Have you ever thought about how much your team observes you on a daily basis? Not out of mistrust - but because your behavior as a manager has a direct impact on motivation, performance and satisfaction. In the latest video in our leadership series, you will find out which specific behaviors really characterize successful leaders - and how you can integrate them into your day-to-day leadership.
To give you a better feel for the video, this text gives you some information from the video.
The exciting thing: The findings do not come from individual experiences, but from an evaluation of over 900,000 employees worldwide. And the results of their study even surprised the researchers (Source).
A key result is the so-called Leader–Member Exchange construct from psychology. Studies show: The quality of the relationship between you and your employees has perhaps the greatest influence on whether you as a manager are able to really increase the performance of your employees. Sounds simple, but – is enormously effective.
Another example is provided by Google: they analyzed internally what their best managers do differently. The result was 8 key factors that became the basis of a leadership checklist - a kind of guide that you can use like a daily line manager checklist or "boss checklist".
Only about 5 % of Google's managers effectively implemented all eight checklist items. Google then developed a training program based on their results, which led to an improvement of 13 % – even one year later (!) –.
The People Manager Checklist - Download PDF here
Would you like to know which of these behaviors you are already applying – and where you can still grow in a targeted manner? In our Leadership Checklist, you will find practical questions from various proven leadership styles, e.g. from transformational, ethical or servant leadership theory. These will help you to reflect more objectively on your daily behavior – is also ideal as a basis for a people manager checklist, as a kind of template. Incidentally, it is helpful regardless of whether you are new to leadership or already experienced.
You can download the list of leadership qualities as a PDF here. It is a helpful guide to topics that you should regularly consider in your one-to-one conversations with your employees.
This is precisely where – excellent leadership is demonstrated in daily practice. With the examples of leadership behavior, a list of leadership behaviors or specific questions to assess your leadership skills in employee management, you can immediately improve your impact as a leader.
Start the video: All information about the checklist
Of course, there is much more to discover in the video: Which behaviors specifically promote trust, how empowerment succeeds in everyday life, and why technical competence is helpful but not decisive?
Find out all this in the new video below – including the complete checklist of leadership competencies and many more insights.
Watch the video here. Have fun discovering – and growing as a leader.
