Ordnung muss sein - 1

If you ask me to describe my leadership style <s>with</s> in one sentence, I`ll say "Ordnung muss sein". This German phrase means “order must prevail”. <s>Related</s> In relation to leadership style, <s>to me</s> it means that I want you to follow what I know to be the appropriate behaviour in a situation. I`m not a stressed manager or an innovative manager and I can act as a good manager in a well-known sphere, where I have <s>my</s> personal experience. So first of all, I <s>get</s> gain <s>my</s> experience, develop my knowledge, then I teach my staff and after that, I can check if employees <s>behave</s> are behaving in a proper manner.

Let me give you an example. There was one year when I got promoted 3 times and ended up as a Deputy FOM in a 4*hotel in the city center. At that time I already had <s>a</s> 2 years of experience in hospitality and that`s why I knew the procedures, I knew the guests staying in the hotel, and I knew how to teach new employees. And I enjoyed that process!

But please understand me <s>correctly</s>. You need to follow what I say. Because I know better. And I <s>expect that from</s> have high expectations of my staff. I expect them to be as honest, hard-working, enthusiastic, and reliable as I am. I am ready to lead by example and <s>that`s </s> it's extremely difficult for me to be <s>a</s> the superior of lazy non-motivated people. I`m lost when I need to manage those who don`t want to work, those who`d <s>better </s> rather polish their nails during work time!

You may say that I`m kind of stubborn and non-flexible. Well, I just want everything to be in order as per my view I know I`m not an innovative leader and whenever my manager used to come up with new ideas I didn`t say “Let`s give it a try” but “that is not going to work out“. I expected myself <s>being</s> to be very straight and not to <s>adopt</s> adapt my leadership style to changing surroundings but my opinion has changed a bit. During my project preparation, I was asked to complete a questionnaire to identify my leadership style. And I was surprised that my result shows that I use 2 or even 3 different leadership styles. Slide We usually consider the democratic style to be contrary to the authoritative, but they are just different. I`ll give some examples based on my leadership experience in TM.