Leadership: GLOBAL ISSUE FOR THIS CENTURY.

In the first place, Why would you like to become a leader?

An answer is not really easy, but it is not difficult either. In fact, the world countries are much more interconnected than a hundred years ago, and tendecies show that it is going to be even more interconnected in the next five decades.

What are the implications? Huge, for instance team work, group work and other initiatives will be daily activities, and certainly not only restricted to your work but to your life as well. So leaders will be asked for to give support to those teams reach their goals.

Chances are you’ll be in several teams at once, and with several roles on each of the teams.

Amazing Leaders

Do you think Elizabeth the First,John F. Kennedy,Gandhi have anything in common?

Piece of cake:They were oustanding leaders.

Through the years we have been delighted to see exceptional leaders to be over their peers and move countries towards great achievements, to stand out over the worst circumstances.

Amazing leaders have two qualities in common, citing Warren Bennis in his work “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 trace 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 world renowned leaders previously mentioned pass the test. I’m confident you’ll find that all of them totally pass the test. Let’s see again the steps of this recipe and check how can we turn ourselves into leaders.

Selling Your Vision

This is as essential as water and sun for living to happen. If you can not sell your vision, you are not exerting leadership. Leading is helping others find the way towards that common objective. Your first assignment is to make that goal as a [desirable] place for all of your coworkers. The objective must resonate in the group’s heads and hearts.

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.

It might seem easy the formula to become a great leadership expert is not. Leadership has to do with your skills to lead, and that set of skills is one you need to develop.

Remember Leadership IS A GLOBAL NEED FOR THIS CENTURY.

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