The first and most important item of leadership is not business vision, understanding of people and employment, and decision-making, but self-management. We should be clear that for a person who is not a leader, his work is clear, his scope is limited, and his changes are predictable.
But for leaders, the direction of work needs to be chosen, the goal is more difficult to determine, the scope of work is infinite, the factors affecting the results of work are not clear, and the changes such as unknown risks are unpredictable. Then, among many uncertain factors, leaders should not only assess the situation, but also make decisions, distinguish right from wrong and keep pace with the times, because leaders have no choice but to be the anchor of the team forever.
Therefore, only by self-management can leaders avoid making mistakes, going astray, using the wrong people, choosing the wrong direction and so on. There are several specific ways for leaders to manage themselves well: pay attention to managing their time, energy and attention; Review your thoughts and decisions regularly, and constantly revise and improve yourself; Pay attention to your usual personality, temper, habits, and points that are easy to get angry and get out of control; Force yourself to keep pace with the times and gradually improve through learning, self-cultivation and authorized management; Establish your own personal staff team, find a group of experts in various fields to become friends, learn from each other and support each other.
A leader who can't manage himself well can't manage the team well. In the eyes of competitors or subordinates with ulterior motives, the weakness of leaders lies in their interests, which needs to be recognized and vigilant as leaders! On the one hand, we must understand that as a leader, we will waste resources and manpower in the direction of exploration; On the one hand, we should also be wary that a wrong behavior of the leader (such as a speech by Ma Yun) may lead to a series of disasters. Therefore, as a leader, self-management and walking on thin ice at all times are basic qualities.
Second, talent management: including knowing people, employing people, educating people, establishing a talent echelon, and maintaining the ability to survive the fittest.
The second item of leadership is talent management, which is simply to cultivate and use people, including:
Knowing people: knowing people is the guardian door. If you don't know people clearly, you will lead a wolf into the room and harm others and yourself. For example, people who are born "anti-bone" must not use it. For example, we should look at the essence through performance and the ability through temper and personality, not just by feeling and vision.
Employing people: The key to employing people lies in knowing people's responsibilities and roots, and seeing through people's hearts and destiny from human nature.
Cultivate people: A good leader is a person who can cherish the people in front of him and let those who follow him grow up step by step every year.
Establish a talent echelon: it is necessary to recognize, employ and train people, and to retain people, both to retain people and to retain people's hearts.
Maintain the survival of the fittest: people brought out by hand may deteriorate, and even the best old employees may become a scourge. The team should be able to survive the fittest, discard the old and welcome the new, and keep the echelon healthy. Talent management is almost the shortcoming of most leaders. The more leaders who climb up by their own efforts, the less experience they have been trained, and the more they have no way or even lack awareness of cultivating people.
Painting cakes, playing routines, giving opportunities, playing games, newcomers in the workplace, especially after 90 s and 2000 s, are increasingly out of touch. At present, talent management is the focus of leadership. The bigger the leader, the more energy he spends in this respect. At the boss level, it takes many years to find a qualified successor for yourself. Ren He of Huawei and Ma Yunhe of Ali are typical cases.
Third, people's heart management: including the ability to know people, guide people, inspire people, lead people, unite people, unite people and so on.
The third item of leadership ability is people's heart management, which is the core ability of leadership:
Knowing people: a scholar dies as a confidant, and whether subordinates are willing to work for leaders, besides income, growth and other factors, the biggest influencing factor is whether leaders understand subordinates; Leaders can understand their subordinates before they know what they really want.
Introduction: Subordinates will encounter problems in their work, as well as problems. The ability of leadership is not to help subordinates solve problems, but to guide subordinates to find answers and open their hearts.
Motivator: The working state of subordinates will fluctuate, and the overall state of the team will also have peaks and valleys. In case of failure, leaders should have the ability to motivate people to work hard.
Leaders, Unite People, Unite People: When necessary, leaders should take the lead, wave flags and shout, and unite the team as a whole, because leaders are the backbone of the team.
From the perspective of people's heart management, many leaders will hurt people's hearts more or less and ignore them in their daily lives. For example, stingy praise to subordinates, ignoring their efforts, even breaking their promises to reward subordinates, and euphemistically losing their temper to subordinates are actually the bane of team alienation!
Please leaders recognize a truth: all substantial interests are empty, and people's hearts are real; Only those who are incompetent in managing people's hearts will seek psychological dependence by occupying interests; The so-called "wealth scattered people gather, wealth gathered people scattered", that is the truth!
Fourth, rule management: including the ability to establish rules, implement rules, maintain rules, modify rules, and evolve rules.
The fourth item of leadership is the foundation of people's heart management, or the underlying logic:
Establishment rules: such as the partnership rules at the beginning of starting a business, including payment rules, capital contribution rules, distribution rules, management rules, entry and exit rules, etc.
Execution rules: rules, regulations, processes, norms and standards established for teams with rules as the underlying logic.
Maintain the rules: When someone challenges, breaks or even tramples on the rules, you should have the determination and means to maintain the rules.
Modify the rules: when you encounter unreasonable rules and rules that become bottlenecks, you should have the courage to modify and break the rules yourself.
Evolutionary rules: Dare to break the tradition, break yourself, establish new rules, and risk the collapse out of control.
As the saying goes, there is no Fiona Fang without rules. A team should have a team rule. This rule should not only have clear rules and regulations, processes and standards, but also have experiences and traditions summed up, precipitated and polished in practical work, and everyone adheres to the rules.
Making good use of the former can create rules, regulations and process standards suitable for the team; Making good use of the latter can create a "hidden rule" and make the team run faster, manage more efficiently and cost less. Confused leaders often confuse the two, put themselves above the rules and become the biggest destroyer of the rules. Smart leaders can often clearly control the two, make good use of the latter, make management invisible, form their own unique management style and become the art of management!
5. Results management: including business vision, planning, decision-making, division of labor, getting results and other abilities.
The fifth item of leadership is results management, which is the most successful one:
Vision: Leadership is the eye of the team. We should find the way forward in an environment where everyone can't see the direction clearly.
Planning: Have an idea, a plan and an implementable plan. Many leaders give specific plans to their subordinates, which is understandable in order to train their subordinates, but leaders themselves must have this ability.
Decision-making: In the face of opportunities, risks and losses, it is necessary to stop losses, and the decision-making ability of leaders will affect the whole body.
Division of labor, implementation and supervision: including daily work and project management, the specific ability of leaders should be able to penetrate into the work.
Get the result: the subordinate's execution takes the result, and the key point of leadership ability is to start from the end, reverse the work from the result, control the work in his own hands, and then fully authorize the subordinate to execute it. No matter how bad the subordinate does, he has the control right to save the situation and get the result. In reality, many leaders have strong leadership skills, but the results are always unsatisfactory. It's not a matter of time or fate.
The key lies in whether the leader himself has a good understanding of his own field, career and project, and whether this external vision can see the future results, so that everyone can believe in themselves and work together!
Leadership is integrated with the team. If there is a problem with the team, it will inevitably be reflected in the problems of the leaders. Only when the final result is obtained, so that everyone can get their own interests, can the results be fed back to the leaders and teams, so that the self-management, talent management, people's heart management and rule management of the leaders can be verified, the leadership ability can be tempered and the leadership can be qualitatively improved.