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Strong organizations depend on quality leadership.
Leaders often underestimate their impact on the success or failure of an organization.
Leaders influence just about everything from the top to the very bottom. They are in charge of setting the organization’s vision and goals and defining, embodying, teaching and assessing the company culture.
The impact of leadership trickles down the company through work styles, work ethic, turnover, customer satisfaction, and ultimately productivity and sales: one’s leadership style significantly influences each area of the business.
In this article, we will discuss the impact of dynamic leadership on an organization so that you can see why it is important to develop and embody the qualities of a dynamic leader.
Qualities of a Great Leader
What is Dynamic Leadership?
Dynamic leadership is about working to build a performance culture. It’s setting the vision and goals for the organization and working with your team to motivate and develop their skills while maintaining the ability to read and react to different individuals and situations.
Dynamic leaders lead by example. They embody the visions and goals, live them, and empower their team to work together in attaining them.
Dynamic leaders lead with integrity. They are honest and trustworthy, and they hold themselves and their teams accountable.
Dynamic leaders also focus on developing others, as they know that as the team learns and grows, the organization learns and grows.
Great leaders don’t run profitable companies by chance—the effects of leadership influence the entire organization. In the end, great leaders run successful companies because they adopt dynamic leadership practices that forge a culture of performance, create an engaged workforce, and enhance performance and profit.
The Impact of Dynamic Leadership
Dynamic Leadership Creates a Culture of Performance
Regardless of how much leadership experience you have, whether you lead a company, a team, or even your peers, the goal is the same; create a performance culture.
Performance culture, sometimes called a high-performance culture, is the ability to get everyone on your team working efficiently and effectively towards the same end goal.
Here are two ways dynamic leadership contributes to a performance culture:
Inspiration and Passion
Dynamic leaders inspire those around them, often with a zealous type of passion.
As employees look to their leaders on how to act, the leader’s behavior sets the tone in the entire organization.
Great leaders always start with the why. They believe in the purpose of the organization, and they communicate the company’s vision and goals and use them to inspire those around them to take up the cause of the organization as their own.
To be a more dynamic leader and contribute to your company’s culture (1) lead by example, and (2) strive to clearly and passionately convey the organization’s (and your) vision and goals.
Win-Win Solutions
Dynamic leaders find the Win-Win. They seek out solutions and agreements that are beneficial to both the organization and its employees, clients, and stakeholders.
A win-win mindset approaches life as a cooperative arena instead of a competitive one. It is an emotional and mental state that seeks mutual gain in all of one’s relationships.
Finding the Win-Win is not about being kind, and it is not a quick-fix solution. Instead, it is a code adhered to by dynamic leaders.
When dynamic leaders approach situations with Win-Win mindsets, it can be felt through employee relationships, client relationships, and relationships with all of the organization’s stakeholders.
To create a performance culture in your organization and be a more dynamic leader, pursue win-win solutions. But, first, you will need to be both confident and empathetic. And you must be kind and sympathetic, but also courageous. To do so–to strike that balance between boldness and consideration–is the core of true maturity and is essential to finding win-win solutions as a dynamic leader.
Dynamic Leadership Leads to a More Engaged Workforce
Dynamic leaders have a profound influence on their employees. Dynamic leadership cultivates a culture that inspires and empowers employees to achieve the company’s mission and vision- bolstering an engaged workforce.
According to the Engagement Institute, up to one-third of employees are disengaged, costing companies up to $550 billion a year.
Dynamic leaders recognize the importance of each individual’s engagement, and they create a caring and empowering work environment that instills confidence in employees.
Dynamic leaders encourage collaboration, teamwork, and trying new things. They also treat mistakes as opportunities for learning rather than as failures that destroy the individual’s self-worth.
When employees are engaged in a dynamic and caring work environment, their productivity, pride, and loyalty soar propelling the firm and its clients to new heights.
Here are two ways dynamic leadership engages and empowers employees
Culture of Learning
Transformational leadership engages employees and keeps them engaged by promoting a culture of learning. They make learning a core value of the organization where it is valued and encouraged. Employee development is prioritized. Mistakes are treated as learning opportunities.
When organizations commit to learning, they also commit to providing the resources needed to support employee learning and development. These resources may come in the form of your own time and attention, talent, trainers, technology, or budget dollars.
Dynamic leaders focus on the development of their workforce and often directly engage in a culture of learning via coaching and education. This provides not only a greater knowledge of their employees’ development and talents but also a more happy and engaged workforce.
To further engage your workforce, create a culture of learning. Devote the time, and resources to capitalize on your employee’s development and harness their full potential. Not only will they be happier and more engaged, they are likely to be more productive as well.
Empowered Employees
Dynamic leaders engage their employees by empowering their employees. They provide their employees the resources, support, accountability, and responsibility to make decisions in their daily work. It’s all about accountability and trust when it comes to employee empowerment.
Employees that are empowered are more loyal, dedicated, and productive. When employees are equipped with the tools and resources they need to successfully manage or lead their own projects, achieve their objectives, and steer their own careers the benefits are countless.
Want to know how great leaders empower their employees from beginning to end?
- Set clear expectations
- Support learning and development
- Encourage communication
- Give employees autonomy
- Delegate and hand out responsibility
- Share constructive feedback
- Provide opportunities for advancement
Try working to incorporate these into your leadership style to further engage your workforce and create a culture of performance.
Dynamic Leadership Leads to Improved Performance & Profit
As you have probably guessed by now, all of these benefits of dynamic leadership greatly affect the bottom line.
Great leadership leads to (1) a culture of performance, (2) inspired, trained, engaged, and empowered employees, and (3) improved performance, increased revenues, and higher profit.
Here is how dynamic leadership impacts productivity and profits:
Productivity
It is no secret that happy employees are more productive. When you inspire, care about, engage, develop, and empower your employees, the results can be astounding.
When employees are inspired and empowered they are much more likely to…
- Have a positive attitude
- Communicate
- Share their ideas
- Embrace change
- Learn and develop their skills
- Be more self-confident
- Go above and beyond
- Take on more responsibility
- Provide outstanding customer service
- Produce reliably great results
- Stay with the organization
According to one study by Bain Research, inspired employees are more than 2x more productive than satisfied employees.
Profit
And ultimately, dynamic leadership leads to profit. As employee engagement and empowerment increase, as productivity escalates, as your workforce goes above and beyond, revenues are bound to increase, costs to decrease and in the end a much more profitable bottom line.
It is never too late to start working on your leadership skills. We’ve outlined the impact Dynamic Leadership can have on your organization, but to implement this skill, you’ll need to master developing trust, creating buy-in, and more to level up your skill to achieve a performance culture. Dive deeper into each of these qualities and take your leadership to the next level with certified in-depth training, download the 11-course Dynamic Leadership Series.
