For more than four decades, I have been involved in almost every aspect of effective leadership, including: identifying and qualifying; to, train, develop and advise thousands of current and/or potential leaders, to serve, personally, on various occasions, as a leader. Perhaps one of the biggest frustrations I faced was trying to instill the need to be a motivating and inspiring leader, while finding out that few of the potential leaders end up ready, willing and able to jump at the opportunity. five needs, to achieve this goal! With that in mind, this article will attempt to briefly consider, examine, review, and discuss these considerations and why this is important.
1. Possessing a true, vital, vibrant vision: Why someone wants to be a leader is often an indication of what they will do if they are elected, selected, or promoted to a specific position! Before selecting a particular individual, organization and stakeholder, one must carefully examine and discover, thoroughly, what (if any) one’s true, vital and vibrant vision is. Visionary leadership requires the willingness and ability to see things, as they were, are, and should be, in the future, in order to make a particular group stronger, more relevant, sustainable, and able to make it through the grade. necessary. of growth! Without this, how can anyone make a significant difference, for the better, forever?
2. Relevant and sustainable: Unless/until the ideas, statements and actions are meaningful, relevant and sustainable, your organization will not achieve its potential. It is never enough, for a true leader, to simply show up and/or be busy, unless what you are doing has a strategic purpose and is accompanied by a well-considered plan of action.
3. Address/respond to concerns and questions: If you want to inspire others, you must voluntarily and proactively encourage questions and thoroughly address any concerns and answer their questions – to their satisfaction (not just yours)! Since there is no such thing as a born leader, those organizations that use professionally designed leadership training programs effectively are almost always more likely to succeed!
Four. Listen/ learn/ empathy: Quality leaders understand and appreciate that they must overcome their tendency to listen to their own voice and prioritize effective listening and relevant learning from every conversation, experience, and analysis! This should create valuable and genuine empathy which, when made a leader’s emphasis, often inspires and motivates others to greater commitment and involvement!
5. Absolute integrity: Most people would like their leader to possess absolute integrity, especially when the temptation could be, much less, inspiring! Therefore, it is wise to realize that someone is always watching, and therefore if you wish to lead, you must realize that someone is always watching and holding you to a higher level.
Since inspired voters are more likely to be more involved, wouldn’t organizations benefit from inspiring and motivating leadership? Are you up to the tasks?