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A-B-C Framework on Leadership.
When you want people to stick with you through the hard times and trust you to get them to the other side, you need to know who you are so you can let others know you.
I used many tools over the years to examine my leadership style and values, always keeping a piece of paper that I edited and amended for more than 25 years on who I am as a leader. When someone requested a more structured way to think about this, I developed this A-B-C framework. If you would like an examine your own leadership style, you can use this tool to ask yourself:
What are my ALWAYS goals?
Who and how do I pledge to BE as a leader?
What is my CODE of conduct?
I believe all leaders need to be able to explain what they value, how they will act as a leader, and have up to three tenets that will hold true for employees regardless of circumstances. This tool offers a simple framework to refine, clarify, and simplify your leadership style and values.
Each of us thinks a little differently, learns a little differently, and processes a little differently. At some point, you are going to cross paths with an employee or a manager who thinks, learns, and processes in the exact opposite that you do. Both of you will wonder why they just don't get it. The manager tries to explain something again. The employee tries asking questions again. By the third time this happens, our brains tell us there’s a pattern here, and we start expecting to talk past each other and looking for signs that we have. That doesn’t mean you give up. It means you find a different way. If you are ready to have this kind of conversation, please download my tip sheet on what to do when you are Talking Past an Employee.
Just genuinely holding this conversation may provide most of the reset you need -- it puts you both on the path of listening to each other again. And, perhaps you both develop an inner voice that says, “Let me try this a different way.”