Our company has a salesman who brought a contract of 100 million to the company. He came to me and talked about getting a commission. I said that this year's plan should be put forward according to this year's system, and next year's we will negotiate an appropriate increase. At that time, he also said that he was in a much better mood after the conversation, but afterwards I found that his performance was getting worse and worse, and he didn't say anything about being passive and slacking off, and he often muttered ...... to other colleagues"There is a colleague in the R&D department of my company, who was very positive when he first joined the company, and often worked overtime for work, but now he doesn't know what happened, he began to lie flat and procrastinate, and when the death period came, he couldn't come up with something to ......”
The above are two real cases that I heard from entrepreneurs at the salon of [CEO Leadership Together] in Shenzhen.
How to stimulate the motivation and creativity of employees?
How to manage star employees?
How to manage a lying flat employee
This is also the pain point that I found most raised by managers when I became a corporate coach in 2023. 
When I do coaching leadership training and executive coaching, I make one point over and over again:
Good leadership is not made by training, but by your subordinates.
When you find that you can't manage those thorns well, you can't handle the subordinates who lie flat, and you can't stand the rotten employees, congratulations, it's time to improve your leadership!
Because being a leader and managing is essentially a practice, and self-cultivation is both the starting point and the end.
Empower your employeesIt is the ability to lead othersWe all know the three elements of force: magnitude, direction, and point of action. Leadership includes:Lead yourself, lead others, lead your teamThe core of leadership is influence: the ability to influence others to make changes, do what you expect, and achieve a win-win situation. Many managers are Xi to treating everyone with the same leadership style, and this is not the way to go. 
LeadershipforceThe effectiveness of the depends on:Three variables: leader,Be led and situational, which are also the three points of action of leadership.
If the leader, the led, or the situation is different (time, space, stage of enterprise development, etc.), it means that your leadership style needs to be adjusted.
Your leadership style needs to be different between manual and mental workers.
Whether it's an internet industry or a traditional industry, your leadership style needs to be different.
Whether you're a chairman or a general manager needs to be different.
Whether you're a retiree or a young employee, your leadership style needs to be different.
Who are you,determines how you leadWhen I do leadership training, I must start by creating the self-awareness of the manager, because without self-awareness, there will be no change, and once the manager changes first, the company's benefits will be maximized. Because you change 1%, the team will change 10%.
I've found that there are 7 most common leadership styles in Chinese companies, so let's take a look at which one of the leadership styles you use in most situations
Among the companies I have coached, I have found the mostDirective leadershipFront-runner and transactional leadershipDirective leadershipIt can be very effective in the pursuit of efficiency, in an emergency, and in the face of inexperienced employees, but it is not effective in the face of young employees who respect me, competent senior employees, and uncertain problems.
Front-runner leadershipThis type of manager is very hard, and most of them are women. There is usually another common denominator, that is, expert leadership, such as expert bosses and technical bosses. They are very smart, very dedicated, and take care of everything, and they are worried that they will not be able to do well if they let go of their subordinates. This leadership style can still be very convincing in professional positions, when you are still young and professional. But when the profession can't keep up with the development of the times when you are older, and when you face post-00s employees who are not afraid of authority, it is usually ineffective.
Transactional leadershipIn the marketing enterprises, in the era of China's rapid economic development, when there are many market opportunities, it is also very effective, and has created the glory of many enterprises. But it doesn't work in a weak market, in an era of economic downturn, when you can't give more money. It creates a money-oriented, calculating corporate culture, and it can tear up this type of business at a low point.
The above 7 different leadership styles are like 7 different styles of coats, you need to prepare a few more sets to change clothes at the right time. 
Learn Xi coaching leadership styleWhat's the key?If you want to change your employees, you must first change yourself;
If you want to influence your employees, change your leadership style first. Many managers want to add a coaching leadership style to the original leadership style. In an era when ordinary human labor is replaced by robotic AI and creative labor is truly regarded as a corporate resource, coaching leaders are the trend of leadership development. How do you become a coaching leader?The most basic thing is to start by improving your listening skills. Otto Chamo, the creator of the U-shape theory, once said, "Listening is one of the most neglected but greatest leadership skills." ”
It is not easy to change as an adult, but fortunately, once your cognition changes within 3 hours, you are already on the road to change. "Change yourself first, and then influence employees to change";
It turns out that employees need to be managed by category";
In addition to my original directive leadership style, I also need to add a coaching leadership style."
At different stages of business development, my own leadership style needs to change."
I want to improve my listening skills and hear what my employees really want."
If you want to accelerate your leadership growth, we recommend that you find a catalyst: corporate coaching, one-on-one coaching. In 2024, the CEO Leadership Salons and Workshops of the Alliance will continue to be held, and we look forward to cooperating with various platforms, industrial parks, business associations, and public welfare organizations to empower entrepreneurs who are still working hard in the midst of thorns, and jointly help improve the overall leadership level of Chinese enterprises and promote the sustainable development of Chinese enterprises.
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Author: Mingwei Li, EMCC European Mentor & Coach Association Team Coach, Coaching Leadership Trainer.
Corporate coach of Fortune 500 companies, brand strategy consultant who has served 500+ companies for 25 years, is committed to helping enterprises grow in performance and team growth.