Tranquil Leadership |
The need for making available an enabling environment for enhanced performance and productivity is an essential that is known to all. Teams perform better when the working environment is not a representative of the ‘mood swings’ of the manager or leader; rather it is housed within the concept of harmonious and congenial work ethics and culture.
It is the primary responsibility of the leader to ensure that the working conditions for the followers or teammates are friendly and helpful. The availability of a work environment that induces a cooperative spirit more than a cut-throat competitiveness is invariably a great motivator for performance. Leaders must make efforts to emphasise to senior management the importance of maintaining a friendly workforce. A caring management culture must ensure in such difficult terrain of emotions that there are no major impediments of distrust prevailing in relationships between people and business lines.
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In the creation of a performance and merit-based culture of work, a leader must push for openness, both openness of mind and of work. Criticism and counter-criticism that flirts with expression of opinion, emotions and sentiments must be curbed, preferably ‘nipped in the bud’. Pointing out gaps and failures with no actionable and plausible way forward is the challenge, when dealing with conflicting views between the various levels of........