Leadership: Secrets of Becoming a Great Leader

Leadership is about inspiring others to follow:

Old style leadership anagram

Despotic Anagram (old thinking)

Dictatorial & commanding
Evaluates rather than values
Suspicious and cynical
Power seeking & taking
Oppresses differences
Total control seeker
Intrustive & instructive
Cold and calculating

Nothing too inspiring about despots!

“THE WORLD THAT WE HAVE MADE AS A RESULT OF THE LEVEL OF THINKING WE HAVE DONE THUS FAR CREATES PROBLEMS THAT WE CANNOT SOLVE AT THE SAME LEVEL AT WHICH WE CREATED THEM” – Albert Einstein

So what we need is great teams leveraging on each others ideas and talents inspired by great leaders.

Leadership Anagram (new thinking)

Love of followers is demonstrated
Empathetic with individuals at all levels
Able to create vision & achieve the mission
Democratic decisions & communicates
Empowers & encourages others
Resilient, overcomes setbacks
Sharing, provides for followers needs
Hopeful, positive & future driven
Intelligent, uses the head and heart
Persistent, sticks to the task, never gives up

SO WHICH ONE IS MORE LIKE YOU? – (ACCORDING TO THE STAFF?)

The short wall sign you should put up in your office if you want to learn the formula to becoming a great leader!

A personal oath you can make to yourself if you want to become a great leader:

I will take a long term view, conceive and communicate a well thought out and positive vision that is tested and supported by an appropriate set of values

I will always be innovative and take care to effectively decide what is important and what is just clutter and I will actively promote that which is important.

I will readily elicit and accept help and will stay close and constantly listen to and consider the suggestions made by my key players.

I will strive with passion to build a team (rather than a group) where reward is linked to outcomes and continuous learning is the norm.

I will take care to see, recognize and celebrate the best that followers contribute and allow others to shine and share in the spotlight.

I will actively remember that now is the only time we ever have will always live in the present

I will ungrudgingly be willing to make personal sacrifices to actively ensure the best outcomes for my followers.

So do you really want a leadership role?

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Leadership takes competence and confidence so remember: “The most important words you will ever hear are those that you say to yourself about yourself when you are by yourself.” source unkown.

Ric (orglearn)

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