Leadership: Lesson One
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LEADERSHIP: LESSON ONE focuses on the fundamentals of effective leadership by providing a simple and actionable framework that leaders can apply to any project or initiative. Thanks to its simplicity, it is universally applicable.
Just like in sports, it is crucial to master the fundamentals. These core elements may not appear difficult, but it requires training and even more training again to become a real champion.
For new leaders and those with less experience, it provides the foundation for effective leadership, to which one can always return, and to which more advanced layers can be added at later stages throughout the leadership journey.
And for senior or more experienced leaders, it is a useful guide that can help shape new initiatives and get things back on track when they go off the rails. And it will help you coach your team of less-experienced leaders so that they too can lead with confidence.
Morten Heedegaard
Morten Heedegaard has more than 25 years of experience working in several international companies across different industries, and 15 years of leadership experience in various positions. His experience includes leading commercial sales and marketing operations covering more than 15 European countries, several years on the management team of a multi-country consumer goods company, and extensive functional experience in marketing, sales, export management and customer partnering and development. Aiming to grow both customer satisfaction and company results, he has been leading and facilitating projects up to a European scale within the areas of sales, marketing, innovation, finance and supply chain, and he is appreciated for his ability to orchestrate projects and workshops that range from operational who-does-what-how workshops to multi-day management team sessions. He believes that continuous development of people, tools and processes is a prerequisite for an organization’s continuous success. And it all starts with leadership.
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Leadership - Morten Heedegaard
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Footprint of a Leader
Lesson One
What do you want to achieve?
Your What
The Team’s What
How will you do it?
Competencies
Resources
The What-How Ecosystem
Cascading Goals
Two Types of Leaders: What & How
Take a Look in the Mirror
And … action!
Appendix
Overview of the Four Components in the
What-How
Ecosystem
Example of a Completed Overview
Root Cause Maze
Acknowledgements
About the author
Preface
Here you are—sitting in a leadership position because someone has great confidence in you—your manager.
Promoting you into that leadership position—whether it is your first leadership position or a more senior position—comes with an obligation on the part of your manager to offer you the support you need to grow and become a successful leader. And, likewise, you have the same responsibility for your team.
Most leaders are appointed into their first leadership roles based on their technical expertise. And, in many cases, this happens suddenly, and implies a massive change for new leaders.
While Leadership: Lesson One is a useful guide for freshly minted leaders, it can also provide value to more seasoned leaders. When you get bogged down in complex projects, the simple framework in Leadership: Lesson One will help you get things back on track. And if you have just appointed new leaders to your team, it is a useful guide to help you coach them and increase their competencies so that they too can lead with confidence.
The objective of the framework is to help you produce results, as that is ultimately what matters. I am not a proponent of results at any expense, and the framework takes that into account by integrating the importance of developing people’s capabilities along the way.
In the game of tennis, you have to have the right grip on the pracket before you can go on to master the game. Much like tennis, leaders need to grasp some core concepts before they can master the subtle nuances of leadership. The core concepts are the foundation upon which they can add more complex layers. But the core remains the same, and they can return to it time and time again to set them on the right path.
Leaders are an essential part of any organization; they set direction, motivate others and shape results. Whether they are senior leaders in a large multinational, team leaders or junior project managers, they have all been new to leadership at some point, and they all need to grasp some core concepts in order to lead with confidence.
During my first appointment to a leadership role more than 15 years ago, I was feeling frustrated and had a lot of questions: What is leadership all about? Where is the instruction manual? How do I lead? And, how is my success as a leader measured? Overnight, I made the transition from being an expert in my field
to suddenly being thrust into a leadership role. I was no longer required to complete tasks and projects; instead, I had to lead others. This was a completely new game, and it shook my self-confidence.
Several years later, I came to realize that my continuous search for the right way to lead was a never-ending journey. So I redirected my energy into finding the simple, core components that could apply to any leadership