain things that are possible if the leader is ready to amke tough decisions. How can these tough decisions be implemented/taken? A leader's values will guide these tough decisions , because something that is tough for the ordinary, is a necessary thing to do for a leader. The values will guide you home. These values will motivate the revolutionary leader to take the right decisions and define the right things. Look at history, most of the revolutions happen when strong values are applied into action by leaders. Hoping for happiness of each living being!
Saurabh Kukreja
16 Jan 2019 22:59
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LEADERSHIP IN REFLECTION
Everyday forces you to learn something new. There were a couple of learning points at the end of the day. But how do I know the actions that are required to build on the learnings? It comes from reflection. Taking the feedback from your group members is really important in order to know how to adjust the leadership style. In a multi-cultural group, there might be different expectations from different people. As a leader, expect all to have different in opinions. All the members might not have a same style of working or might not be on the same page as you. It is very necessary to then reflect on your actions and try to improve them. This is not the first time in my life that I have received a very conflicting view on the way I should lead a team. My way is to expect the same amount of seriousness and commitment from the team members. But sometimes due to different personalities and cultures my team expects different things from me. Maybe they want their own space or they do not want to be convinced on what are my opinions. So what do I do as a leader? The first step I have established right now is to reflect. Reflect on your actions. Reflect on the impact that your actions are having on the group. Reflect on what are the necessary things to be done in order to achieve the goal. There might be instances where certain actions are necessary, and application of those actions might not make you a likeable personality. But the questions that a leader really needs to ask themselves while reflecting are that, Do I really want to be liked? Or do I really want to be respected? How do I manage the expectations of my group?
The point to consider here is that, when you as a leader have different expectations from what your group thinks, you as a leader have a different definition of "Right thing to do" in your dictionary. It might not be something very right in someone else's dictionary. Reflection will help to identify the necessary actions to be taken. If a leader can take feedback from the team, then they will be able to act better and develop the correct definition of "Doing the right thing".
To summarize, here is something that I have learned which can be applied differently in my leadership experiences -" The feedback mechanism is necessary to see your direction as a leader. The reflection will help you to keep on updating and improving your actions which will lead to a better end result." I am looking forward to explore more on managing people expectations and defining the right thing while leading, because I recognize that I cannot expect the same level of motivation from everyone because it is something that lies under individual's jurisdiction.
Saurabh Kukreja
16 Jan 2019 01:22
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