This is one of the buzz words in the business community. Wherever you work you will be asked to show leadership qualities. It does not matter at what level of the hierarchy you are in the organization you are supposed to be a leader. What does this imply? This implies that that anyone can be a leader. Everyone is supposed to have some leadership qualities and the organization always want to bring them out.
First question that arises to my mind when I listen discussion about leadership is what the leadership is? I think it is the ability to convince people around you with your ideas and make them follow you, without the authority, to change something or to produce something different and better.
Next question is (since we already assumed that everyone is a natural leader, good or bad) how to become leader (or how to evolve as a better leader)? If we stick to our definition then it can be achieved by following steps (so simple! In theory it is so simple, practicing these steps is no so easy in practice)
Step 1: Get 360 degree feedback about yourself on a regular interval. And be honest about this. You will get some strong and weak qualities about you. Other people can observe our qualities very easily.
Step 2: Try to polish your strengths and work on improvement of the weaknesses. Weaknesses can be overcome (to an extent) by making conscious efforts.
Step 3: Listen to other people. It will help in understanding other people’s expectations and how they perceive about your goals.
Step 4: Tell them what you want in such a way that they trust you and work hard and sincerely to make the goals achievable.
Step 5: Always be critical of yourself. Ask yourself can I do this thing better? Can this thing be made better? If the answer comes yes, you need to work hard to make your goals better and keep standards higher for your output.
First question that arises to my mind when I listen discussion about leadership is what the leadership is? I think it is the ability to convince people around you with your ideas and make them follow you, without the authority, to change something or to produce something different and better.
Next question is (since we already assumed that everyone is a natural leader, good or bad) how to become leader (or how to evolve as a better leader)? If we stick to our definition then it can be achieved by following steps (so simple! In theory it is so simple, practicing these steps is no so easy in practice)
Step 1: Get 360 degree feedback about yourself on a regular interval. And be honest about this. You will get some strong and weak qualities about you. Other people can observe our qualities very easily.
Step 2: Try to polish your strengths and work on improvement of the weaknesses. Weaknesses can be overcome (to an extent) by making conscious efforts.
Step 3: Listen to other people. It will help in understanding other people’s expectations and how they perceive about your goals.
Step 4: Tell them what you want in such a way that they trust you and work hard and sincerely to make the goals achievable.
Step 5: Always be critical of yourself. Ask yourself can I do this thing better? Can this thing be made better? If the answer comes yes, you need to work hard to make your goals better and keep standards higher for your output.
This is all about leadership. Of course it depends on what definition one has taken for himself/herself. Define your own leadership an chart out a plan to achieve that.
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