As a senior leader in my corporate career it was my job to inspire my team to meet the business goals.
So how do you inspire?
Take the analagy of sport and marathon running. In the picture that accompanies this blog are 3 colleagues and great friends of mine, all of us at one time while employed in same organisation have been responsible for leading and inspiring large teams to performance.
Several times a week we would lace up our running shoes and squeeze in a 5 mile run at lunchtime.
During these runs we inspired each other to meet our running goals. Our confidence and self belief increased as we got faster and supported each other on days when someone was off the pace on a particular day.
Showing and displaying the belief we had for each other inspired our commitment to our running goals regardless if it was a marathon or an ultra marathon we were aware of all our individual goals.
We took responsibility for our running commitment and would be out in all weather sometimes the wetter the better.
We inspired commitment, self belief and capability in each other along with responsibility for the training plan we were on to meet our individual goals.
We gave each other guidance on healthy eating for running distance and celebrated success and laughed when at times we over carb loaded or drank too much water.
It’s fair to say we built an understanding and a trust and listened to everyone’s views as we ran which helped us build our own learning curve.
We learned to understand issues or injuries if you like and we learned techniques to avoid injury so our running plans were not affected. As a result every person in that photo became a marathon runner.
All in all as a group of leaders and colleagues and most of all friends I have shown how through running we have demonstrated the true competencies of leadership.
Achieving excellent results
Influencing
Inspiring
Communicating
Building trust and understanding
Developing capability
Collaborating for success.
Finding solutions.
Bringing all those qualities into our corporate leadership roles helped each and everyone of us to build successful teams and deliver performance with the respect of our teams.
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Believe an you can too.
