Your leadership success hinges upon your ability to get your people to perform well.
Shifting where you invest your time and energy will take some getting used to. Engage your team members and give them the type of leadership they need as individuals. Every employee is different, but unfortunately many leaders use a one-size-fits-all approach to leading.
In doing so, these otherwise well-intentioned leaders are working harder than they should while not getting the best they could out of their teams.
In LEAD INSIDE THE BOX: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, authors Victor Prince and Mike Figliuolo examine how investing "leadership capital" in the proper amounts in the right places, will increase performance and productivity while decreasing stress levels.
Make smarter decisions about how and where to invest your time and energy to get the results out of everyone by understanding each team member's behavior patterns. Leading each team member, based on his or her "meaning making" will enable their leader to improve the team's performance dramatically while expending much less effort.
Source: Victor Prince: Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results