Louis CarterFounder and Chief Executive Officer, Best Practice Institute · Founder and CEO, Best Practice Institute - Most Loved Workplace® | Organizational Psychologist | Creator of AI Workplace Intelligence and Employer Branding Platform

Coaching Leaders and Companies to Become Even Greater -The Most Loved Leader Framework

10 Aug 2021 · 3 min

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In this leadership coaching segment, the speaker outlines a four‑pillar framework for becoming a "most loved" or highly effective leader. The first pillar is a clear, simple vision that everyone in the organization can understand and rally behind. The second pillar stresses the importance of gathering and acting on feedback about how the leader is perceived, a practice most leaders neglect. The third pillar focuses on delivering superior business outcomes through well‑defined Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), milestones, and a culture of execution and accountability, contrasting this with "lazy leadership" that stalls progress. The fourth pillar emphasizes respect built on integrity—leaders must align their words and actions, treating others with the respect they expect to receive. The speaker also highlights a broader "sensitivity crisis" and the detrimental effects of lazy leadership on organizational health. Throughout, the talk is instructional, urging leaders to adopt these practices to foster consensus, accountability, and mutual respect.

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Here's the framework for becoming a most loved leader or great leader, most effective leader. First is having that clear vision, coming in with that clear vision of yourself and your company, what you want to do, where you want to go, making it really simple for people to grasp. Not just your vision, your goals, where you're going, what you expect to happen. Having that clear and concise for people will just massively will help. A second is really knowing what's around the corners, understanding what people are saying, about you, thinking about you, because often as a leader, you just don't know these things. And it's hard to collect that kind of information on your own. And this is a chance to actually do that. And it's a process by which not many people do. And it's essential to becoming that effective leader and then encouraging others to do the same so you can get full consensus. The third is around greater business results. This is essential because, as we'll go through later on in the Leadership Bootcamp, we'll talk about Objectives, key results, and milestones, key results, goals, key results. These are all things that you can create for yourself and your company, actually hold people accountable and get rid of what we call lazy leadership. Lazy leadership has been eroding our organization. People are slow rolling and they're not quite getting into that execution and accountability phase. Talk about that a little bit later about what execution accountability is and how to implement that kind of objectives and key results that people are held accountable. The next one is respect building. What that really means is I give you respect and I get respect back, or I get respect and I give you respect back. And that's really about integrity, making sure that what you're doing is the same as what you're saying and, and actually enabling inside your company. So if I step on people's feet or if I'm doing something that I shouldn't be doing and I expect people to just be emotionally empathetic and regulated with you? Eh, not quite. Doesn't quite work that way. If you're blurring the lines and you're stepping over the lines, you don't have that integrity, you're disrespecting the system, chances are you're not going to get that respect back. And that's really part of this whole sort of sensitivity crisis that everybody is going through right now, and lazy leadership, which is really about, am I truly respecting the values and integrity of the firm and the company and each leader in a way that we can establish true objectives and goals and vision of the company?