Dear Reader,
I saw this 7 minutes video by Simon Sinek. It is
about why it is important to include trust as a key factor while deciding
promotions or bonuses. He shares how Navy Seals, who are one of the best
performing teams under most difficult situations, choose their team members. In
the corporate world, we often choose and reward team members based on only their
results rather than their trustworthiness.
While it is easy to measure business
performance, it is unusual and difficult to measure impact of leaders on
others.
I have recently interviewed many senior
leaders for my upcoming book – Hi Conflict! Bye Conflict! A common theme that
emerged was that a good leader is one who people trust, who is authentic, has
people’s back and grows others. (S)he has an empowering impact and creates an
environment for everyone else to succeed. Such a leader puts team goal ahead of
self goal.
5 years back at Rejoiss, we coined a term
for such a leader: Priceless Contributor (PC). We recognised that that while
focusing on self is essential, it is insufficient recipe for sustained success.
Your true success comes when others start rooting for your success. That
happens naturally as an outcome of PC practice since you genuinely root for others
in their endeavours.
I recall my career at ICICI from campus. No
one gave me any clue that only pursuing excellence is no more enough, you need
to focus on your team winning over odds, help others to be champions. I got a
very low rating once and my bosses could not explain me that the problem was my
self-serving attitude.
At Rejoiss, we put together our life’s learnings
to find an authentic measure of attitude and enable attitude transformation in
leaders. This resulted in creating the Rejoiss Leadership Index. This measures
the impact of each team member on others. It can be done in as little as an
hour and yet is profound, authentic and relevant. When you club the results
with leaders’ business performance, you get exactly the chart Simon Sinek talks
about. Rejoiss Leadership Index is a method to bring objectivity into a
subjective, yet critical leadership trait.
It has been quite a journey using this
index for our clients. The way the exercise is designed, you simply can’t poke
hole in the results. This exercise helps leaders recognise their blind spots. This
new awareness works silently and many begin to change their attitude. What has
been common is that for every team we did this exercise, the sponsors have
confirmed that with few surprises, the results reflect the reality very
accurately. It has helped them take some critical decisions. To know more about
Rejoiss Leaders Index for your teams, reply to me or write to my team at connect@rejoiss.com.
May this mail give you some clues to
recognize your most effective leaders and build a great team.
