Abstract: The author asserts that presentations and speeches are the means of communication less effective leadership. There is a much more effective: The Leadership Talk. In this three-part series, describes the fundamentals of the Leadership Talk and how it will contribute to the development and delivery.
Turbo charge your career with the most powerful leadership tool of all: The Leadership Talk. (Part Two)
by Brent Filson
In the first part, I described the talk of leadership and how leadership is a tool much more effective presentations or speeches.
I also described two fundamental premises that the Leadership Talk is based on.
The second part will show the purpose of the Leadership Talk. It will not be able to give effective leadership talk on a consistent basis if you misunderstand its purpose.
The Leadership Talk does not drive purpose. Guiding the Leadership Talk. There is one and only one purpose of the Leadership Talk: to motivate people to be your cause leaders in addressing the challenges you face.
This is important to understand the difference between Leadership Talks and presentations / speeches.
You are a leader. You have a task to complete. Want to bring people simply do the task? Or do you want those people to take the lead actually to complete the task? For the difference between doing and leading in terms of achievement is a stock car racer and Formula 1.
Clearly, you can order them to perform the task, and if you are in a position of authority, they will most likely make the order. But they could not do it with full commitment. Or they may resent being ordered. Or they may be inclined to do nothing unless ordered, and so after accomplishing the task, they do little besides wait for the next order.
However, their commitment to take leadership involves your establishing a special relationship with them.
For example, the example I used in the first part, if one is a floor sweeper is the best plan is broad, not simply doing it but by taking leadership of floor sweeping.
Such leadership might entail: taking the initiative to order and supply management, assessing the performance of work and increase the results to higher levels, having floor sweeping be an integral part of the general policy of cleaning the intake, training, development of other purposes instilling a "floor overwhelming esprit" that can be experienced in training, uniforms and special insignia, behavior, etc.; radical strategic plan and setting goals.
Otherwise, in a mode doing, just pushing a broom.
You can say, "Look, Brent, a job is a job is a job. Leadership This thing is not doing enough!"
Maybe. But my point is that leadership apply to a task changes the expectations of the task. Change also the same task. Think, when we ourselves are called to bear, and not simply do, our world is, in my view changed.
Also, if you can order people to do a job, you can not order anybody to take leadership of it. And 'their choice whether to or not.
This is where the Leadership Talk comes in use, set the environment in which to make this choice.
The Leadership Talk is not only the most important for leaders because it is the only way to get on a consistent basis.
In the final part of this three-part series, I'll show you how to develop and deliver a great Leadership Talks.
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