How do you lead and manage?
This is written for leaders and managers who are passionately committed to improving their abilities. It introduces a process to help you on your journey.
The book takes you through a fun and beneficial process to write your own ‘How I Lead and Manage’ document. A special web page¹ (no fee), along with this book, guides you, at your own pace, in a simple, step-by-step process. The output is your own treatise² of leadership.
Your organization’s performance will improve. Your relationships and interactions will be more effective. New levels of respect and trust will be gained. You’ll establish a more defined leading and managing system allowing your organization to thrive.
It’s not about learning new things. You already know significantly more about leading and managing than you apply. This process helps you organize what you already know so you apply your knowledge more effectively.
Your treatise² becomes the solid foundation you add upon to continue clarifying and refining how you lead and manage. Your new understandings and insights about yourself and leadership will improve your life.
This will inspire those around you to join in the same journey. Collaborating with others helps everyone. Enjoy!
1. www.Zynity.com go to the link How You Lead to get started when you’re ready.
2. Treatise; a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.
Everyone has a personal way to lead and manage.
Expressing it in a clear and simple manner is necessary for others to buy into it, fully engage, contribute within it, and help continue refining and improving it.
If you and your leading & managing team want to improve, creating your documents should be a part of your plan and process.
We look forward to helping you and your organization be all you want to be!
The purpose of this book is to help you use the template below to build your own How You Lead and Manage document. Printed version at Amazon
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to define and document How You Lead and Manage:
Instructions Expected Results
Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.
─Marcus Tullius Cicero
You will be infinitely more successful if you contribute to the success of others.
─Ann Marie Houghtailing
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
─Peter Drucker
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
─Harold S. Geneen
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
─Henry David Thoreau
A business is simply an idea to make other individuals’ lives better.
─Richard Branson
If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour.
─Douglas W. Hubbard
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
─Jim Rohn
Instructions for use:
Step 1: Leaders should place their ideas in each of these sections and seek the advice and input of others to help refine the document.
Step 2: Leaders should have others on their managing team provide inputs to their document and also complete a document of their own.
Step 3: Leaders should meet with the others to review and edit their respective documents from time to time.
Step 4: Leaders may meet with other team member separately to get their insights about how to improve this document and their performance.
Step 5: Leaders should commit to implement the Framework for Leading™ concepts and the Zynity™ Online Tools. Continue editing the How You Lead and Manage document and agree with others to track and then celebrate individual and team progress.
Individual and group exchanges will indicate there are opportunities for increased understanding and more effective communicating.
Key: Ongoing editing and improvement is key to immediate and long term success.
Expected Results:
Working to make the How You Lead and Manage document better over time is a good way to demonstrate your commitment to your personal development and organization's performance. Your Key Performance Metrics (KPMs) will get better if you improve the environment within which they are created. Improving the environment entails improving the foundation upon which the environment is built. A key strength of the foundation is the quality of its organized leading and managing framework.
When an organization uses the Zynity Leadership™ online tools and concepts, the ratings for each of these questions will increase quarter over quarter. The goal is to get the ratings nearer 10 for all respondents in the company. This will indicate that a Top-Level leading and managing framework is in place and having a significant impact. Organizations that ‘Do’ this will have a decided advantage.
Do it together. Get you and your team ‘working together better’ as you build your own How You Lead and Manage documents along with the framework. It can all be done in only one hour or less each week. You’ll notice many worthwhile changes within a short time. All will be motivated by the ongoing improvements to continue evolving. In a few months you’ll be a whole new team. The outcomes will quickly justify the process and complaints will be few.