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How to measure leadership success?

What does success mean for you?

Do you want to be a leader that is driving a big change? Do you want to be a leader that's engaging with the team? So there are different topics when it comes to that question. Ultimately, it's important for you to understand the complexity of a department. Most of the time you're responsible for a department or a team inside of an organization.

So what does the organization say is success? For me it's not just you as an individual. Yes, you as an individual can perform with specific tasks. You can increase the engagement of the team between each other, and that will be reflected to you as the leader if you build this culture inside of the team.

But understanding what is required from the organization, what is the organizational culture, and then the next part is understanding what is the right thing for you. Do you want to make a big career? Do you want to be a leader that is trusted? All this different specifics, you need to clarify first and foremost with yourself.

If that is linked to the organization, then you will understand what is the right thing to do and how the organization and your manager is measuring your performance. In my experience, the performance of a leader is measured on the outcome and output of the team. And that means you need to focus on the team and listen and understand what's right, what's wrong, how they are, and focus on building relationships with them.

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