Leaders set the right example for everyone

Leaders have the unique opportunity to improve team performance every day by always modeling the right way. Employees search for a leader to learn from within their organization and closely watch their behaviors at all times. It’s important to understand that setting the right example is a leader always action. People look to leaders when they are facilitating a meeting and even if they’re not. To sustain organizational results and achieve higher results, leaders build relationships with team members through formal and informal conversations.

Leaders that have regular conversations with their employees are more likely to engage their employees and improve organizational performance. Gallup research finds, “Employees whose managers hold regular meetings with them are almost three times as likely to be engaged as employees whose managers do not hold regular meetings with them.” To have these conversations successfully, leaders need to be highly aware of their own behaviors and consider, ‘What is the intended outcome?’ from the communication.