| If you don't know where you're going, any road | | | | morale improvement, etc.) |
| will take you there--but you won't know when | | | | 3. Leadership Objectives: When will I know that I |
| you get there, because you never really | | | | have been successful? |
| expected to get there in the first place! There are | | | | Leaders should create "primary markers" which |
| folks who live their lives and work their careers | | | | serve as a basic measurement tool indicating |
| based on this motto. Leaders cannot afford such | | | | leadership success or lack of it. Leaders must |
| ambiguity. I would like to suggest that you | | | | know and must be able to communicate these |
| consider the five elements that come together to | | | | indicators to their followers. |
| create a workable leadership strategy. | | | | 4. Leadership Strategy: Which routes are most |
| 1. Leadership Mission: What is your driving purpose | | | | appropriate for us to pursue? |
| or cause? | | | | Leaders recognize there is more than one way to |
| To develop an appropriate leadership mission, the | | | | achieve the desired and stated goals and |
| aspiring leader must determine the "primary | | | | objectives. The most important question to be |
| service" to be offered to his or her followers, | | | | answered involves which method is best for you, |
| including but not limited to information, education, | | | | your followers and your organization. |
| experience, inspiration, courage, vision, or any | | | | 5. Leadership Tactics: Which action plans will I |
| combination of these and others. | | | | initiate? |
| 2. Leadership Goals: Where is it that I can make | | | | With the leadership mission, goals, objectives and |
| the greatest impact? | | | | strategies clearly identified the action plans begin |
| Leaders have the ability to choose their "primary | | | | to take shape. It simply becomes a process of |
| focus" points (i.e., response time, quality | | | | "planning your work and working yourplan! |
| performance, sales volume, profit enhancement, | | | | |