8 Questions that will Determine Your Success as a Leader

Your success as a leader will be determined by how you deal with people.

It won’t be defined by your ideas, problem solving, charisma, or brilliance but by how people feel in your organisation.

Do they love working with you and for you. Do they feel valued, inspired, fairly treated, well supported?

This is not just about your current project but will echo into your future.

As you cultivate a reputation as a leader who can gather, nurture and skilfully lead talent or an a mercenary who uses and discards people in pursuit of personal ambition.

Which you end up being seen as will often come down to how you act in a few key moments.

Great leaders have a clear and precise idea of how they will act in these key moments.

The 8 follow questions point to some of those key moments.

1. Who will you be when one of your hires just isn’t working out and you have to let them go?

2. Who will you be when conflict arises between you and others in the leadership?

3. Who will you be when your best performer is causing others in the team to not want to work with them?

4. How will you respond when employees are experiencing stress and overwhelm?

5. Who will you be when hiring, will you look to save money because of the run way or will you speculate on the potential growth from hiring the very best?

6. How will you operate and respond when multiple people require your time and attention at the same time and you are called to choose?

7. How will you respond when there is consistently more work to do than it is possible to do each day knowing that taking away family time and sleep is robbing you of life, health and connection?

8. How will you respond when unexpected failures, mistakes, errors result in delays, large expense or unhappy customers or clients?

These questions come with many possible answers of course but how you face them will often determine the culture that you create and your reputation.

How many of these do you have a precise answer for that serve what you are trying to create?