Do you know the difference between creative and reactive leadership? Many experts say that to be a good leader you need to be creative rather than reactive. With the environment rapidly changing, it is more important than ever to be able to understand how these changes will affect your business and to create a way to take full advantage of the changes happening around you.
Creative leaders
If you’re aiming to grow quickly within the business you work for or if you want to accelerate the progress of your own business you need to understand your leadership style.
Creative leaders are always asking themselves the following questions:
- What do potential customers really need, now?
- Does anything worry them?
- What causes them pain?
- Are my customers eager to buy?
- How can I make our current customers happier?
- How can we make the products we sell better?
If you ask yourself these questions regularly, be sure to test your creative skills by asking yourself are you:
- Internally driven.
- Focused on the work, not politics.
- Goal-oriented around, rather than crisis-centred.
- Good relationship builder.
Also, ask yourself, do you:
- Make full use of your strongest talents.
- Set aggressive long-term goals.
Reactive leaders
Reactive leaders have different characteristics, they tend to be:
- Motivated by external factors like money and power
- Focused on corporate politics, not the work
- Allow their time to be dictated by what’s in their inbox
- Sometimes ignore their strongest talents in favour of “good management”
- Plan in one- to five-year increments
- They believe nothing is sacred and relationships are expendable
The most successful leaders are of course long-term oriented, people-friendly, loyal and are eager to provide great products and services.
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