How Leadership Dimension Affects the Organizational Structure

by Tara Duggan
Putting someone in charge doesn’t guarantee she’ll develop leadership skills.

Putting someone in charge doesn’t guarantee she’ll develop leadership skills.

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Effective leaders bring people together and enable them to work together to achieve a common goal. By establishing a vision, communicating a strategy and motivating individuals to cooperatively solve problems, these leaders ensure organizational success. By aligning their subordinates’ development goals to specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely strategic objectives, you can establish a functional structure conducive to continuing success. By developing the leadership dimensions of experience, problem solving ability, personality and self-awareness, you can positively impact your organization’s structure and ongoing profitability.


By ensuring that subordinates have the expertise, experience and wisdom to complete job tasks, effective leaders ensure organizational readiness. Using their own wisdom, effective leaders attract, interview, hire and train competent resources that enable the organization to conduct complex operations. By offering training and development courses, you ensure that your company always has employees capable of taking on managerial roles when more experienced employees retire or leave for other jobs. Effective succession planning ensures that your organizational structure remains intact and stable. All roles remain filled with competent staff members.

Problem Solving Ability

Effective leaders analyze work flow to establish clear policies and procedures. They examine operational metrics to ensure production levels produce the desired results. If not, they implement programs to solve problems, such as product defects, low customer satisfaction or high costs. By analyzing the work environment to ensure quality using proven management strategies, such as the Six Sigma methodology for process improvement, leaders solve complex problems that cause waste and low profit. By organizing work so that disruptions and delays get minimized, you ensure the success of your company.


As an effective leader, you use your values and beliefs to motivate your workforce. By setting a positive example, successful business professionals establish a clear mission and objectives for their organizations. You inspire others to follow you by your committing to achieving the defined goals.


By being aware of your limitations, you set realistic goals for yourself and your organization. By focusing on the tasks required to build a successful enterprise rather than punish others who don’t follow your commands, you stand a greater chance of achieving the loyalty and dedication of subordinates need to handle complex operations. By acting with integrity and honesty, you ensure that employees, customers and business partners want to conduct business with you. Creating an environment of trust and safety enables a stable organizational structure where innovative approaches to solving technical or theoretical problems can thrive.

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