Ontario Leadership Framework

Ontario Leadership Framework

Introduction

Observing effective leaders in organizations, it is clear that what they have in common is their commitment to get to know their employees and spend time to motivate and coordinate them. This time is spent "upstream" of the performance, to clarify objectives and operating procedures, and "downstream" of the performance, evaluate the results together, recognize the value and merit and to make any corrective action.

Because workers are different and operational contexts and objectives change in continuation, effective leaders know how to be as flexible, they learn to use a variety of behaviors, know how to get beyond your character and enrich their quality, preventing their instinct would cause you to be more likely, for example, to delegate or centralize or to be strict or lenient. Leadership today can be defined as the ability to express "the best "of people in the pursuit and achievement of objectives organization, while maintaining high satisfaction with their work done and the relational climate.

Discussion

Characteristics of Effective Leader

The general characteristics of leader's efficacy are:

Capacity refers to the ability to resolve individual problems, make judgments and, in general and hard work. Specific characteristics are intelligence, responsiveness, verbal skills, originality and judgment

Achievement: effective leaders tend to have better results, more knowledge and to be better athletes than ineffective leaders

Responsibilities: The specific features are reliability, initiative, persistence, aggressiveness, self-confidence and the desire to excel

Participation and involvement: it features higher for effective leaders, who tend to be more active and more sociable, have a greater capacity to adapt to different situations and show a higher level of cooperation than ineffective leaders

Status: is also an attribute of the leader. Effective leaders have a higher socio-economic status and are more popular than those ineffective.

Communication: He can deal with employees directly, providing continuous information and timely information on objectives and evolution of the organization; the role of people in contributing to the objectives; performance requirements; performance achieved.

Vision: He is able to see how things are and how they will be or are supposed to be. He translates Vision into Objectives, such as performance (which results are to be achieved); sharing (what people need to know); report (like people need to be together with him, with the rest organization).

Relationship: He can create a relationship of mutual trust, based on sincerity and transparency. In addition, he arouses interest, grow, motivate. It addresses the misunderstandings. He admits his mistakes and is therefore ...