The healers

On February 17, 2010, in Leadership and attitude, by Neculai Fantanaru

Provide continuity to your leadership, ordering your practices into a mosaic to form an accurate picture of performance.

The last patient was a little girl of only 10 years old, accompanied by her mother. She was complaining of chest pains and in the heart area. She was breathing heavily, coughing and choking from time to time. She could not sleep all night. Her mother was very worried, thought she has tuberculosis.

The little girl laid down on the bed at the doctor’s request.  Impatiently, she orderly and nervously waited for the doctor's verdict.

The doctor examined her carefully at a glance and then slowly touched her chest with his right hand.

- Does it hurt over here?

- No.

Then the doctor moved his hand a little lower, to her stomach.

- How about here?

- Yes, said the little girl starting to cry and with a shaking voice.

The doctor put on his stethoscope and listened to her heart and lungs. Finally, he gave the verdict. The girl had nothing wrong with her heart or lungs, but the pain came from colitis and spread towards her thorax, causing respiratory problems and coughing. The doctor gave her a simple treatment which proved to be effective.

As diagnosis is the most important component of the activity carried on doctors, so determining their ability to organize and carry out an action necessary to achieve a performance is the most important component of your leadership and your efficiency mainly reflects that leader.

The best leaders heal their organizations from their problems by indicating the most effective treatments

Trying to make the company work in such harsh times resembles a lot with a doctor's attempt to offer a patient the suitable treatment, more or less complex, and then to follow his evolution until complete healing. The more skillful and closer to people you are, the more you will be able to find a suitable treatment, so that they would regain their performances, and the company would regain and maintain its “health”.

As a leader, the company's destiny rests in your hands. Even if its chances of survival are minimal, even if nobody believes in a miracle any more, you must try your best to find the best solution in order to save it. However, the first step in this direction it is obviously the careful and competent consultation. Being able to see what the company “suffers from”, to notice the details and establish its staff situation, and then, depending on the symptoms, the gravity of the illness, to give the appropriate treatment.

Placing on a high position doesn't ensure your full success. You only gain success only if you are able to take the company to a front level and keep it there. The people depend on you, on your dexterity and ability to lead, and they put all their hopes in you. If you are not always attentive and careful with them, always prepared to give them a helping hand, always very professional, if you don't take care of them and the company at all times, and if you are not always focused on the objective, you will not have such great performances. As a leader, you must be able to make a change in every person at the level of the entire organization, so it would increase its powers.

Conclusion: All the practices and methods that you use, together, are forming a mosaic image that defines your overall leadership, respectively of your efficiency. The more you manage to prescribe recipes for "recovery" that have long-term positive effects, the more grows and the level of your performance, and even more you will improve your relationships with others.

Provide continuity to your leadership, ordering your practices into a mosaic to form an accurate picture of performance.