LEADERSHIP is a SHIP that needs to be navigated (LEAD) towards its destination — My definition
Leadership is about syncing, managing and making team(s) work towards common goal. Leadership is a responsibility.
We will find tons of Leadership articles all over the internet, videos on youtube, in this article my attempt would be to list key factors which i have learnt from my experiences, reading & listening to some good leaders. I hope that it will help everyone analyse, assess, & help them become a good team leader.
Some of the key factors we will look are
- LEADERSHIP
- DIRECTION
- RECEPTIVITY
- EXECUTION
1. LEADERSHIP
Leadership is about leadership, leading or guiding the team. Leaders take charge of their life and help others take charge of there lives.
Leadership is about knowing what TO DO & what NOT TO DO
Leaders are good at
- Envisioning → Having a clarity about the goals one tends to achieve.
- Anticipating → Predicting and being ready for situations beforehand
- Innovating → Challenging the classic old methodologies
- Articulating → Putting things in simple words
- Simplifying → Making the complex things look simple
- Engaging → Communicating and listening to others
- Inspiring → Motivating in failure and appreciating the success
- Executing → Execution is the key for any process
PUSH & PULL
Push is often refers to when manager releases the directives that all team members need to follow and complete the said task.
Where in Pull is more about participation, collaboration & getting things done by making others follow you.
Though Pull management is most widely used & accepted these days, but both the approaches are important for any successful business, its just that correct strategy needs to be used at right place on right time.
I will not go in much details of it but a detailed article you can read from here Push and Pull
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius and lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
~ Albert Einstein
Leaders don’t follow the HERD Mentality instead they possess Clarity in their own thoughts & goals.
3 things happen in organisation if leadership is not there
- Confusion → Lack of clarity
- Friction → Due to lacking the clarity, friction is generated
- Under Performance → Due to friction & lack of clarity
Leadership is all about taking best out of your team in worst of situations. Try to prepare not only to-do list but also list down what’s next list.
Convey the objectives by giving the clarity and make the team understand the strategic intent behind the task or goal at the same time try and avoid micro managing them.
In next article we will continue with the next point that is DIRECTION,
you can read it here Part 2 : Leadership → Direction, till then let me know your views in comments section. STAY TUNED !!!