Periodically, when serving in titled positions of leadership, it is imperative to self-evaluate your behaviour performance as a means of staying focused and on target to getting the right things done well. Many times we can best accomplish this self-assessment through the help of others. Feedback tools, used effectively with direct reports, are fundamental and essential to obtaining information relative to your leadership performance.
In the United States Army, they use a metaphor taken from basic rifle marksmanship to describe this feedback mechanism. They call it “correcting your zero.” Rifle marksmanship is a critical skill competency for all soldiers. To be efficient and effective in the use of their individual weapon, each soldier calculates the “zero” for their weapon. Zeroing the weapon serves as a starting point for adjusting to battle sight zero.
The concept of a battle zero is that you adjust the sights of a weapon for a specific distance such as 200 or 300 meters, and that same adjustment (the zero) will coincide with a zero at 25 or 50 meters. The purpose is to ensure that you hit where you aim. Shooting accurately is indispensable to survival on the battlefield, so too, metaphorically, “shooting” accurately is indispensable to performance to survive and thrive in the competitive market place.
Leadership behaviour is the key to “shooting” accurately. It is the key predictor to individual and organizational performance. Whenever performance does not match potential there is a gap between how we are actually performing and what we could be achieving with the appropriate level of what we call the skill of Positive Presence™. Positive Presence and the Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies of Influential Leadership are a break-through approach to self-motivation. It is a new and novel way of approaching personal development that prepares you for the chaos, complexity and lightning-fast pace of today’s healthcare environment, as well as other complex organizational systems. It is an advanced mindset that will thrive in today’s stress-filled work places – a mindset that achieves personal wellbeing – physical, emotional, mental and social.
CORPORATE HARMONY is grateful to Dr. Michael E. Frisina for his contributions to this entry.
Catherine is the President and CEO of CORPORATE HARMONY, providing virtual solutions for leadership development and organizational culture change. Her leadership and coaching experience as a Project Manager in an ever-changing, fast moving technological organization with unrelenting demands drove her to the realization that a positive mindset and strength-building behaviors are essential for today’s complex and chaotic organizational systems. CORPORATE HARMONY’s virtual platform of programs, coaching and performance measurement, is an innovative online technology of tested proprietary content. The world-class content of CORPORATE HARMONY’s Positive Presence Program develops the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and the necessary ‘Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies’ for maintaining a positive and energized mindset and increased performance in today’s complex work environment, and leading to a culture of collaboration and connection. Catherine’s vision for Corporate Harmony is to bring the skill of “Positive Presence” to the corporate world as it becomes more complex, ambiguous and chaotic. Catherine is uniquely positioned to impact organizations’ productivity and long term success, with her powerful vision of eliminating bad stress from every workplace around the globe, bringing purpose into the people equation to promote healthy, productive and meaningful work cultures and turn the tide on the neglect of mental health on a global scale. Catherine is author of the book: “CORPORATE HARMONY – The Performance Link for Today’s Modern Organization” Catherine can be reached at: Catherine.Osborne@corporateharmony.ca or go to ‘contact us’ on our website www.corporateharmony.ca. Catherine is available for consultation, and can be reached by 519-695-3407.