Most business managers and managers recognize that leadership skills are important, but what exactly makes a person competent to run a company? At Measurable Solutions, our consultants use over four decades of experience to educate the next generation of business leaders in the basic principles needed to effectively run their operations. As our name suggests, we provide applicable answers to help leaders achieve quantifiable results. Our services have helped many business owners and managers reach their full potential and enjoy astonishing success. Read on to learn four ways you can become a more effective leader so you can begin putting these concepts into practice today.
1. Understand your strengths and weaknesses.
The first step to becoming a better leader is taking stock of your current condition. One of our clients, J. M., commented that the services; “pushed me to think about the qualities a true leader has and where I am falling short. This was beneficial because I had to name areas to improve on and recognize where my strengths are.” To achieve measurable results, you need to know where you currently stand and then improve it (our clients have been known to grow their businesses 20X and beyond!). Our staff help clients take a look at their current successes, failures, and production to create a game plan for improvement.
2. Observe your team.
In his Forbes article on the subject of effective leadership, business strategy expert Glenn Llopis urges executives to “pause and pay attention to your employees…As a leader, you can’t prepare yourself to lead more effectively if you don’t know what is really happening with your employees, their state of mind, their required resources, and the support they need to experience success and fulfillment in their work. As a leader, you must broaden your observation of the things that are happening around you.” After completing training with our team, J. M. noted: “This course was showing me how to be a leader that has high standards for quality, but also for the people working for our clinic.” Whether you have three employees or three hundred, becoming an effective leader means watching them closely and looking for areas that need improvement.
3. Clearly define your goals.
It’s a deceptively simple question: what are the products of your business? Establishing what you offer to clients or customers and what you’re trying to achieve is a requisite to enjoying success. Caught up in managing the day-to-day affairs of a company, many executives forget to pay attention to their true products. Daniel Sage, owner of One to One PT, learned this important while working with us: “I realize that to be a great executive I need to clearly define what it is we are trying to achieve (name the product), get understanding and agreement, which will lead to staff wanting the product, and then most importantly teach the staff how to get the product.” By helping his team fully understand the goals of the business, Mr. Sage is poised to better lead his team and expand his practice.
4. Continue working for greater success.
What if your business is already doing fairly well? Effective leaders keep assessing their progress, observing their teams, and defining their products for continued expansion. C. E., another client, had this to say about the training: “Prior to attending the Exec Basics Course at Measurable Solutions, we were experiencing a lot of success in our practice…. [However], though we were extremely happy with how far we have come as a practice, we realized there were still some obstacles that were keeping us from achieving our ideal scene…we realized we were not where we wanted to be yet. Completing the Executive Basics Course fully opened our eyes as to EXACTLY what we needed to do to be fully functioning in our executive roles.” And, of course, C.E. and the team found measurable solutions—“since attending the course, we have hit several new ‘highest evers’, and our patient visits have shot up past 600 visits per week.”
