Any successful business needs a Great Leader and Great team. Having only a Great team without the right direction, counseling, and mentoring result in passionate work but toward wrong directions. This results in more friction, stress, and anxiety. For a Great Leader, if he doesn’t have a good execution team, everything remains in the presentation or on paper. The strategy looks good and promising but there are no results due to poor execution by team. Success expects a tightly coupled model between Strategy and Execution, between Leader and Team with agility, flexibility, and collaboration.
What we should expect from a Leader
- High Emotional Intelligence
- Enable and growth of team members
- Decentralized & collaborative decision making
- Professional, Disciplined & ethical behavior
- Start change from self
- Continuous learner
What we should expect from the Team
- Inverse Structure – to have a customer-centric approach and feedback mechanism
- T Shape Skills – a breadth of skills in multiple functions and deep expertise in the core function
- Aligned Vision and Goals – team vision and goals need to be associated with Organization Vision and Goals
- Peer to Peer Collaboration – thinking together and collaborative working model
- System thinking – team members should have analytical thinking, bring solutions along with Problem
- Explore, Experiment and Pursue Ideas – keep exploring, experiment without fear of failure to pursues ideas and solutions
- Gemba Walk – Team should have ground-level clarity and first-hand experience with situations and customer experience
- No guilt and mercy of failures – Team should not feel guilty with failed experiments and move further constructively
- Facts and Data – ensure to collect facts and data so as to make strategic decisions
Framework for Success
- Objectives and Goal – What is the destination
- Alignment of objectives with activities, KRA – Why one should do the activities and how it is related to Organizational goals and objectives
- Execution of strategy and activities – How to execute the activities, communication protocols
- Time, Frequency and Consistency – When the activities should be done and executed
- Team, KRA, KPI – Who should do what and what not with required benchmark guidelines