What's all the hype about Leadership?
Saba Imru
Everyone has leadership skills and everyone can improve them!
So much is being said about leadership, it’s hard to figure out what you should and should not be doing, and in fact, you might shrug it off altogether, thinking that you don’t lead anybody anyway, so why should you care? Here are 3 reasons why leadership is everybody’s business.
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Everybody expresses leadership in some moments in life.
Leadership means achieving something with other people, inspiring them to take action together towards a common goal. It is the ability to mobilize others. You can certainly identify many areas in life, private and professional, in which you are called upon to lead. For example: inspiring your peers at work to accomplish a shared target, organizing a big family event, launching a community activity, leading your team to winning a performance award.
All of us are called upon to express our leadership at some moments in life. So yes, leadership and how we go about it, is everyone’s business. If your leadership skills are weak, you will at best have no impact and will inspire absolutely no-one to do a single thing. At worse, you might fail in your endeavor and perhaps hurt others in the process. If you have good leadership skills, you can create positive movement forwards through which all people will experience satisfaction, success and growth. In principle, the choice is a no-brainer!
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Being promoted may take you out of your comfort zone as a leader.
Simply being appointed to a position that requires you to constantly lead other people is no guarantee that you can just do it. In fact, one of the main reasons for workplace conflict are professionals who are promoted to leadership roles without any support for honing their leadership skills. If you are in such a position, make sure you have what it takes. Increase your self-awareness, educate yourself, develop the right skills, if not you might risk experiencing a great deal of discomfort and see your likeability index suddenly drop!
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The good news – Leadership skills can be learned!
Leadership skills are neither fluffy, fuzzy nor esoteric. Leadership skills are observable attitudes and behaviors, including the ability to build trust, communicate effectively, empower others, think strategically and be a role model. These skills can all be learned and embedded into a new way of being and behaving. There’s only one essential condition……… that you want to !
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