Everyone wishes to be the LION of his group. Everyone wants to be the leader and lead the group.
And by being a leader, that person wants to REIGN the group.
If it is so, that person doesn't know the meaning of leadership and needs to go through this article.
A leader is a person who represents the group on behalf of all the team members. We all know that a leader must be cool, calm, a good listener and everything. It is very quite true. If a person just throws ideas and orders on his members, he is not called a leader. Not to forget that he is also just a member, just that he has more responsibilities than other people and he needs to manage all those responsibilities.
Describing him in one word, he is the manager of the group.
Being a leader, first of all, you must take views from every member. You merge all the decisions and make the final decision by contributing some modifications on your basis.
Whenever a problem arises, it is you who need to keep calm first. Distribute the load of various people and not just randomly. A good leader knows his members quite well. so distribute loads on appropriate person. Like for example, if any report is to be prepared, you can hand it to a person good at writing content, and not to someone who is in marketing section.
Inevitably, your group will face successes and failures. It is to the entire group that the result belongs, whether a success or a failure. A leader doesn't grab away success all by himself.
To be a good leader, think of yourself as a tree and your members as your branches. If you will grow, so will your branches. When you will fall, so will your branches. And without branches, you are worthless!
Leadership involves:
- Establishing a clear vision,
- Sharing that vision with others so that they will follow willingly,
- Providing the information, knowledge and methods to realize that vision, and coordinating and balancing the conflicting interests of all members and stakeholders.
- A leader steps up in times of crisis, and is able to think and act creatively in difficult situations.
Unlike management, leadership cannot be taught, although it may be learned and enhanced through coaching or mentoring. Someone with great leadership skills today is Bill Gates who, despite early failures, with continued passion and innovation has driven Microsoft and the software industry to success.
leading and motivating by example.
A leader needs to communicate in a way that makes people feel what they need to do.
As a leader of a large group you have to keep in mind that people need to believe in you and know that you're behind any given message. It's not only what you say but truly what you feel and believe. This rule reminds all of us, and leaders in particular, that emotions are a powerful motivator -- or, in some cases, a de-motivator. We're social creatures who need interaction, and you use that to make points when they're important enough.
When you deliver a message face-to-face, it's strikingly different than when you do some kind of mass communication. If we're going to have impact as leaders, we have a responsibility to communicate directly, eyeball-to-eyeball, and with authenticity.
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Have a great day
Colin Tandy