Siemens Industries: How to Get Others to Follow You
Debbie
Former Operations Manager, Siemens Industries
“As a result of Simon’s coaching, I gained the leadership skills to develop a motivated, high-performing team. After one year, we delivered our business targets, I received a promotion while spending more time with family.”
Problem:“I have no personal life and no balance. I work at least 70 hours each week.”
Assess:
- Gather feedback (360-feedback survey)
- 8 interviews with co-workers, manager, 3 direct reports, and 4 peers
- Recognize strengths
- Identify areas of improvement (strategic and tactical)
Plan:
- 1 year of leadership coaching
- Develop a vision and strategy (personally and for the team)
- Delegation, including accountability, and people development
Follow-Up & Change:
- Shift from task manager to strategic manager
- Collaborative session with management team to figure out long term priorities
- Weekly 1-hour “reflection meeting with herself”
- Identified areas that were time-consuming and worked on delegating to qualified team members
- Engage others to create changes
Measure:
- Shift towards more accountability
- More delegation
- Strategic thinking and visionary approach
- Reduced work hours from an average of 70 to 55-60 per week
- Meeting financial targets with her teams in all 3 products categories (even in a difficult economy)
- Enhanced cohesiveness
- More fun and positive recognition within the entire organization
Results:
- Reducing work hours from average of 70 to 55 -60 per week
- Meeting financial targets with her team in all three products categories, even in a difficult economy
Debbie and her team benefit from a greater sense of accomplishment, enhanced cohesiveness, more fun and positive recognition within the entire Siemens organization. Debbie has become a visionary leader rather than simply a “problem-solver.”