Four Elements of Leadership- Openness
"Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent."- Bertrand Russell
The areas
of congruence and acceptance are improved by openness. As I have already mentioned you have to be
open to your team's ideas in order for them to offer them. They have to feel that they can trust you and
that you will be willing to accept them if they are valuable.
But
openness does not always mean acceptance of a truly naff idea. If you can build on it then maybe it is
worthwhile. But sometimes saying that
an idea is not the best choice and providing logic as to why can be seen as
being open. But it can not be your
normal mode of operation. Being a killer
of ideas is ok once in a while but when done too often it can lead to the team
not offering them in the future.
Add you
can see these for areas of teluability, congruence, acceptance, and openness
go together to improve your leadership potential. You have to ask yourself each day whether
you nudged the ball forward with your team in each of these areas. forward The gain in each one could be small
but your overall leadership could be undergoing a step change in improvement.
Today's
question is:
"How
open are you to your team's ideas?"
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