Positive Leadership Model

• Premise 1: Processes and systems are powerful force multipliers.
• Premise 2: I have to be the best person I can be in order to lead others.
• Premise 3: People do their best work when positively supported and given room to grow.

Therefore, I created a Positive Leadership Model for myself so I can be the best person I can be and therefore lead others the best I can.

Pillars of Positive Leadership

Manufacturing Success

Success doesn’t happen by accident. Success comes from putting forth effort into accomplishing something. The more disciplined, consistent, focused, and intentional the effort, the greater the odds of success. Conquering a challenge efficiently (and repeatedly) involves executing tasks in an ideal and consistent manner.

Most challenges we set out to conquer are solvable problems, things that have been done before and will be done again. So why re-invent the wheel? Or better yet, why would I just hope that my actions produce the best results?

This is why processes and systems are so powerful. A good process or system has enough structure to ensure we execute in a consistent manner while still being flexible to accommodate a wide variety of situations, expected and unexpected.

That is why I am creating this Positive Leadership Model.

The model is broken into two parts with eight different pillars in total.

In order to lead others effectively, I must lead myself effectively. If I can lead myself effectively, those positive changes in myself will overflow towards others, serving them so they can be the best they can be. This combo builds effective teams that generate a multiplicative output.

The Positive Leadership Model

Inward:

1. Cultivate the mindset with a positive foundation to guarantee growth.
2. Genuinely care about conduct, craft, and impact to build character.
3. Pursue excellence with discipline, consistency, and structure to drive momentum.
4. Stay anchored in integrity, self-control, and wisdom to be above reproach.

Outward:

5. Build others up because the greatest calling of a leader is to serve the team.
6. Foster open dialogue around goals, ideas, and solutions to unify the team.
7. Set clear direction with vision, plans, and tactics to create compounding wins.
8. Create engagement through purpose, agency, and growth to build teams and improve others’ quality of life.

Positive Leadership is all about being constructive and uplifting, using an optimistic, solution oriented focus to work together towards conquering challenges and enriching the lives of everyone involved.

Great leaders don’t just complete tasks, they actually improve the lives of everyone they interact with - especially the group of people they have accepted responsibility for. This is where many ‘bosses’ fall flat. They see the people on their team as just tools to accomplish a task - something to be used, worn out, and discarded as a consumable. I’ve worked for that boss before - someone who thought their employees were completely interchangeable. That does not scale nor does it produce the best results.

The best leaders create environments where people thrive, allowing them to do their best work.

My Positive Leadership Model is in active development.

While I have immense confidence in the ideas in my head, taking all these ideas and distilling them into something cohesive and builds upon itself is quite the (enjoyable) challenge.

I will ‘iterate in public’ on this and welcome feedback.