Leadership: 4 skills to go from manager to leader

‍If we had to give a definition of leadership, we could use the following terms:

“A leader embodies a vision, infuses creative energy and inspires a team to give their all in order to achieve success.”

‍To continue Performer In an increasingly competitive context, companies need to change their leadership models and help managers adopt a leadership position rather than a line manager.

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Otherwise, they may not be able to engage and retain their talents, and to adopt the principles of the “project mode” that is developing within organizations.

‍Being a leader is a skill that can be acquired: any manager in the right conditions can become a leader, regardless of the moment in their career! “From manager to leader” is one of Talentis' flagship accessories.In this article we will discuss the 4 skills to go from manager to leader.

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In summary:

• Leadership: the right posture to adopt to boost collective performance.
• The 4 leadership skills to develop in order to go from manager to leader.
• How can organizations support their managers in their new role?

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Leadership: the right posture to adopt to boost collective performance

For a few years now, we have noticed that major changes are impacting businesses at three levels. : the business, the employees and their ways of collaborating.Currently, we see large groups facing an exponential growth in innovation. Technological advances give “start-ups” the opportunity to offer ever more disruptive solutions. More agile, more flexible, these startups challenge large groups on a daily basis, which must adapt to stay in the race.

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‍At the same time, the new generations entering the labour market want to contribute actively to the success of their organization. Their desire to move the lines and shake up the hierarchy leads companies to review their management model. ways to collaborate are also evolving. Employees are working more and more in project mode, forming transversal, multicultural and/or multifunctional teams. The managers of these projects must therefore adopt their leadership, which will allow them in particular to better understand the ambiguity and complexity, and to acquire the necessary relational and technical flexibility.

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The 4 leadership skills to develop to go from manager to leader

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#Incarner a vision

Today's leader can no longer convince his employees to follow him by holding up the goal sheet alone. The collaborators Are looking for meaning through their jobs. The leader creates a vision and shares it with his teams to give meaning to individual and collective action.

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#Donner envy

The leader must know how to make his teams want. To encourage the desire to give their best in increasingly changing and demanding environments. To transmit this positive energy, it is first and foremost necessary to give to your employees. The keys to trust : consistency, clearness, empathy and frankness. It is by taking care to clearly express your expectations and vision, and Give feedback regularly, that the leader will be able to create an atmosphere conducive to engagement.

#Valoriser collective intelligence

Successes are shared, as are learnings. La co-responsibility has become the watchword for organizations. A leader knows how to surround himself with the most complementary elements to succeed in his mission. The leader of tomorrow knows how to encourage cooperation within his teams but also between teams.

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#Créer the conditions for innovation

Leaders believe in the creative potential of everyone. It gives each collaborator the opportunity to have a voice and be inspired within but also outside the company, and to practice active competitive intelligence. In this way, the leader maximizes the chances of seeing the concept that will make a difference emerge in his team.

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Professional coaching: a tool for developing leadership

Since 2003, Talentis' mission has been to support the development of the leadership of managers and directors. To summarize: to give everyone the keys to become the leader who will be able to meet the challenges of their organization.Being a leader today means having the ability to look the reality of the company in the face and to tell yourself that you are the main actor in the changes to be made at home in order to succeed in this context.Thanks to professional coaching, the manager, leader or collaborator gets to know their resources, their functioning, their talents, their resistances, and to become aware of that he wants to change, ways to achieve it and the benefits that he can find it there.

During support by a Talentis professional coach, the latter will use different approaches and tools (personality questionnaires, theoretical fields, image feedback) to help the person raise the level of self-awareness and develop new resources that they can mobilize in the future to unleash their full potential.

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‍At Talentis we deeply believe that every talent has the capacity to fully develop their leadership and it is for this purpose that we have already supported more than 20,000 managers since 2003.

‍“Leaders Don't Create Followers, They Create More Leaders,” Tom Peters.

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By Aude Bohu, Associate Director of Talentis & Executive Coach

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