Coupled with stress, ethical leadership can lead to employee deviance and turnover

Key points

“If someone is an ethical leader but induces stress, our research shows that his or her employees will feel less support,” said lead author Matthew Quade, Ph.D., assistant professor of management. “Thus, employees who do not feel supported are more likely to consider leaving their jobs or engage in workplace deviance – things like coming in late to work, daydreaming, not following instructions or failing to be as productive as they could be.”

The researchers wrote: “Ethical leadership can be an exacting process of sustaining high ethical standards, ensuring careful practice and enforcement of all rules and meeting leaders’ lofty expectations, all of which can consume time and energy and be perceived by employees as overly demanding or an obstacle to job performance.”

As part of the study, those surveyed were asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed with the following statements:

• My supervisor makes it so that I have to go through a lot of red tape to get my job done.
• Working with my supervisor makes it hard to understand what is expected of me.
• I receive conflicting requests from my supervisor.
• My supervisor creates many hassles to go through to get projects/assignments done.
• Working with him/her thwarts my personal growth and well-being.
• In general, I feel that my supervisor hinders my personal accomplishment.
• I feel that my supervisor constrains my achievement of personal goals and development.

See more at
https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=194125

TimHJRogers@AdaptConsultingGroup.Com

+447797762051 Skype: timhjrogers TimHJRogers@gmail.com

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion

Key points

"Management is doing things right, leadership is about doing the right things." Peter Drucker defines the differential aspects of management (doing things right) versus leadership (doing the right things). All leaders must manage others, but not all managers are leaders. Understand the difference and equip your direct reports to manage the process and simultaneously do the right things for the organization.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion." Alexander the Great employs the concept of "Moira" a term used by ancient Greeks regarding a person's fate or destiny.

Nations are not fearful of lions being led by a sheep, but rather an army of sheep led by lions. It is the personification of leadership, the strong lead and the weak follow. Strong leadership can turn sheep into lions.

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." Lao Tzu implores us to lead by example and being present but empowering others to achieve the goals and mission of the organization. Good leaders give credit to the team and take the blame when things go wrong.

"Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?" Ray Kroc took an underdeveloped hamburger restaurant to a global empire. The adage of green and growing compared to ripe and rotting carries a significant metaphor for leaders. Leaders must engage, grow, evolve, adapt and apply to be successful leaders.

It is when leaders quit learning and think they have evolved to their highest capacity in the organization that they begin to become ripe and rotten. If plants need to be nurtured, so do employees. Nurture others and evolve to be of service to others and watch your leadership domain prosper.

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Steve Jobs argues that innovators are leaders and not followers. Jobs takes this to the next leadership level in that innovators are ones that continually explore, seek new adventures, and have foresight for the next iteration of the organization. As thought leaders continue to innovate and explore new opportunities to make your organization soar to new heights.

See more at
http://www.daily-journal.com/business/main-street-how-to-overcome-poor-leadership/article_5fc76399-e74e-5789-9f55-055f1949f737.html
TimHJRogers@AdaptConsultingGroup.Com

+447797762051 Skype: timhjrogers TimHJRogers@gmail.com

Study examines best leadership styles for entrepreneurial startups

Key points

Transactional leaders focus on supervision, extrinsic rewards and performance in employees. They are concerned with day-to-day progress toward mutual and company goals. In contrast, transformational leaders cultivate motivation and engagement of employees by directing overall behavior toward a shared vision.

“A transformational leader transcends managing day-to-day operations to design strategies for taking the company or work team to the next level of performance and success. Transformational leadership styles focus on team building, motivation and collaboration with employees at different levels to accomplish change for the better,” he explains.

“Essentially, great leaders have a strong passion for challenging goals, and they inspire that in others,” he says. “But if the leader does not work with the follower to achieve this goal, they will not be successful. Leaders, no matter how skilled, cannot achieve their goals alone.”

See more at
https://www.oakland.edu/business/news/2018/winter/study-examines-best-leadership-styles-for-entrepreneurial-startups

TimHJRogers@AdaptConsultingGroup.Com

+447797762051 Skype: timhjrogers TimHJRogers@gmail.com

Five Elements of Collective Leadership

Key points

Research has shown that self-managed teams are more successful and effective than “boss”-driven teams. Daniel Pink has popularized the social science research showing that the internal motivators of purpose, mastery, and autonomy are much more powerful than external motivators (carrot-and-stick approaches).

Collective leadership is a process. It is dependent on the relationships among the parts in the system, whether that system is two people working together; a classroom, team, board, or organization; or a system initiative. In collective leadership, the way the group works together makes it different from a more traditional model of leadership.

This is a shift from thinking of a leader as a “hero” to thinking of a leader as a “host.”

Benefits
Better decisions and increased effectiveness.
Increased self-direction and motivation.
Removing barriers to internal motivation is needed for growth and development.
Shared responsibility.
Realizing potential.
Increased engagement and investment.
Sustainability.

See more at
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/02/01/five-elements-collective-leadership/

TimHJRogers@AdaptConsultingGroup.Com

+447797762051 Skype: timhjrogers TimHJRogers@gmail.com

Two excellent ideas that for Jersey: Data Protection Award + CharityIndex Rankings

DATA PROTECTION EXCELLENCE AWARD CREATED BY INFORMATION COMMISSIONER

The ICO Practitioner Award for Excellence in Data Protection recognises those practitioners who go above and beyond when it comes to data protection.

