Creative Leadership - The Key To Effective Leadership
Dr Uday Salunkhe says: Creative leadership is all about taking risks, making mistakes, giving oneself the space to learn from them and getting back in the arena at a higher and more intelligent level. It is therefore important to reflect frequently on some of the issues leading to these mistakes and ways to overcome them to emerge high on the leadership curve.
Mistakes 1. Lack of Feedback: According to 1,400 executives polled by
The Ken Blanchard Companies, failing to provide feedback is the most common mistake that leaders make. When the leaders don't provide prompt feedback to their teams, they are depriving them of the opportunity to improve their performance.
Dr. Uday Salunkhe’s advice to overcome this issue:
Weekly meeting - A weekly meeting with the department or direct reports is a great method of providing guidance and exchanging information between team members.
Daily rounds - Another effective tactic communication is to “make daily rounds” by of the departments for five to ten minutes to of the activities and provide on-the-spot needed.
to increase visiting each keep abreast guidance as
2. Inability or unwillingness to effectively delegate: Some
leaders don’t delegate work, this can cause huge problems as work gets piled up and they become stressed and eventually burnt out.
Dr. Uday Salunkhe’s advice to overcome this issue:
Empowering the team- By delegating work, one will empower team members so that they can either take away and/or share the pressure. He/she will allow them a few mistakes along the way as long as they learn from them.
Shift the emphasis- Leaders cannot afford to do the same activities they performed as team members; they must shift their emphasis and concentrate on leadership activities.
3. Failure to develop subordinates: Mentoring and training
subordinates is a time consuming but essential role of a leader. Providing regular coaching and guidance is vital, but all forms of professional development are important in developing employees.
Dr. Uday Salunkhe’s advice to overcome this issue: Make resources available – A leader should provide required resources to allow its employees to participate in formal and informal training. Leaders should be measured not only on their own accomplishments, but also on the progress of each member of their team in professional development efforts.
Set standards- Leaders should set standards by mandating a certain number of continuing education hours or events that must be accomplished.
A creative leader is:  A forward looking person who looks out for potential challenges & opportunities and can see invisible things that others miss. He/she accepts personal responsibility of the group. He/she gives credit to the team for success but accepts blame for failures.
 He or she makes peoples development a priority and wastes no opportunity to improve the skills of the group. He or she constantly evaluates the skill sets of team members and provides them with specific and corrective feedback.
 A creative leader establishes a clear vision, sets goals with his/her team, engages in highly collaborative behaviour and encourage the team to be more innovative. Collaboration, Co-creation and Network Thinking is always high on the list of priorities.
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