First read through Part 1- 6 about how to Lead with meaningful goals.

1. How would you describe your organization’s main objectives?
2. What can you develop in your leadership in order for your team to achieve your objectives?
3. What objective is the most important to create balance in your life?

4. Task:
(a) Describe an important sub-objective that you want to achieve in the next 90 days.
(b) Make an action plan with important steps and measures you need to take to achieve this objective.
(c) Work purposefully each day for 21 days and evaluate yourself after that.
(d) Keep focusing on achieving this objective within the timeframe you have established.

Objectives should give meaning and motivation to accomplish the work. Wise leaders, in addition to the objectives they are connected to in their organization, need a clear idea of what gives balance in their lives.

To summarize this week

To become a wiser leader:
• Create a picture of common opportunities and the direction for your organization.
• Form, together with your lead team, a few and challenging objectives for the organization. Focus on a combination of developing the coworkers, customer satisfaction, working smarter, growth and profitability.
• Gather and communicate with your employees for participation, understanding, and commitment to the objectives.
• Clarify roles and mutual expectations to build your group into a powerful winning team.
• Have regularly a dialogue with yourself and always have ownership of your process.
• Get a clear idea of what gives balance in your life.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead with meaningful goals”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead with meaningful goals the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Everything will come to those who can wait. Most of what is worth fighting for takes time to achieve. The objectives must engage us as leaders to get our people engaged. To help them see progress as a gradual process, one step at a time, one small victory after another. This gives them the energy and motivation to continue the journey.

The wise leader develops a tremendously strong identification with the role that is needed in order to achieve the objectives.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead with meaningful goals”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead with meaningful goals the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Discipline is doing what we have to do and paying the price to bring the vision into reality. It’s giving up something good today for something better tomorrow.

Everything has its price. If we want more, we need to give more. If we want to have a higher yield, we need plough and sow more. The natural law on the development and growth always applies. We reap what we sow.

Objectives will become a reality through our investing in the practice, performance, time, and effort it takes. One small step, and one sacrifice, after another. This takes place day after day as we reach step after step in our development and we gradually take part of the harvest. The vision becomes a reality.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead with meaningful goals”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead with meaningful goals the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Wise leaders get the whole organization to purposefully work towards the achievement of the objectives. This leads to meaningfulness, to creating something of value for society and the world, customers, and employees. A wise leader helps employees in the organization to move their internal desires into the mental creation of the future and to see the potential and the road to development.

A wise leader also helps employees in the organization to grow and enjoy the success that is verified by praise and appreciation in various forms from those around them. This releases energy, power, and momentum.

The leader has to clarify in his or her own heart the greater value he or she want to be a part of creating. A key question to ask is: Who do I want to be? The use of our imagination in order to create inner pictures of success and to develop the spirit of pride for our role gives enthusiasm and focuses our actions.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead with meaningful goals”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead with meaningful goals the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Each division, department, group, or team needs to see the link between what they do and the overall objectives. These objectives are broken down in intermediate objectives that are in turn broken down into individual objectives and contributions, which stimulate employees to do their very best.

Wise leaders formulate meaningful objectives that are:
• Challenging and yet realistic.
• Simple and clear for full understanding.
• Timetabled, so all know when the targets should be achieved.
• Measurable so that everyone can see and monitor the progress made.
• Few, so as to create focus.

Use these criteria when you make up your plan. How do you know that the objectives are challenging and yet realistic for you and your group? What are the exact results you want to achieve? When are you going to achieve them? How can you measure you success? How do you maintan focus?

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead with meaningful goals”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead with meaningful goals the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

I have in my previous blogs described that wise leaders clarify an inspiring vision that works as a beacon for the organization they lead, supported by guiding values. This forms the framework that creates meaning and opens up the motivation of the employees. When all are pulling in the same direction at the same time great things can be achieved.

Wise leaders show how the vision will become a reality by focusing on and connecting the employees to current, meaningful objectives and important questions. Questions that, when answered, release power and energy.

In order to be able to bring up meaningful objectives, the vision needs to be compared to the organization’s current situation. What are working well/are our strengths today and what do we need to develop? We begin by highlighting the positive, what we are excelling in today. This creates energy and helps us get the right perspective on our opportunities for development.

The difference that arises between our present situation (how it is) and our vision (how we want it to be) is creating the creative tension that motivates us to act, develop skills, create relations, and so on.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead with meaningful goals”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead with meaningful goals the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad