A Good Set of Steps to Start your unique Leadership

Leadership: WORLDWIDE ISSUE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.

First of all, Why would you like to be a leader?

The answer is not really easy, but it is not difficult either. In fact, the world today is much more interconnected than several decades ago, and the trends show that it will be even more interconnected in the following 50 years.

What does it mean? In plain English: team work, collaborative work and other initiatives will be daily activities, and certainly not only confined to your work but to your whole life too. So big are the consequences that leaders are going to be required to help those teams reach their visions.

The odds are you’ll be in more than one team at once, but with different roles on each of the groups.

Historical Leadership

Do you believe Winston Churchill,Napoleon,Elizabeth the First have something in common?

It’s not hard to tell the answer:They were great leaders.

Through centuries we’ve been delighted to see exceptional leaders to be above their peers and move nations towards big achievements, to stand out over the worst circumstances.

Amazing leaders have 2 qualities in common, if you check Warren Bennis in the book “Learning to Lead”:

1. A leader knows that leaders are made and not born.
2. A leader keeps growing and learning every single day.

In Bennis’ book, you can see a couple of steps to be a leader:

1. Get the people you want to lead, to “buy” your vision (or shared objectives).
2. Generate and Sustain Trust.

Please read “the formula” again and try to check if any of the big names previously mentioned pass the test. I’m sure you’ll find that all of them totally pass the test. Let’s check the couple of steps of the formula and see how can we turn ourselves into leaders.

Spreading Your Vision

This is as fundamental as breathing in and out for living to happen. If you fail selling your vision, you’re not exerting leadership. Leading is finding the way towards that known objective. Your Job is to make that goal as a [desirable] territory for all of your followers. That objective must be set in the people’s minds and souls.

Achieving Trust

• Be competent, show you know what you’re doing.
• Be congruent, do what you say and say what you do. Don’t let your actions speak something different from your words.
• Be supportive, stay on the side of your team.
• Be empathic, take care of your people.

As easy as it seems the recipe to turn yourself into a great leadership expert is not. Leadership has to do with your ability to lead, and that ability is one you have to develop.

Don’t forget Leadership IS A GLOBAL ISSUE FOR THE NEXT DECADE.