Her Magazine

February/March 2013

Her Magazine is New Zealand’s only women’s business lifestyle magazine! Her Magazine highlights the achievements of successful and rising New Zealand businesswomen. Her Magazine encourages a healthy work/life balance.

Issue link: https://viewer.e-digitaleditions.com/i/108312

Contents of this Issue

Navigation

Page 51 of 161

LEADERS ARE PEOPLE DEVELOPERS This is an important point because when you truly put the customer at the centre of the company's value creation in all you do and how you think, this ensures a multitude of wonderful things will happen; • it galvanizes the team to work for the greatest possible customer experience not just sales • empowers and encourages all employees to have a voice in innovation and to serve the community • it makes employees think of themselves as potential customers and bring real and workable ideas to the table • focuses the team development around delivery of value creation, not just task completion – a quantum leap in employee thinking and one that must be taken by all LEADERS ARE TASK ALLOCATORS they need to develop the skill of orchestrating complex ecosystems. This also means leaders need to be cross-disciplinary in background and need a good handle on diverse areas like HR, IT and Communication, especially social media and in my industry new retail technologies. We can delegate but never abdicate. LEADERS ARE MOTIVATION STIMULATORS By focusing on value creation and by motivating. Today's leaders are based on strengths, not titles. Teams need the three C's collaboration, content and choice and the big R of recognition to ignite their creative potential. Leadership is a state of mind that embraces all of these points...it's about Vision, Spirit, Intention and Character, getting diverse individuals to work together as a team and inspiring the best leadership from within. One of the most overlooked resources at your disposal are entrepreneurs and leaders from within. A leader can be anyone on the team who has a particular talent. This recognition of insider knowledge and leadership has become mainstream promoted by the creation of the company campus type environments of Google and Facebook. Anyone and everyone can contribute who can creatively think out of the box, has a great idea or experience in a certain aspect of the business or project that can prove useful to the manager and the team. So as leaders, how should we lead, inspire and develop? Great leaders choose their leadership style like a fashionista chooses a pair of high heels to accompany an outfit for an occasion: with a calculated analysis of the matter at hand, the end goal and the best tool for the job. Research says a manager's leadership style is responsible for 30% of the company's bottom-line! www.h e rmagaz in e .co.n z | 47

Articles in this issue

Links on this page

Archives of this issue

view archives of Her Magazine - February/March 2013