Whether you are a Business Turnaround Consultant or the Company CEO, leaders is the most important factor in a successful Business Turnaround. This article explores the leadership traits and characteristics that are important to have in order to successfully guide a company to a turnaround rebound. Remember that a successful Business Turnaround starts with good leadership!
Good TurnAround Leadership Qualities
An effective turnaround leader will have extensive business experience, great expertise and business knowledge with great leadership qualities. This provides a solid foundation for the turnaround strategy.
- Determined and Self- Disciplined
- Inspires the Troops
- Makes Timely, critical Decisions
- Has Clear, Concrete, Simple Vision
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Street Smart
- Charisma: Inspires Employees to follow
- super Intelligent, yet has Common Sense
- Practical
- Not Guided by Ego
- Performance Accountability
- Quickly Learns and Adapts
- Flexible
- Open to New Ideas
- Understands Personal and Professional Weaknesses
- Excellent Listener
- Actions Implemented with Clarity, consistence and Commitment
- Utilizes Different Leadership Approaches and Roles as required?
- Tough, yet Exceedingly Fair
- Humbled by Business Learning Experiences
- surefooted
- Never forgets who He or She is as a Person
- Dynamic
- Multi-Talented
Knowing these important Turnaround Leadership Qualities and skills, the Business Owner can determine his or her weak areas and fill those gaps with a Turnaround Team containing these important leadership elements. The Turnaround Team can consist of:
- Business Consultant
- Turnaround Specialist
- Interim CEO / Turnaround CEO
- Accounting Firm
- Legal Firm
- Public Relations Firm
Depending on how complicated or large the turnaround situation is, the turnaround team can certainly be smaller. The turnaround specialist and business consultant are often one person, and it may not be required to replace the current CEO with an interim one. Accounting and Legal firms are always quite essential in a turnaround situation and can be of value advisors to the turnaround team. A PR Firm isn’t always necessary, depending on the size of the company, scope of the turnaround, and amount and distribution of the company’s customer base. If a sale, liquidation, restructuring or bankruptcy is necessary, then the turnaround consultant is often assisted by experts and specialists in those areas
About the Writer – Frank Goley of ABC Business Consulting
Frank Goley is a business consultant, business turnaround consultant and business plan consultant for ABC Business Consulting. He has been helping companies to succeed for many years. Frank wrote his first business plan over twenty years ago. He is an expert in developing business plans, marketing plans, funding plans, strategic plans, turnaround plans, web marketing strategies, and project specific business plans. Frank is also a business coach and a web development, web marketing and web seo consultant. Frank is the author of a business plan book, The Comprehensive Business Plan Workbook – A Step by Step Guide to Effective Business Planning, and he has over 50 published articles and e-books on business success strategies. He also writes the Business Success Strategies Blog.
