Monday, May 21, 2012

Appreciation of a shared technique

The quality of a charismatic manager is to pass on kudos received from his superiors to his associates, colleagues and juniors.  A manager, who possesses this trait and nurtures it, is the leader in true sense. A leader gives more and takes less. He maintains this quality throughout his professional career. As a mentor, he guides his team, and ensures their victory and share the joyous ceremony with deference for other’s achievement. He minimizes recognition of his share in the success, but exaggerates the spirit of victory by admiring the contribution of others.

What do these leaders do when any of their juniors or colleagues commits a mistake? How they become nonchalant on the eve of success.  Let us examine these issues.

Environment with mistakes:

If you commit a mistake in your work, your boss will yell, use derogatory words, demoralize you and straightway blame you for the mistakes.  This is a natural scenario.  Most of the self proclaimed leaders duck their heads very conveniently and pass on the buck of blame to others. These leaders grow to the top sacrificing the altruistic approach, and accuse others for any mistakes. This is a law of nature to skirt the shame of failures and separate themselves from the team members so that they remain untouched from the blame of committing mistakes.

But, a true leader, as stated above, is a captain of a team, and it is he only, who has to take the total responsibility of failure.  It could be anything; for example, non-completion of a project in time, inability to grab the order or any other mishap that may lead to unproductive output.

As a leader, one has to inculcate the habit to shoulder the responsibility for the mistakes committed by his junior colleagues.  He, as a captain of the team or as an in-charge of the department, should have enough guts to accept the blame of failures. An example of leading the team from front is to be set forward. But, a leader, at the same time, must not allow generation of lenient environment within the organization.  Once, he shows the soft approach towards the mistakes committed by his teammates and shoulders the responsibility of failures, the persons involved will go on committing the same errors repetitively, and would probably go rebellious. Under these circumstances, a leadership becomes less effective.  In that case, a leader has to eradicate all possibilities of committing mistakes from the system gradually by studying the root causes of the same. He also has to counsel his juniors so that the mistakes do not occur frequently.  He has to explain the gravity of the particular situation aroused by the mistake to his squad members.

Joyous phase for happy outcome:

The team should be a center for the leader around in which all his attention is centered. It should be above all your ownself and aspirations. You have to seldom think of your individuality and always work to develop the team spirit amongst the members.  Do not take credit for any success, but pass on the same and share all the kudos with your team members. Praise your team members freely and publicly for all their sincerity and contribution they have put in.  You have to develop an environment of admiring your team members for their accomplishments.  When you will continuously apply the principle in all your endeavours, the team members will be charged and will be always eager to extend more and more cooperation to you for better performance and achievement.  In this way, the rate of success will be doubled, tripled and sometimes may be 5 to 6 times as compared to expected level. You will be bewitched and more you express your gratification for them, indirectly you will get back more than your desired share of credit. Your tremendous effort to being everybody on the common platform and arouse a feeling in them about their success with the proverbial of “15 minutes of fame phase immediately after the achievement”, the entire laurels will come back to you only.  So, as a manager, take the blame on you for any mistakes and automatically you will find the loyalty factor for you is reached to a sky rocketed level.  With every instance of your passing on kudos to them for any good work, level of respect for you will be enhanced to beyond your imagination.  Your team members will be always charged to give extra output because of your this altruistic behavior and your extra ordinary supportive role.  With the resultant appreciation, trust and accountability, you will have no difficulty whatsoever to get the work done by your team members.  They will go out of way to ensure the success of your mission.  

So, if you praise unbiased and wholeheartedly, there is always a chance of getting replenishment of the same countless and boundless and that is the real achievement for you as a true leader.

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