Leadership

Hello, Leaders One of the most important steps to unlocking your leadership, is motivating yourself and most of all your team.  Motivation is a goal-oriented characteristic that helps a person achieve his objectives. It pushes an individual to work hard at achieving his or her goals. An executive must have the right leadership traits to influence motivation. However, there is no specific blueprint for motivation. As a leader, one should keep an open perspective on human nature. Knowing different needs of subordinates will certainly make the decision-making process easier. Both an employee as well as manager must possess leadership and motivational traits. An effective leader must have a thorough knowledge of motivational factors for others. He must understand the basic needs of employees, peers and his superiors. Leadership is used as a means of motivating others. So, how can you motivate your team? Here are 8 examples of how to motivate your team: 1. Start with sch...

Hi Leaders I recently had an assessment with my boss for a possible promotion, and while we were discussing leadership, he made mention of " servant leadership ". This totally resonated with me, as I have always believed that to be a leader, one must be a servant first to know how to lead. In becoming or being a servant, the most important step to this state of leadership is, becoming humble. Humility and ego do not see eye-to-eye and will definitely be at odds with one another. To give you a quick view of the difference between traditional leadership compared to servant leadership, here is a simple diagram: As you can see, the roles of importance has flipped. So what is servant leadership exactly? While servant leadership is a timeless concept, the phrase “servant leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, Greenleaf said: “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with th...

Hi Leaders "Let me ask you a question: If you were crafting a list of behaviour patterns that you think good leaders need to be successful, what would be included?" One person suggested that you needed to be politically wise to truly  manoeuvre  your way through a newsroom (gossip parties); that if you weren't, you would essentially be eaten alive. I understand the politics of a office chit chat all too well. But I also know that, as a leader, you can discourage it or encourage it. You can operate with what has become known as creative tension or you can let it be known that playing politics will get you absolutely nowhere. I did my best to practice the latter, and those working with me know I have no tolerance for politics and the gossip that accompanies it. Another point of contention came when a mid-level manager questioned whether you had to work longer and harder than everyone else to get ahead. And, he added, do people who work for you feel they have t...