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Greetings,

Welcome to the latest edition of The Source, if this is your first issue, then welcome!  We appreciate the opportunity to share best practices in leadership, management, personal and professional growth, recruiting, retention, and other areas critical to your success.  Thanks for reading and feel free to share with others. 
 
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Kent Cable
Cable & Franklin Executive Search, LLC
Formal Leadership 
 

This is part three of a five part series on Formal Leadership. Each concept works alone however; fits nicely with the other articles. Please contact us if you miss an article.

The Leader As Mentor

While many aspects of the mentoring role are similar to coaching, the significant difference lies in the mentor's advisory or teaching role. A mentor is a trusted advisor and tutor. Mentors share the benefit of their experience and knowledge. It is a critical role in developing individuals who will collectively be responsible for the success of the organization. As a mentor you should:

  •   Seek innovation,The Source
  •   Encourage experimentation,
  •   Reward appropriate risk taking,
  •   Drive out fear,
  •   Develop trust and full cooperation, and
  •   Create an environment where everyone communicates freely, honestly, and positively.

Establish an environment that encourages and rewards people to develop their skills, improve their results, and learn new skills. Actively seek to help people learn from your experience and knowledge. Develop a culture where people feel responsible for their own results and are supportive of others.

Provide the model, knowledge, training, and freedom to achieve their goals. This environment reduces the "blame everyone else" attitude and encourages a responsible, entrepreneurial mentality.

The goals should be to get everyone to want to own the responsibility for their own performance. The mentor helps people make improvements that are necessary to achieving the organization's goals. Today's leader must foster a culture where continuous learning, continuous improvement, and new and better ways of doing things are the norm, not the exception. People should look for opportunities to apply their ideas and be proactive rather than reactive, and to do it quickly.

Our next newsletter will discuss the Leader As Director. (part four)

Adapted from Leadership Development, Resource Associates Corporation. All rights reserved worldwide. This material shall not be copied by any means without the express written consent of Resource Associates Corporation. 740-824-4842.

 

How productive are your business meetings?  Would you describe the culture that governs your meetings to more resemble World War III or crazy chaos?  During a meeting, do you focus on the agenda at hand or do you concentrate more on breaking a foam cup into bits?  Would you qualify eating all of the donuts in a meeting as a major accomplishment in your agenda?  If these meeting scenarios sound familiar to you, you are not alone!  Many studies have shown that more time is wasted in meetings than in any other business activity.  It is estimated that people spend 20-40% (upper management is much more) of their time in meetings and that meetings are only 44-50% efficient (source: Steve Kaye).  By improving the efficiency of your next meeting, you may increase your bottom line. 

The first step in improving the efficiency of your business meetings is to recognize that meetings are a collaborative effort.  The very definition of a meeting is a TEAM activity where SELECT people gather to perform WORK that requires GROUP effort.  All participants of a meeting, therefore, must play a role in remaining focused and progressing through the meeting in a timely manner.

Before calling a meeting, it must first be decided whether it is necessary.  Remember a meeting is not always the most effective way. Other options available might be sending a memo or an email.

It is the responsibility of the meeting solicitor to determine the need for calling the meeting and who should attend.  In general, it is best to invite as few participants as possible (key players only).  The solicitor must also review the organization's calendar, reserve the meeting room and assign a meeting facilitator to be in charge of the agenda.

Effective meetings necessitate leadership.  Leading a meeting requires attention, confidence, creativity, diplomacy, empathy, flexibility, wits, toughness and yes, humor!  The primary role of the leader is to establish the ground roles for the meeting which are namely:  to minimize confusion and disruptions and to institute a code of conduct.  Some examples of team game rules that are designed to make meetings more effective are:

In addition to implementing these concepts, an effective meeting leader must enforce a code of conduct in order to maintain a safe environment for discussing ideas.  The meeting facilitator should compel the meeting attendees to follow some simple guidelines to ensure an orderly meeting:

It is as equally important to end a meeting efficiently as it is to conduct it. Besides just ending a business meeting on time there should be a review of agenda items and results, as well as assignments. A set agenda for the next meeting should also be prepared.

Having an effective business meeting is a key ingredient to having a successful business. If you would like more information on this subject, please feel free to contact us.

By Jennifer C. Zamecki CPBA, CPVA, CAIA, TriMetrix. Well-Run Concepts.