Leaders, How to drive results from your work?

“Execution is everything.” –John Doerr

“You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.” – Bill Parcells

We might have a perfect plan, great team members, but when we do not get the desire result, the leader has failed, and the team has failed.

So as a leader what are the skills we choose to polish which will assure that we drive for the result.

All the leaders who want to drive result they all have a common skill which they refined well. They consistently employ these skills to drive the result.

What are those skills which support leaders to drive result?

“Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.” – Denis Waitley

Effective leaders inspire team members to embrace the company’s mission and work hard to contribute to team success. 

Set stretch Goal: All leaders who drive for the result, formulate a stretch goal for all the team members and influence all the team members to accomplish the same. 

"One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you." - Jeff Bezos 

Accountable: People should be accountable for their own work. If they are not serious, then work will not be done. A leader has to ensure team members understand accountability and impact on the end result. Leaders coach the team members if they meet any challenges with accountability.

Committed: Team members should be committed to their result, Leaders should look for the opportunity to help their team members to increase their commitment. Committed team members always keep their promise.

End in mind: Leaders begin each day, task, or estimate with an explicit vision of your desired objective and target, and then proceed by flexing your proactive muscles to make things happen. Leaders who drive for results always visualize the result, they search for all the opportunity to achieve the end goal whatever may be the challenges. 

Cadence and follow up: All the leaders who drive for the end result, they establish regular cadence with the stakeholders, seek for issues or bottlenecks and work to mitigate those.

Resilience: While executing there will be many challenges but leaders desire to demonstrate a bounce back mindset. Leaders should be able to rapidly come back to a natural situation. The leader who is high resilience is aware of situations, their own emotional reactions and the behavior of those around them. In order to manage feelings, it is fundamental to understand what is causing them and why. By remaining aware, resilient leaders can keep regulation of a situation and realize of fresh ways to tackle problems.

“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.” – James Allen

Curious and open mindset: All these leaders are Curious and ask compelling questions to discover what is progressing on at the ground level. They encourage the team members to accomplish the result by collaborating with them.

Communicate and stakeholder management: Leaders who drive the result, constantly communicate their expectations clearly and clarify if there is any ambiguity in the message. 

Motivate: These leaders realize the need of their people. These leaders connect and engage with their people so that these team members extend beyond their defined boundaries to accomplish the goal.

Taking care of the individuals: These leaders take care closely about their employees. Their well-being everything whatever it is require to achieve that. Leaders recognize the strength and weaknesses of all the team members and work based on that. 

Vulnerable: Leaders are vulnerable to all the team members in a process leaders establish a trusting relationship with other team members. Leaders accept they mistake and confirm that they do not know everything. With the team members they learn together.

“Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.” – Robin Sharma

When we have all these setups and ensure every progress as expected the result will come.