Building a New Leadership Culture

Leading with integrity is essential for business success, but just how do up-and-coming leaders do so with integrity and accountability on a day-to-day basis in a very busy world? Please join our Executive Business Builders Network to chime in on the issues our Joanne Sigurdson, author of Knowledge Bureau’s Business Leadership, Culture, and Continuity Course, is challenging our LinkedIn discussion group with:

Developing your personal leadership skills and applying these to your business means understanding positive leadership traits that are, at times, overlooked. Leading with genuine integrity is one of these essential characteristics. Some ways you can demonstrate that you’re a high-integrity leader:

• Do what you say you’re going to do – particularly with people in the workplace that you’re accountable for, or to
• Only commit to realistic goals – then communicate (but never make excuses) if a commitment cannot be achieved for a legitimate reason
• Demonstrate consistent behaviour day in and day out – credibility is essential
• Ensure that your actions match your values – create a culture of accountability

Being a leader of integrity, says Joanne, is about more than just your personal development. You create a culture of accountability that will be mirrored by everyone you work with. It sets realistic goals for your team to achieve, and ensures they understand what is expected of them.

As excerpted from Knowledge Bureau’s Business Leadership, Culture, and Continuity Course,  this is why a culture of accountability is essential when you’re developing and growing a business:

1. When you make people accountable for their actions, you are effectively teaching them to value their work. Through positive feedback and corrective measures, they learn how their behaviour and actions have an impact on the team. It also helps them recognize the value that they bring to the team and the company’s success, and brings a sense of ownership to what they do.
2. Entrepreneurs cannot do it alone, so it is essential that your employees share your desire to track the results (positive and negative) to the investments you are making. Employees need to understand how they contribute to the organization’s plans and goals and feel responsible for delivering in their particular role.
3. By building a culture of continuous accountability, you as the leader need to think about monitoring and managing your vision and plans as an overall process. While developing your strategic plan is a way to set the expectation and establish commitments, your planning process also should be able to track results and changing assumptions, and revise as you go.

Ready to develop your business and place more emphasis on building a culture based on integrity and accountability? Business Leadership, Culture, and Continuity will assist you with this process by helping you understand what is required to build your leadership and organizational skills, and be prepared for continuous change in tandem with the emerging cycles of your business through its growth to expansion and maturity. It will also help you understand that successful leadership does not stop with you, and how building and coaching a team and new generation of owners is critical to growing the equity in your company over time.

Complete the Executive Business Builder Program to further expand on your leadership skills, and join Knowledge Bureau for an exclusive, informal Business Builder Retreat taking place at this year’s Distinguished Advisor Conference, in Quebec City November 11-14, 2018.

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