Leadership within You
Six Tips To Develop The Leader Within You
Leadership is not bound to achieving fame or glory; it is about contributing towards the enhancement of society. Leadership can be defined as the process of inspiring and motivating others to achieve a common goal. The modern view is that a leader is a person who is admired for their work. Today there are some youth who immensely lack leadership skills and the great work done by them remains invisible. No one is a leader by birth. But through hard work and firm determination you can improve your leadership skills and can become an effective leader. The article here delivers some tips which will help developing the leader within you.
• Always Be Ready to Face Challenges
Leaders do not have the option of giving up and they should always be ready to face any trouble. Don’t get intimated by any problem but try to overcome it. Remember about the other great leaders and motivate yourself. This will help you to solve the issue. A leader must always be enthusiastic and do all that entails to help their group.
• Celebrate Your Mistakes
It is a fact that no one is perfect and everyone has made some mistakes in their life. So don’t avoid your mistakes and learn the valuable lessons from them. As a strong leader, be willing to admit your failures and rejoice as you gain experiences that boost you towards success. Always appreciate people’s critique.
• Embrace a Positive Attitude
The positive attitude of a leader is one of the powerful tools for effective leadership. Keep one thing in mind that no one will respect a negative person and it will significantly weaken your leadership efforts. The success behind famous leaders is the optimistic attitude they possess. A positive attitude acts as a source of inspiration. Always try to stay positive even when things go bleak. Positive thinking will always be the best aspect which helps in developing the leader within you.
• Be Passionate
Let passion and enthusiasm be part of your projects. This will help you stay focused and achieve your goals. We all want around us people passionate about their work, people having mission. Express your ideas with a zeal which shows that you care about the progress of the society.
• Improve Your Communication Skills
Communication is the key to successful leadership. Therefore, every leader must be constantly developing their communication skills. The leader should be clear and communicative in the ideas which have been developed for the growth of the company. Listening from others is amazing and part of great leadership. We can learn a lot of things by listening to others. Make communication a constant focus for developing a leader within you.
• Increase Your Knowledge
A good leader never stops learning and always wants to improve their skill set. As the famous saying goes on, “Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader”, you should spend some amount of time in reading good books on leadership. Today there are various books on leadership which provide you with a lot of information. So grasp the knowledge from readings. There are also various training programs which are conducted to develop your leadership skills.
I Hope each tip given here will greatly enhance you and help developing the leader within you. So get ready to pursue your leadership positions and become a personality which everyone will want to follow.
Good luck!
What is Authentic Leadership?
Real leaders are true to their principals, willing to admit mistakes and accept responsibility and capable of emerging whole and sound when tested. Authenticity is a particular signature of real leaders – a connecting thread that makes every step in their life journey into a unified whole. It brings all the other qualities of leaders together in a satisfying combination, just as a special spice or a distinct herb can create harmony among the various ingredients that give a meal a memorable flavour. Authentic leaders are able to connect with others so the other are eager to embrace the message and vision.
When we think of leaders who have inspired millions to join great causes, we usually think of men and women of deep authenticity – leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, with his profound personal commitment to Indian independence and non-violent resistance; Nelson Mandela, who sacrificed 27 years in prison before seeing his vision of a free, multiracial South Africa realised; and Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal, who in the sixties selflessly championed the early modernization of the Kingdom.
When I interview job candidates, I like to ask, “Tell me your life story. Explain how one experience led you to the next and what it all means.’ I am often surprised by the number of candidates who are unable to explain how the various things they have done fit together; sometimes they are unwillingly to acknowledge mistakes or to take responsibility for their choices.
By contrast, true leaders welcome having their decisions scrutinised and tested. They understand that a failure of decision is not necessarily a failure of character, and that every mistake is an opportunity to learn and grow. This understanding, too, is an aspect of the authenticity that is a hallmark of the leader.
Authenticity is closely intertwined with integrity and ethics. People who are authentic are unafraid to reveal their true selves – and this can be the case only when they feel sure that they have done what is right according to their best lights, rather than fudging the truth, cutting moral corners or taking advantage of ambiguity to benefit themselves at the expense of others. We often describe people of integrity by saying ‘They have nothing to hide’. And the expression highlights the transparency that goes with integrity and depends upon it.
Until our next blog where I will speak on ‘nurturing’, please be assured that I welcome your comments and discussions.
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Hussein A.Al-Banawi
Author, The Unknown Leader