Which 4 behaviors will account for 89 percent of your leadership success this week?

Out of these top 20 leadership behaviors, which 4 do you think really matter according to McKinsey & Company, a global firm that invests more than $400 million dollars annually in knowledge development for leaders?

Here’s the top 20 leadership behaviors to choose from:

1. Be supportive
2. Champion desired change
3. Clarify objectives, rewards, and consequences
4. Communicate prolifically and enthusiastically
5. Develop others
6. Develop and share a collective mission
7. Differentiate among followers
8. Facilitate group collaboration
9. Foster mutual respect
10. Give praise
11. Keep group organized and on task
12. Make quality decisions
13. Motivate and bring out best in others
14. Offer a critical perspective
15. Operate with strong results orientation
16. Recover positively from failures
17. Remain composed and confident in uncertainty
18. Role model organizational values
19. Seek different perspectives
20. Solve problems effectively

There were 4 out of the 20 that McKinsey found to explain 89 percent of the variance between strong and weak organizations in terms of leadership effectiveness. They were number 1, 15, 19, and 20. Yep. Your focus on those 4 behaviors could mean the difference between your success and failure in reaching your desired outcome.

• Be a supportive leader (my resource guide will tell you more about each of these behaviors and how to build your skillset in them)
• Operate with a strong results orientation
• Seek different perspectives
• Solve problems effectively

So how do you measure your effectiveness in those behaviors and develop them?

I’m releasing a brand new ebook on our new Cortex Leadership Consulting website this week entitled: 4 Keys to More Effective Leadership Behaviors that will help you quickly measure your effectiveness in each area.  You’ll then learn, why you might be challenged in that area, which practices and skills sets are most effective in helping you modify your behaviors, and a simple and easy method for getting you started with the change you want to see.

The e-book is currently designed for participants of our Cortex Leadership Program classes and individual executive coaching clients. It is, however, helpful for any professional looking to be more effective in their leadership role.

From many years of training and consulting leaders along with the data from our www.gomonti.com system and hundreds of executive coaching sessions, each chapter will help you and your team quickly identify which exact behaviors you need to modify to improve the results you are currently getting.

Simply follow these two steps:

1. Pick one of the 4 behaviors you would like to further develop that would have the biggest impact on your desired outcomes for this year. Feel free to respond to this email with which one you choose and I will send you a Chapter from the ebook that corresponds with that behavior. 

2. Ask your team which behavior they believe should be a stronger part of your team culture. If it’s different than the one you picked, send that behavior choice to me as well and I will send you a resource guide for that one, too.

If you or your organization is not currently a client of Cortex Leadership Consulting, I would ask that you consider how I might be able to assist you in reaching your goals through one-on-one coaching sessions or group leadership training or a team building retreat this Fall.

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