Contenders for the award will likely be those who have shown inspiring data protection practice and leadership, particularly in the areas of accountability and privacy by design, and have made good use of the resources available from the ICO to help organisations live up to their obligations and inspire public trust and confidence in how they handle personal information.

More detail here
https://tinyurl.com/y8gqzg8r

MACMILLAN TOPS YOUGOV CHARITYINDEX RANKINGS ONCE MORE

CharityIndex measures the public’s perception of charities on a daily basis across a range of measures.

The annual list shows the organisation retains its position at the head of the list while Cancer Research UK stays in second. The British Heart Foundation is in third, up from seventh next year. Guide Dogs rises to fourth (from ninth), ahead of Dogs Trust and RNLI in joint fifth.

More detail here
https://tinyurl.com/y9dtv5kc


CONTACT
TimHJRogers@AdaptConsultingCompany.Com
+447797762051 Skype: timhjrogers TimHJRogers@gmail.com

How achievable is your portfolio of projects in 2018?

In his excellent blog Paul Every, Solitaire Consulting outlines some of the challenges of managing projects.

Key points

1.      By January you will have agreed delivery strategy supported by business cases

2.      You have budget and plans, but not necessary resources

3.      You have non-strategic projects that are demanding attention

He then offered some simple but useful self-assessment questions about how realistic your ambition is and the offers a list of benefits of using a PMO (Project Management Office) to help co-ordinate and manage and external project delivery resources to help deliver.

I won’t offer the detail because I’d like to encourage people to have a read of the article, which you can find here.

https://www.solitaireconsulting.com/2018/01/achievable-portfolio-projects-2018/

SOME REFLECTIONS

My experience is that surprisingly few organisations have an agreed delivery strategy supported by business cases. At best they have a vague idea of what they want to achieve but less about how. Today’s businesses are more agile and responsive, which impairs the ability to design, communicate and deliver a consistent and coherent plan.

In a world of mission, vision, sound-bites and style, business cases, budgets and plans are generally a tool of persuasion than a blue-print for delivery. Often they contain more rhetoric than understanding.

THE IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP

A Project Manager is someone who can deliver exactly what is required, on-time, on-budget, to-specification with low-risk and high-communications

A Project Leader is someone who can help the client develop clarity on exactly what they need. This may be by workshop, facilitation or prototyping. Once that clarity is there developing and delivering is much more straight-forward.

There is no doubt that businesses can benefit from a PMO and external project delivery resources to help deliver. But first and foremost what is needed is the ability to understand the aim and context and then manage the necessary coalition of compromise in order to do a few things well rather than many things badly.

IMPACT OF FAILURE

The failure to co-ordinate and manage is less about the non-delivery of projects but the impact it has on the people who become cynical, suffer change fatigue, and ultimately loose trust in the vision and leadership of the organisation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tim Rogers is a Qualified Change Practitioner and PRINCE2 Project Manager, with an MBA in Management Consultancy. Past projects have included the incorporation of Ports of Jersey and Operations Change and Sales Support for RBSI and NatWest. He is a tutor/lecturer for the Chartered Management Institute. 

CONTACT

TimHJRogers@AdaptConsultingCompany.Com

+447797762051 Skype: timhjrogers TimHJRogers@gmail.com

Microsoft Fights Search Warrants for Overseas Emails in the Supreme Court

Brad Smith - President and Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft says U.S. government can use a search warrant to force a company to seize a customer’s private emails stored in Ireland [and potentially anywhere else] and import them to the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice’s attempt to seize foreign customers’ emails from other countries ignores borders, treaties and international law

The stakes for user privacy in the court’s decision are extremely high. Governments around the world may feel empowered to snoop on the countless emails, chats, and other online communications that cross international boundaries if the court sides with the government.

This is about U.S. warrants to compel U.S. Internet companies to disclose users’ email and digital content stored outside the United States.

Depending on the outcome this will have some GDPR implications and possibly have a huge impact on the future of Microsoft. Who would want an Azure stack if all the data was available to the US government.

ADDITIONAL READING LINKS

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/01/19/something-extraordinary-happened-washington-d-c-yesterday/

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/01/21/2052258/microsoft-fights-search-warrants-for-overseas-emails-in-the-supreme-court

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/eff-supreme-court-protect-privacy-cross-border-data

https://herbapproach.com/network/microsoft-fights-search-warrants-for-overseas-emails-in-the-supreme-court/

NEED SUPPORT WITH GDPR?
  
Jersey Community Partnership and Association of Jersey Charities GDPR update
St Paul's Centre, Tuesday 30th January from 1pm to 3pm.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gdpr-tickets-42277671654

Jersey Charities Q&A
https://gdprjersey.blogspot.com/

Jersey Data Protection Association list of GDPR events
https://www.eventbrite.com/d/jersey--saint-helier/jersey-data-protection-association/

Data Protection Reform in the Channel Islands
https://thinkgdpr.org/
https://thinkgdpr.org/article/gdpr-guidance/

CONTACT

TimHJRogers@AdaptConsultingCompany.Com
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