3 Facts Related to Leadership
Fact 1: Leaders get stressed, team members get stressed
Quoted from greenwoodleadershipacademy a leader often works under pressure, both from his superiors, from fellow leaders and from his team members. This often makes a leader stressed and his team members stress too. The work atmosphere becomes uncomfortable, „hot“ and going to the office becomes a daily torment that gets harder and harder every day.
Working only abort obligations and wait for payday. While on the other hand, his life is full of emotional turmoil, and his heart is constantly upset. Stress is a daily dish without knowing when it can be ended.
Fact 2: Success Story, It’s No Longer Working.
„Hooray, last year I succeeded in becoming the best.“ It was the words of a leader at the beginning of the year. He is also committed to using the proven strategies, tactics and methods in the following year. Apparently, the results are different. in the first quarter, he was already beaten by the other team. Success stories only become history, they can no longer contribute to achievement.
The VUCA Era: Volatility Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity requires things that are new, fast, creative and innovative. Past experience is only appropriate in its era, can no longer be relied upon in the present. Anyone who is not flexible will lose the competition.
Fact 3: Slow Leaders are Even Afraid to Make Decisions
A person is called a leader if he has influence and is used to making decisions. Unfortunately, many leaders rarely make decisions and are even afraid when they have to decide. The words that were spoken „we will hold a meeting later, waiting for directions, there are no instructions yet, just stay safe, don’t take risks“ and the like.
In the end, the team members doubted their leadership and even gave the label “puppet leader, has no guts, has a position but doesn’t have the courage”
What do you do if you experience one, two or even all three at the same time?
You don’t have to do much. You simply optimize the function and role of the brain because it turns out that the brain is a factory that produces so many attitudes and behaviors.
Unfortunately, we haven’t optimized the roles and functions of our brains to improve our leadership performance
In his book Neuroscience for Organizational Change: An Evidence-based Practical Guide to Managing Change (Hillary Scarlet, Kogan 2016) it is explained how changes occur very quickly in this era, but most of us are still in a brain position that has not changed. Our brains are not designed for 21st century organizational life. Our brain thinks that we are still in the past.
We use the brain only as a tool to survive. Whereas to be a leader when leading change, we must be able to master how to develop influence and facilitate change, bringing the team ready to face change.
LEADER behavior is a product of the interconnections and interdependencies of the brain systems themselves. Damage or malfunction of the parts of the brain that are specifically associated with certain behaviors will damage that behavior as well. Therefore, behavioral improvement cannot be separated from constructive interventions in the human brain. This includes increasing the capacity of a leader. By training and developing the capacity of the brain, we can jump-start the leadership we have.