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Post 1. What does leadership effectiveness mean to you?

I think leadership effectiveness means different things in different situations, but above all it means taking the necessary actions to help those you are leading succeed. I really relate to the idea that positive results will come from serving others. I think I first heard this verbalized as “serving others” in regards to sales and that if your intentions are to serve and help others, good things will happen. I’ve been taught that one of the most successful sales strategies is to focus on providing value and the sales will come. I always kind of thought of this in the sales world as value = sales, but the more I learn about leadership and just about life in general, this idea seems to make sense everywhere. You can give value to your employees as a leader by continuously having baseline and feedback conversations like Berson and Stieglitz suggest (along with providing them other things), and in return because of those conversations and the growth opportunities they can provide for your employees, you’ll most likely see results.

I also think it’s important to recognize that what “effective results” mean to the organization and the individual people you are leading could mean different things. For example, the organization could have a specific goal of X results for one employee, and they may hit that goal of X, but if that employee is unhappy and/or unfulfilled, they might not stay with the organization. I’ve been through this experience as the employee. I was delivering the results I was asked to achieve, but it was a toxic work environment and because of that I left. By definition, the fear that my managers were instilling in me was causing me to produce the results, but after I left, who knows if they were able to continue to get the same results from who replaced me.

Berson, A. S., & Stieglitz, R. G. (2013). Leadership conversations: Challenging high-potential managers to become great leaders. Jossey-Bass.

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Post 2. What does leadership effectiveness mean to you?

Leadership effectiveness is the measure of a persons ability to lead a group of people around you to not only succeed within the companies goals for tracking but for the individuals to succeed personally as well. A leader should be able to develop and push all of his employees to be their best possible selves within the company and within themselves. A leader has to be able to lead by example as well as maintain a strong focus on the future of the company and employees while guiding the managers and those around them to work within the present. Overall a positive sense of leadership effectiveness to myself personally is someone who can show employees how to accomplish what needs to be done now, while also being able to visualize, maintain, grow, and execute plans for the future