From Manager to Visionary: How to Elevate Your Leadership Style
Leadership comes with responsibility—a Responsibility to communicate, execute, and grow. As time evolves, organizations’ requirements also change. We are living in the 21st century, which is technically advanced and modernizing every day. This is where we need a visionary leader to foster sustainable organizational growth.
The need for a significant leader has emerged in today’s potential business ecosystem. The first step to becoming a leader is to be a good manager. There is a process that should be followed to become a visionary leader. The role of the leaders has changed from managing operations to inspiring the workforce to achieve sustainable growth.
Every organization aims to balance its growth rate, and this can only be achieved by grooming managers into visionary leaders.
The coming sections will touch upon managerial duties, the qualities of a visionary leader, and how situational factors play a critical role in developing overall organizational success.
Understanding The Role of the Manager
A manager is indispensable in the effective running of an organization. They have responsibilities including overseeing operation activities, managing teams, and ensuring that all members work effectively. A manager possessing good leadership traits can best inspire the employees, thus boosting morale, which translates to productivity.
Effective leadership also includes a clear vision and the ability to inspire and mentor team members in achieving their targets. Managing operational duties, including scheduling, resource allocation, and budgeting, is an important part of a manager’s role.
Managing optimum resources is the most potent factor in maximizing the organization’s success. Apart from these, a manager should have adequate communication and decision-making skills to perform duties effectively. This all depends on the ability of a manager to lead their team, manage the day-to-day operations, and make good decisions to achieve honor and organizational success.
The Vision for Accepting Leadership
A visionary leader possesses the ability to think strategically, induce innovation, and set long-term goals to achieve the conglomerate’s success. Such a leader inspires and motivates teams to go farther than they could have gone on their own to reach a common goal. Furthermore, apart from managing the day-to-day operations, an admirer and implementer of change is also a visionary leader who keeps abreast with the ever-changing wave of the business landscape.
The core of visionary leadership is creating a culture of innovative and strategic thinking. Organizations will always remain above their competition if their leaders encourage their teams to take on challenges and nurture creative thought.
Why is Leadership Style Important?
Never has there been a need for developing good leaders as perhaps now in an increasingly uncertain world. Why? It is because work is changing, and changing with it are people’s ideas about work.
According to the American Management Association, 48% of organizations prioritize developing global leadership. However, only 18% of international companies feel confident in their leadership pipeline to tackle future challenges.
In modern-day work, it is just as well to change the leadership styles and approaches to meet changing employee needs.
Increased effectiveness in leadership comes with developing a style that stands out as yours and combines a range of styles. It will provide freedom for adaptability to new, emerging scenarios.
To increase the effectiveness of your leadership, you should develop a style that is uniquely and personally yours while incorporating several leadership approaches. This will allow you to be flexible when new circumstances arise.
To achieve success in an organization, a manager must become a visionary leader. Visionary leaders are those who motivate and inspire their colleagues through personal attributes such as strategic thinking, creativity, and the ability to set up goals to be achieved in the long term.
However, the true potential of the leader is realized only when they make sense of the situational impact and understand that their style of leadership and decision-making has to be at variance with the situation. It is good to remember that leaders should always be flexible in a dynamic corporate environment and that leadership development is a lifelong activity.
Companies that have great competitive advantages understand the importance of leadership development at the organizational level and ensure that their managers are equipped to become visionary leaders. The situational impact can carry them far beyond establishing growth and success for their organization while at the same time fostering an innovative and exceptional culture.
Markai Group of Companies believes in investing in leadership training and empowering every manager to elevate their leadership style and become a visionary leader.