If you're not able to connect with key people in your professional circle, emotionally, I don't think you would ever make it happen as a leader.
By Emotional Connectivity I mean building a strong attachment bond with professionals in your domain of operation: Team members, Suppliers, Service Providers, and keep them sufficiently motivated to maintain and improve upon their current performance level.
Unfortunately, very few leaders take it seriously and, without realizing what's going wrong, they keep descending down the performance ladder and vanish from the Success Domain over a period of time.
Let me share with you a true story, highlighting, how emotional connectivity fuels leadership performance:
Almost 2 decades ago, the CEO of a Multinational Company, who was in the process of closing down Indian Operations in line with Global Re-structuring, hired me for helping his colleagues find out jobs in other organizations. As you all know, it's called outplacement.
On his request, I attended the meeting where he broke the news out to his team members.
Expecting his people to experience a huge psychological pressure in the aftermath, he told me to counsel them one by one.
Well, I did it, but what puzzled me was their reactions: Instead of grieving over a sudden uncertainty jeopardizing their career, they're more concerned about losing the opportunity to work with their CEO.
Through my close interactions with them I could make out that they adored him like a heavenly figure.
He was emotionally connected to his team members, to such an extent, that the news of separation - not from the company, but from him - made them suffocate beyond control.
The CEO I'm taking about is now a successful entrepreneur, heading a group of companies worth more than a hundred million dollar.
No doubt, it's not destiny but his people management skill that could take him to such a great height of career success.
So introspect and assess the depth of Emotional Bonding you have with your team members, both internal and external, who're contributing to your professional success and, if required, act fast to scale it up!
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