Successfully and sustainably growing your business, increasing revenue at a faster rate than increasing costs, is difficult. Organizational readiness is key and your managers are your secret weapon. However, in growth-stage companies many managers are new to leadership, they lack the deep experience in steering their team and the organization through new and challenging water.
At GrowPerform we provide analysis, coaching, tools, and frameworks to develop dynamic and inspirational leaders and managers who can generate increased productivity, creativity, and retention rates and ensure your employees are loud, proud ambassadors for your company.
As founders and leaders, you are the difference makers. By embracing the multiplier effect i.e. consistently modeling strong leadership competencies, you will amplify those qualities in the managers around you.
How to kick-start the multiplier effect in three simple steps:
1. Set and communicate clear goals and objectives:
Leaders need to understand the founder's vision, be able to communicate it successfully, and importantly, translate it into tangible actions e.g.
Providing strategic understanding, direction and guidance aka "the north star"
Motivating their own teams around a common purpose
Setting impactful, measurable, goals & KPIs
2. Establish and maintain trust:
Happy and high-performing teams are built on a strong foundation of trust. Here are some ways to develop trust quickly, especially applicable for remote or hybrid teams:
· Build meaningful relationships, meet regularly, remember the little things, act with authenticity and fairness, embrace servant leadership and be vulnerable
· Request feedback and accept it with gratitude.
· Agree on expectations and stick to them.
· Reject a blame culture, admit mistakes and learn together. Make some failure ok.
3. Lead the shift from a ‘me’ to ‘we’ mentality:
Many new managers earn success as individual contributors but producing results yourself is different from getting the best results from others. Andy Gove, the Founder and former CEO of Intel put forward the Task Relevant Maturity (TRM) framework which can be used as a guide on how to adapt managerial style depending on the needs of their team members, enabling managers to delegate, monitor, and manage performance more successfully.
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