Fullan (2011) describes ‘motion leadership’ as a constructive way of helping leaders to move the institutions, individuals and the whole system forward in an assertive manner while embracing and managing the challenges that are integral to the leading process. The following are the motion leadership ratings for the leader in me:
Relationship First: 4/5: I understand that relationships at work are paramount and significant to gain positive connections and trust of the fellow people. I believe in solid relationships. I get carefully involved in listening to others, find facts and diagnose the situation.
Beware of fat plans: 5/5: I believe in the quality of action and smart goals. I always focus on the right priorities. I prefer to be light on judgment. I always prepare one-page plan and then work accordingly.
Behaviour before beliefs: 3/5: I try to remain calm as soon as the beliefs change or the settings change. But it is a human nature to change the behaviour the moment we get the new insights of new beliefs. I am working on giving people, a non-threatening circumstance where no one unnecessarily loads up on evidence, vision and urgency.
Implementation Dip: 4/5: I make sure that without any fail, I am reinforcing communication through the challenges and struggles so as to persistently mark resilience, perseverance and risk taking. I always try and many time succeed to find alternative ways whenever I am stuck.
Communication during Implementation: 5/5: I believe that communication during implementation is far more important that communication before implementation. When each and every participant communicates with the leader then risk taking and resilience becomes much easy. I believe that it also becomes easy for one and all to get adapted to the changes.
Learn during implementation: 5/5: Learning for me is the path to success. I always ask others and try to learn new things from them. Sharing the ideas help one go easy on the complex path of implementation.
Prior excitement is fragile: 3/5: I know that too much of excitement before anything happens has no base but a certain amount of excitement always motivates me and my team. Premature excitement is bad but I still have to learn to earn and experience the true excitement. I have to master this skill.
Take risks and learn: 4/5: I always try to motivate action and learning from the mistakes at work. I allow failure to happen in my team. I am supportive to my team.
Be assertive: 5/5: For me, it is okay to be assertive. I combine my humility with assertiveness to kick start our journey to success.
Reference:
Fullan, M. (2011). Change leader: Learning to do what matters most. John Wiley & Sons.
