How to be a leader

This time I’m sharing my ideas about how you can be a successful leader. There are two questions that I want to pop out.

1.How you can be a leader?

2.How you can earn the respect as a leader?

I like to quote one of favorite mottos from our CEO. “Leaders are not born, Leaders are trained”. I believe the saying. But you should have a proper set of skills to become a good leader. Anyone can be a leader but everyone can’t be a successful leader.

Leadership is coming with great responsibilities. So it’s not a jewelry that you can wear and show off to people as well as it is not about the authority. So handle these responsibilities with care.

If you want to be a leader to show off, don’t ever try to be one. Then your team or the company will reject you and you will be in a deep trouble. Another issue in some people is that they try to control people or try to show their authority. People try to show their authority when they can’t lead the team by setting examples. Another weakness of some people is that they try to be leaders by back stabbing. If you are in one of these categories, it’s time to re think. Otherwise your team will not move a single bit towards objectives.

Leaders should be people who facilitate the required environment and providing necessary guidance to achieve the set of objectives for a team. So to archive those objectives, you can’t do it by yourself. You need to guide your team to archive that and you need to lead the way by showing examples. Most importantly the credit should go to the team. You shouldn’t expect the credit for archive objectives. People who are not good leaders, they try to get the credit for the work which done by the team and try to sustain by using those.

So how you can become a leader? You need to work for that, you need to be trained for that. So you need to train on the required skills and you need to use those skills. While you excel those skills, you will automatically become a leader. People will gather around you and they will look for you. This is where people will start to respect and treat you as a leader.

If you can’t expert the required skill set due to the lack of commitment, then you should not deserve that role. First, you need to understand your strengthsas well as weaknesses and then you need to work on those areas where you need improvements. If you can do these adjustments, believe me you can be a successful leader sooner.

Please think again and react before you become a pain to someone.

I end this article with couple quotes and i will meet you again with an article of 'Required skill set for a successful leader'

“And when we think we lead, we are most led.”

~Lord Byron

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

~John C. Maxwell