Innovativeleadership

The good intention of becoming a leader is to inspire and innovate, to improve and advance.

Leadership is about the future, change, innovation. So the vision and intention of becoming a leader are to facilitate and encourage, as change is often an uncomfortable, yet necessary part of reaching success. Leadership is an influence. Leadership practice is, at its heart, a problem-solving process.

Leadership is more future oriented, when necessary, break down the old rules, and establish digital principles and landscapes: Leadership is about vision and direction. Being a leader means giving people confidence on where to go (vision) and how to get there, supporting them and also stretching them to unleash their full potential, Contemporary leadership must be built on the foundation of the moral competencies –insight, justice, courage, and temperance, etc, in order to build strong influential competency.

With “VUCA” reality, business leaders can't predict the future with a certain degree of accuracy, it’s important to define more than one way to achieve the business goals from the long term perspectives. Indeed, all strategies are made for growth. Strategic leaders can focus on the holistic big picture, without getting distracted by trivial details; integral people, departments, and organizations strategy together, establish digital principles, diagnose the most critical issues that need to be solved, encourage people to take smart actions and solve problems smoothly.

Innovative leadership is an ability to be able to not only ask insightful questions but also understand the context: The style of innovative leadership is to be inspirational and inquisitive. Innovation leadership is anchored on the leader’s multifaceted resourcefulness and differentiated competency. Innovative leaders ask insightful questions to attract diverse perspectives, understand the context of problems, adopt the attitudes and styles of strategic leadership, being confident to create and manage transformative changes, improve leadership effectiveness and maturity.

Leadership is situational, there is the time you need to lead ahead and facilitate answers, there’s the time you might need to lead from behind. Leadership is an influential power. How to influence is also dependent on the active coping mechanisms that they use to survive and thrive in a given set of living conditions. With overloading information and a shortened knowledge lifecycle, command and control leadership is out of steam, innovative leaders are in strong demand to advance human society, break down conventional wisdom, unlearn and relearn, and figure out alternative ways to solve problems via collective insight.

Leadership is about developing people, not managing them: Senior leaders have a personal and moral obligation to develop more leadership talent, identify the right minds and personalities, and provide leadership training to those folks. put the right talent in the right position to solve the right problems effectively. Character enhances competency development and competency comes from sharpening professional strength, while competent leaders also reveal character, courage, present the ideas with confidence, pursue the meaningful goal with persistence, and practice the leadership discipline with openness.

There is a huge difference between a “performance evaluation” and a “developmental opportunity.” To make a great talent development plan, the first need would be to identify the gaps: Where exactly the individual is lacking? What are the skills or attributes that need to be developed? Does an individual's capability align well with a business's strategic need? Self-driven leaders and professionals are able to continuously move out of their comfort zone complemented by the cycle of self-development, do things that matter, demonstrate autonomy and innovativeness.

The good intention of becoming a leader is to inspire and innovate, to improve and advance. Envisioning, guiding, acting, exemplifying are all the logical steps in building leadership competency to create new value, position a brand, align people inside an organization or differentiate and position products or services in a diverse market, to reach the next level of organizational maturity.

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