5 Things You Should Do As A Leader
How to inspire others and leave a lasting impression
The Key to bring change is to make people receptive to your ideology.
Leadership is about Inspiration. Changing destinies is the goal of leadership. Inspiration is a light which brings a positive change in lives. Exemplary leaders are equipped with attributes which spread such light to change the lives of people who surround them. Key to bring change is to make people receptive to your ideology. Opening the door to someone's heart is the central challenge of leadership.
- Give respect
“Everyone in every situation deserves respect,”
Being human is the only qualification required to earn respect. Everyone in every situation deserves it. This is the gateway to reaching out to people. Without paying respect, you cannot unlock the potential hidden in a particular individual. Listen to other's views and try to incorporate them into the discussion. Even if the ideas are not worth implementing, appreciating the effort of coming up with an idea will help bring up new ones.
Be gentle in pointing out others' mistakes. They need not be discussed in open forums, neither used to score points. We all learn from failures. Understanding other’s problems allow you to gain their confidence. You may not be able to help them, but that doesn’t matter as long as you are willing to say a few reassuring words for it. These people feel obliged to follow you and help you out in every probable way.
2. Avoid conflict
“The best way to avoid Conflict is to see when its coming,”
Conflict spoils achievements and overshadows the gains. It blurs vision and misdirects energies to non-productive and irrelevant happenings. The best way to deal with conflict is to avoid it. And the best way to avoid conflict is to see when it’s coming.
“Conflict arises when we cannot see beyond our personality”
The diversity of modern life increases the risk of conflict. They arise when we cannot see beyond our own personality. There is no one way to do a particular task, so allows people to experiment. There is always a way around the difference, which outstanding leaders exploit to continue their journey. Discovering such a path can be a challenge, but worth the effort.
3. Give space
“Holding onto a position feels rewarding and comfortable, but the cost is very high,”
Closing doors for others also closes opportunities for you. No one can control the human imagination and talent. When someone tries to keep others out of the game, he is creating a jail for himself, within which he gets trapped.
The greatest advantage of giving others space to grow is the energy that pushes you to move forward and grow even more. Holding onto a position feels rewarding and comfortable, but the cost is very high. Without realizing, you spend your growth energy to become static.
4. Don’t take sides
Decisions are better based upon appropriateness rather than correctness.
There are few absolute rights and wrongs, everything else is relative. This means that decisions are better classified on appropriateness rather than correctness. This principle helps you avoid confrontation and make choices on a case by case. People can be right and wrong depending on the context and outcome parameters. Taking sides traps you in a particular mindset, cutting you off from diverging opinion, and closes the doors of knowledge. Listening to both sides helps you see the bigger picture and understand every perspective about a particular problem.
5. Move forward
“The lessons learnt on a Journey, determine the actual value of the destination”
Don’t get stuck at a position. If you stay at the same position for too long, you are obstructing others' path of growth. Some of them behind the queue will wait patiently for you to move. Others more enthusiastic will break the queue and get ahead of you, while you are busy strengthening your position.
Stasis is a sign of death. Embrace adventure, ride the tide of change and grow collectively. The lessons learnt on a journey, determine the actual value of a destination.
