Great leadership appears simple and easy once conditions are good, the company is doing great business and everybody is happy. However, leadership is learned behavior that becomes unconscious and instinctive over time. As time goes by a leader’s true colors are revealed. Innovative leaders follow a step-by-step outline to achieve the stage of creativity.
Innovative leaders and successful entrepreneurs drive remarkable results and boisterous innovation during this dynamic economic system (market tremble). Innovative leaders make higher use of existing (unexploited) resources and talent for innovation, while not implementing disrupting amendment programs, by constructing the situations that permit vibrant novelty systems to emerge and flourish.
While observing some structure that might facilitate learning the method of becoming a successful front-runner, here is a summary of the processes that are key to become a persuasive innovative leader.
1. They establish and extend trust
Innovative leaders demonstrate a propensity to build and extend trust. Distinct leaders understand workplace trust that blooms and create excellence drives beyond the basics and extend trust profusely to those whom they trust. They establish trust to others by reading the situation, risk and integrity of the individuals involved in the organization.
2. They provoke minds
Catalytic leaders audaciously engage the uncomfortable, name the inflexible, address the impossible, and chase the insoluble. In this process, they lead people out of fear into faith, from nervousness to commitment, and from ambiguity toward a vision. And then they take them forward into a cultivated world of the spirit.
3. They explore for expertise in the team
According to a BCG study, great leaders possess exceptional qualities and practices that empower them to outperform their industry associates. Innovative leaders foster a mutual team capacity to anticipate and shape a destructive business environment.
4. They aspire to great knowledge
Great leaders aspire for greatness, for themselves, the team, the organization, and for each and every associate around them. They expect the best from everyone, and develop the required skills to become the Guru in the field.
5. They embrace risks
Risk-taking is an essential part of leadership. Great leaders build cultures that embrace risk, and they have the courage to begin instead of waiting for a better time frame, a safe situation, or confident results. They move forward and take risks because they know that being too careful and hesitant eliminates the opportunity to grow.
6. They collaborate to innovate
To build a culture of innovation, great leaders emphasize creating a culture of collaboration. Collaborative cultures engage and inspire the abilities of team members, value workers’ ideas, and welcome new visions into group decisions.
7. They set an example
Great leaders work hard and work smart, and more so with every passing day. Because of their love and passion to make things happen, they are always focused. They don’t give up easily. They bring 110% of themselves at work and set an example for all those around them.
8. They take actions and accept consequences
Innovation requires actions. Innovative leaders hold themselves accountable for their actions, calculate the influence and impact of their actions, and search for accidental consequences. If the results or effects are not producing the anticipated result, they involve themselves in that scenario and make required corrections.
9. They create a leadership signature
Just as we all have unique ways of signing our names, innovative leaders create their own unique signature as a leader that draws on their own strengths. Signature innovation is not easily copied or plagiarized, because it is originated from a distinctive cultural identity within a team.
10. They connect with a purpose
Purpose is the one thing all great leaders share. Effective leaders ensure a clearly distinct purpose, while ordinary leaders just come to work without any determination. Purpose fuels desire and work principles. These characteristics give a great leader a competitive benefit over those who don’t recognize the dynamics of this factor.
11. They develop awareness
Innovative leaders remain aware of everything important around them and their team, that could be organizationally, culturally, contextually and emotionally. They value engaging, observing, listening and learning over preaching.
12. They avoid complexity
Great leaders keep themselves ready to face and eradicate or simplify complexity. Complexity chokes innovation, brakes growth, gates progress and badly effects organization culture. But innovative leaders recognize opportunity and profits are removed from the complexity through interpretation, not by tallying the complexity.
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