What might be common to good leadership, but is not commonly practised?
Incompetent Leadership is the main reason for low employee morale, poor work culture resulting in the underperformance of an organisation. It may even lead to collapse of the organisation. Defining incompetency in leadership is simple: “style of functioning that is has detrimental effects on subordinates, fellow employees, customers, other stakeholders or organisation”. There are scientifically valid assessments to predict and avoid leadership incompetence.
Sometime back I chanced upon a wonderful book on leadership titled UNCOMMON LEADERSHIP authored by two prominent management consultants & trainers, Phil Higson and Anthony Strugess. According to the authors there are compelling reasons to re-think leadership. Further, there is a clear need for effective leadership, yet there is also credible evidence of a shortage of skilled leaders.
They found in their experience of conducting workshops more than the abundantly available theories, it is the ideas and insights that spark fresh thinking and new perspectives that helps the managers and the leaders the most.
The above prompted the authors to ask a question on leadership “ What might be common to good leadership, but is not commonly practised?” The answers are in Uncommon Leadership. It is the leaders who must determine how they will respond to the challenges and shape their own approach to leadership. The authors state that Uncommon Leadership can help you to do this by:
- offering thought-provoking insights for a fresh perspective on leadership;
- developing the skills leaders need to succeed;
- encouraging leaders to think differently about the meaning of leadership.
To help bring all this together, Uncommon Leadership is structured around ‘5-S Leadership Framework’:
- Seeing: finding the sense before it becomes common.
- Shaping: making good sense into common sense.
- Showing: doing the common things uncommonly well.
- Serving: having the common touch.
- Sharing: making uncommon leadership more common.