Leadership

Leadership is an essential of management .It guides and influences employees.It establishes direction,manages changes and builds a team.It is essential to drive strategy implementation forward.Effective leaders carry out the following tasks to effectively implementation strategy.

1. Leading :Guiding,influencing and motivating people for effective implementation.Staying on top of what is happening.Pushing corrective actions.Setting directions.
2. Performance based reward:Tying rewards and incentives to implementation performance.
3. Supportive environment :Creating a strategy supportive work environment.
4. Open communication:Promoting open communication to reduce conflicts and manage change.
5. Environmental adaption:Keep the organization responsive to changing forces that affect implementation.
6. Team building :Achieve synergistic effects through teams building.The organization structure is redesigned.
7. Benchmarking :Instituting best practices and pushing for continuous improvements.Ensuring organizational coomitment to excellence.
8. Shaping organizational culture :Shaping conducive organizational refers to a set of values,beliefs,symbols and assumptions shared in common throughout the organization.It is shaped by:

• Emphasizing dominant values.They reinforce strategic advantage.They can center around quality,cost,speed,differentiation,service,efficiency.
• Institutionalizing practices that reinforce desired values and beliefs.Stories and legends are disseminated.
• Using rewards systems and structures.
• Managing strategy culture relationships for strategy culture fit.
• Promoting ethical behavior.