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Are Your Leaders Living Illustrations?

5/1/2015

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Vision trumps all of our other senses.  Research indicates that about 75% of our learning happens through our vision.  According to Discovery Magazine, “In the brain itself, neurons devoted to visual processing number in the hundreds of millions and take up about 30% of the cortex, as compared to just 3% for hearing.”  

So it’s logical that employees want to “see” their leaders doing the right things.  The old adages – ‘actions speak louder than words’ and ‘walk the talk’ are all too often expressed by many frustrated and disengaged employees about their leaders today.

So here’s the bottom line question – are your leaders living illustrations?  Do employees learn the desired behaviors of your organization from watching their leaders?  Here are eight critical factors where seeing can truly create believing.
  • Accountability.  Do they (employees) see leaders taking ownership of issues & problems and not blaming someone else?  
  • Change.  Do they see leaders as active players making the required change or just spectators who watch and critique?
  • Communication.  Do they see leaders effectively asking questions, listening, generating understanding and not just talking, telling, and tuning-out?
  • Handling differences of opinion.  Do they see leaders finding common ground or only staking out their personal claims?   
  • Priorities.  Do they see leaders respectfully saying no or not now, versus just adding more to the list of things to do?
  • Respect.  Do they see leaders giving it, in order to get it or just feeling entitled to it?
  • Sacrifice.  Do they see leaders going first, when sacrifices need to be made, or routinely being treated as an exception?  
  • Work/Life Harmony.  Do they see leaders disconnecting from work and not staying electronically connected 24/7?

When employees at work don’t know what to do, what to think, or what to say – do leaders provide a living illustration?  In high performance organizations leaders do – because we remember images and we forget words!  

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James link
10/10/2023 09:29:19 pm

Appreciate tthis blog post

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