On your way to work, you come up with ten ideas on how to make your daily work routine more effective and efficient for you and your colleagues? Do you see mistakes not as a reason for criticism or self-doubt but rather as an opportunity to learn? Then you should take a look at lean leadership and what it can mean for you personally and professionally.
The human factor can catapult any company in any industry forward – if the teams are deployed correctly. This is by no means a matter of pure benefit for employees, but rather a show of genuine appreciation for them and the product.
Ideally, everyone pursues the goal of empowering themselves and others, and also shaping their journey to personal excellence. Excellent leadership ensures that everyone is able to carry out their work effectively, efficiently and with motivation. And this is where lean leadership comes in.
How does this work? By allowing executives to say goodbye to outdated leadership styles, reflecting on and adjusting hierarchy and authority in the company and extensively focusing on leadership and effective mindsets, skill sets and toolsets.
If you are not familiar with lean and agile leadership style in terms of lean leadership, you should first read up on the background of lean leadership in the blog article “5 reasons why lean leadership leads to success” and the professional opinions from lean expert Art Byrne in the interview Lean is a growth strategy. With this professional basis, you can develop your own knowledge about lean leadership.
5 characteristics of a lean leader
Those who intensively focus on lean leadership will grow from it, broaden their horizons professionally and personally and discover new abilities in themselves (and in others). Then, the desire to become a lean leader often develops quickly. The advantages are not limited to a professional setting. Lean leaders can cleverly use their new mindset, skill set and toolset also in their personal life in a positive manner that benefits them and others.
But what are the necessary conditions? Among other things, every lean leader should possess and continuously develop these five characteristics:
1. Commitment
2. Passion for learning – striving for excellence
3. Team players – empathy and emotional intelligence
4. Decision-making power – decisiveness and competence
5. Leadership by example – authenticity and high standards
Become active – let yourself be trained as a Lean Leader!
The basic characteristics of lean and agile leadership can then be ideally developed with the right impulses and under competent guidance. Because anyone who likes to learn, shape and move things forward is a lean leader.
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In our next blog article you can read how you can develop your fine-tuning as a lean leader and which seven influencing factors are important in this process.