Is Your Leadership on Auto-Pay
I recently came to a conclusion that Auto-Pay does not make my leadership easier. I have found myself in situations where Auto-Pay was not working and then receive a notice of PAST DUE.
Which begs the question is my leadership PAST DUE? Please bear with me as with Leadership always parallels to human stories and there are far too many stories where individuals pass-away but their accounts stay in auto-pay for months.
Two Questions: would your team navigate the plan with clarity if you went on Auto? Would your team even know you are on auto?
There is a definitive fine line between leading with involved clarity and letting your team do what they do best vs. being completely absent (the third is micro-leading).
With all negative or positive situations I sit back and ask myself a few questions:
- What did I learn?
- How can I apply for future success?
- What or how should I move forward?
- Small course adjustments.
- Is this still a correct course toward the goal?
- Is the main thing still the main thing?
If you Google the benefits of auto-pay all sorts of benefits come up from saving time, security, easy, cost-savings, convenient, etc. . . . Leading an organization or team we tend to apply auto-pay to our day. When hiring individuals the expectation of what is required of them is in their job description. However, how often do we communicate with clarity the objective, planned goals, and the benefits of their role?
Here are a few ways to take your leadership off of auto-pay and into engagement where true success lies toward your organizations planned goal:
- Clarity
- Gives design to your purpose.
- Gives direction to your team.
- Creates innovation in developing strategies and systems to keep within the lane of the desired outcome.
- Goals are measured progress; create a plan with clarity and everything will build toward your success.
- Integrate a plan as goals are the measured components to success.
“Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.” ~ Michael Gerber
- Message
- Communicate to your team frequently; remember it takes around seven times before a message is received.
- Communicate the message in several ways; verbally, written, and in practice.
- Model
- Daily if not weekly model the behavior and follow the system of clarity set into place.
- Your team must see you in action and not AUTO; action lends to modeling the behavior to success.
“Knowing the future is difficult; controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.” ~ John C. Maxwell
Leadership on auto-pay leads to destruction and rarely leads to the desired outcome. Leadership is intentional by checking in daily/weekly and engaging in conversation with your team to sustain the clarity and momentum to your planned success!
Look UP and OUT!
Tracy Worley