Saturday, September 6, 2008

How can leaders motivate and develop highly effective individuals and teams?

People are the biggest assets that any company can have and leaders play the pivotal role in influencing the way individual or team work, behave and develop.

Independent of the culture and geographies people are sensitive and emotional. People react to positive and negative stimuli. Leaders need to acknowledge this as one of the key factor for success and hence good thinking needs to be done in terms of managing the emotions of the people.

Tolerance to failure, enabling and empowering people to take decisions and risks needs to be supported if innovation needs to thrive. Leaders need to device and institutionalize proper rewards and recognition to encourage people towards delivering their best.

The ability of the leader to sense the ground realities in terms of challenges that the individual or the teams are facing internally and externally (competition) needs to be recognized and supported on priority.