Focus On The Outcome

 Focus on the outcome. People judge you by your performance, so focus on the outcome. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. Advertise. If they don’t know it, they won’t buy your product.

 What is Results-Based Leadership?

Results-based leadership has relentless emphasis on results. It’s simple equation:

Effective leadership =  attributes × results.

“This equation suggests that leaders must strive for excellence in both terms: that is, they must both demonstrate attributes and achieve results. Each term of the equation multiplies each other; they are not cumulative.”¹

The Foundation of Leadership

By: Brian Tracy

The most important quality of leadership, the one quality for which you want to be known, is extraordinary performance, with the goal of achieving extraordinary results. These results then serve as an inspiration to others to perform at equally exceptional levels. People ascribe leadership to those men and women who they feel can most enable them to achieve important goals or objectives…

Why Results-Based Leadership?

 What is missing in most leadership-related writings and teachings, is the lack of attention to results. Most of them focus on organizational capabilities – such as adaptability, agility, mission-directed, or values-based – or on leadership competencies – such as vision, character, trust, and other exemplary attributes, competencies and capabilities. All well and good, but what is seriously missing is the connection between these critical capabilities and results. And this is what results-based leadership is all about: how organizational capabilities and leadership competencies lead to and are connected to desired results.

Benefits of Results-Based Leadership

By helping leaders at all levels get results, results-based leadership frees productivity from constraints of hierarchy and the limitations of position.

Results-based leaders define results by understanding audience and customer needs. They continually ask and answer the question – “What is wanted?” – before they decided how to meet these needs.

Employees willingly follow result-based leaders who know both who they are (their own leadership attributes) and where they are going (their targeted results). “Such leaders instill confidence and inspire trust in others because theу are direct, focused, and consistent.”¹

Results-based leadership makes performance measurement easier. “Without a results focus, calibration of leadership becomes extremely difficult. Measuring results helps organizations in many ways, from tracking leaders’ individual growth, to comparing leadership effectiveness in similar roles, to clarifying the leader selection process, to structuring leadership development programs, to using results as the standard filters who should enter an organization and how they should be trained.”

 This is what an effective teen would do to make his or her life a better one each day or when they are on the path to success. Having the end result in mind means having a particular goal you want to achieve in your life. But let me tell you this, that your goal must be able to be something that you LIKE to do. If not, why set it in the 1st place? In the next few posts I will share on what I have learnt to set my goals for a better future ahead. Get ready, because it must just help you be more confident in your future. Though in this post, I included some leadership skills, read it. You might never know that you might need it when running your own company or landing in a leadership role in future… 

 

article taken from http://www.1000advices.com/guru/leader_corporate_12_success_rules_sj.html on the 29th march 2008