Your job as the leader of your team is to effectively communicate your vision for the organization and to initiate and finalize standard operating procedures. With these two pieces in place, your team will know the direction you want the organization to go and they'll know how to react without you being there.
New and veteran leaders are left to find and travel the road from subject matter expert to executive alone. And, even when we do support them, we often doom our efforts to failure by overloading development programs with training on interpersonal skills and leadership styles (an approach which wrongly assumes these leaders already know how to differentiate their work from the team's).
In this book, Leader can leverage Leadership SOPs to:
√Differentiate leadership routines from techical work
√Engage strengths more consistently
√Replace or de-emphasize unwanted behaviors
√Define and routinely express new behaviors
√Increase personal proficiency and feel through repetition
√Foster predictability, trust and collaboration
√Establish a platform for a lifetime of continous improvement
√Drive a more international leadership brand
√Simplify mentoring efforts with more concrete conversations
It is a must-read, delivering tangible guidance to new leaders grappling with their responsibilities, veteran executives searching for scalability and sophistication, and mentors trying to simplify coaching conversations.
