Eps 1593: most leaders are in positions of power, you do not need to be in order to demonstrate leadership
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Lucas Porter
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Whether you are leading the company or managing a project, your leadership skills can inspire others to achieve shared goals. Value-driven leadership can inspire others not only to follow but also adopt their values as their own. Successful leadership also involves a leaders ability to convey the vision of their company to members of the team.
Leadership always presents challenges for leaders and their abilities. Leadership works through inspiration and confidence in employees; those that truly want to follow leaders can quit anytime. In fact, employees may motivate, motivate, and even challenge their colleagues, as long as they possess the necessary characteristics of leadership -- including the skills of leading and managing. Leaders need to know which motivators work best with their employees or team members in order to foster performance and passion.
A good leader will be able to think critically about the organization or team that they are working in, and will have a solid understanding of its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats . A good leader believes that their duty is to inspire, mentor, and nourish their employees in order to help them to better themselves; they lead by example.
Strong leaders must also be willing to hold their employees accountable to tasks that are in charge of helping promote individual growth within their teams. Leadership values are a subset of values that have positive impact on an individuals ability to effectively lead or to be a good leader. One value many employees value in leaders is accountability.
Those at the top of their job, wanting to competently guide their employees, require the qualities of a leader. Employees--including those not occupying a supervisory role--can potentially be leaders. Everyone at the company -- even the individual members and consultants -- is a leader in some capacity, making leadership skills and qualities essential to possess regardless of title. Unsurprisingly, you can find various lists out there that outline leadership skills that someone must have in order to become a great leader in their place of work.
If you want to be a more effective leader within your organization or field, these are the most essential skills that you need to develop in order to achieve this. Here are the top ten leadership skills that make for strong leaders in the workplace. To help you understand what effect each kind of leader has in the business, I am going to explain eight of the most common types of leadership styles that are currently at work, and just how effective they are. Leaders may bring in a combination of the leadership styles described above depending on the industry they are working in and the obstacles they are facing.
In autocratic leadership, a leader makes decisions without taking input from those reporting to him or her. Democratic leadership is just like it sounds: The leader makes decisions based on input from every member of the team. Democratic leadership is also similar to the way decisions might be made at corporate board meetings.
This style of leadership may listen and consider employee input--unlike autocratic leadership--but leaders are inclined to dismiss an employees input if it conflicts with corporate policies or past practices. This traditional form of leadership is often the easiest and most direct way to do things, but formal authority is not the only type of influence that one can have -- or should have -- within an organization. By showing qualities associated with leadership, and building networks and relationships across the organization and beyond, you can extend your influence into areas in which you do not have formal authority, and do more easily. If you take ownership of your work and show up as a leader, others in your organization will start seeing you as one.
It is good for your future employers to think of you as a leader, or potential leader, right from the beginning. There is no single way to be a leader, so if you take time to reflect on what leadership means to you individually, you will not be giving the wrong answer. One of the key ways to become a great leader is to become self-aware enough to know your strengths and weaknesses, and build an authentic style of leadership that is true to who you are and how you go about doing the best work.
Acknowledging the attitudes and tendencies that stand in the way of your effectiveness, and working on working past them, is an absolute must-do if you want to be an effective leader. At the same time, acknowledging and conquering fears can transform a mediocre leader into a great one. One of the biggest mistakes leaders can make is being threatened by others abilities.
Anyone who is stepping into a leadership position needs to know what values they have, what strengths they have, and what areas they can improve as a leader. True leaders are always ready to help their team members look for ways to develop new skills or improve on an area of weakness, are able to identify and execute strategies that will help the entire organization grow, and, perhaps most important, are able to look inward and determine areas that they would like to improve -- then take action.
These are qualities and skills in leadership that everyone, no matter their formal position of leadership, can cultivate, and developing these skills will help you to make great strides both at getting things done, and at becoming more formally in charge, should that be your end goal. By accepting the concept that you can develop leadership qualities, you also have leadership values that you can develop.