Strong Leadership - Why is it Important?

Here at Douglas Scott, we invest in leadership – we want our team to excel, and it is only through having good, clear, and fair management that we can succeed as a team.

We continually develop our team’s management skills, with training from Mike Ode of Potential Unleashed to develop their skills further, to better understand how to be effective leaders and to understand their colleagues, candidates, and clients better.

However, others struggle with management, and they end up failing as a result.

As such, we wanted to break down how having effective management can help a team achieve their goals and unlock their full potential.

Quite simply, there are a few reasons why communication is important. Siena Heights University have broken this down into 10 distinct reasons:
• Improves communication
• Creates a better working environment
• Improves productivity
• Increases efficiency
• Decreases mistakes
• Motivates employees
• Sets good examples
• Inspires hard work
• Creates a strong vision
• Keep employees focused and on target

All these things might seem obvious, but, without effective management, they can quickly become lost, and your team can break down as a result.

Good management can make quick and informed decisions, solve problem effectively, and make all their employees feel valued and respected.

Paul Davey, the CEO of Investors in People, believes that:
“Investing in your people is not only the right thing to do, it’s proven to be essential in delivering sustainable results, especially in a crisis. Organisations that lead, support, and develop their workforce effectively are 17% more productive and 21% more profitable.”

Our Salary Survey has found that, across the board, there are many reasons why people leave jobs, but conflict in the workplace is not uncommon. In some regions, it is as high as 7.26%, which shows that while businesses are trying effective managers, not everyone is succeeding at it. There is an old saying – ‘people don’t leave businesses, they leave leaders’ - and there is a lot of truth in that.

People might underestimate leadership, thinking that a team will do what you want without little in the way of direction or guidance. However, by making that mistake, your team can end up not fulfilling what you want of them.

The leadership of a business is felt throughout an organisation and can be the difference between a company’s success or failings.