There are some managers who need to have the same revelation as Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas morning. What would your ghosts of leadership past, present and future say about your company culture and the need for a change in leadership approach?

Ghost of Leadership Past

As you drift off to sleep, you are visited by the ghost of leadership past. He takes you to your formative years – bosses who made a positive impact on you and those who should have known better. You can see those people who made the most significant impact on you – words of encouragement at times you doubted yourself, challenges you overcame and felt satisfaction from, mistakes your learned from.

Ghost of Leadership Present

The second ghost pays you a visit and shows you how you are impacting the people you lead today. She also reveals how other leaders are treating people in your organization. You overhear the conversation these employees are having with their families, friends and coworkers. You hear them talking about how they feel underappreciated in their jobs, are getting bored because their manager is not challenging them to grow and even some resentment for doing the job of their less effective co-workers who their boss would rather accommodate than confront.

Ghost of Leadership Future

The third and final ghost pays a visit and whisks you off to reveal the future for your organization if it stays on its current leadership path. The future shows that your company is having trouble attracting and retaining talented employees. Some divisions are unable to continue as they cannot attract the kind of employees they need to deliver products and services to customers. You see that some of your best employees have moved on to companies who have created a more proactive, positive and high performance culture, leaving companies like yours scrambling for the leftovers and hard to manage employees. Your visit to the future culminates with you in your managers office being told that your services are no longer needed, your career terminated.

Your Leadership Christmas Morning Revelation

You awaken on Christmas morning with a renewed sense of urgency, enthusiasm and awareness of the need to become the kind of leader who people want to work for and want to give their best. Your euphoria prompts you to replace your aggressive and avoidance leadership behaviors with more constructive ones. You begin to share your expectations, vision and goals with your team. You provide training to help your team perform and you provide feedback, both positive and corrective. You encourage others to do their best and show that you believe in them and their capability. You provide challenging assignments and grow the capability and flexibility of your team.

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