Anthony Cavaluzzi understands the importance of strong leadership for a successful business. Especially when turnover rates are at an all-time high, honing in on management development within your business is key to retaining hardworking, vital employees.
Management development and strong leadership are vital to retaining employees, especially in today’s shifting job market. Anthony Cavaluzzi underlines the importance of building leadership that successfully propels the business into the future.
Lead by Example
One of the most important aspects of strong leadership is leading by example. Cavaluzzi states that leading by example shows your management team how you expect them to act within your company.
He notes that it’s critical to lead by example, primarily because of its effectiveness in changing set behavior. Although employees had different expectations in their past employment, it’s crucial to exemplify and discuss your business’ expectations.
Learn Emotional Intelligence
Being a strong leader, says Cavaluzzi, involves navigating emotions advantageously. Becoming more emotionally intelligent makes it so that you can understand and control your feelings and allows you to comprehend and talk about your employees’ feelings.
His team understands that learning how to navigate emotions in the workplace allows for a more influential and effective leader.
How Effective Communication Uplifts Strong Leadership
Communication skills are a vital asset to effective leadership. Not only must leaders know how to express ideas to their employees correctly, says Cavaluzzi, but they also must have the ability to truly listen to others’ feelings and ideas. Through his practice in consulting and developing management, he has mastered the art of communication.
He adds that much of his team’s success can be attributed to effective communication. His team consistently trains to improve their communication skills, making their business more successful.
Building a More Effective Leadership Evaluation Process
One of the keys to their success involves their effective evaluation process. Not only have they mastered the technique of formal evaluations, but they’ve also found ways to give constructive feedback during day-to-day work.
Cavaluzzi and his team list the following ways they’ve developed a robust formal evaluation process:
- Both the employee and leader take time to prepare for evaluation.
- The leader speaks in specifics.
- The leader focuses on the future instead of the past.
Developing Training that Creates Strong Managers
Cavaluzzi has developed a training process he believes builds strong leaders and paves the way toward team success. His management development system involves:
- Assessing status quo
- Knowledge training for business specifics
- Skills training involved in strong leadership
- Consistent reflections on how their training approaches the future of the business
