You know that our world really needs more leaders and better leaders. However, have you figured out exactly how you too can become a confident leader and help to fill the gap? How can more confidence open doors to more opportunities for you?
Here is some food for thought. The good news is all these are learnable skills. Great leaders you admire are those who realized this earlier than most others. It is never too late for you to get started in the right direction!
Know Thyself: Identify Your Strengths, Overcome Limiting Beliefs and Discover Areas You Need To Pay More Attention To
This is a less-known essential component for leadership mastery. This will help you know your value-drivers, value-violators, triggers, beliefs, and wiring that influence your behavior and predicts how you are likely to show up in different situations. Awareness of these will help you to better connect with others, which is an essential aspect of leadership excellence.
Know Others: Gain Insights into Human Behaviour and Behavioural Psychology for your Leadership Excellence
You will need to build up your ability to read others well. Here are some essential questions you need to find answers for.
- What drives others around you?
- What do they really want?
- How well do you gauge your emotions in the presence of others?
- How well do you manage your emotions?
- How well do you read other people and their agendas?
- What do you know about them that they do not see (Blind-spots)?
Work Together: Rally Others For Common Goals
With heightened self-awareness and ability to read others quickly, you need to find ways to work togethers to that you can rally others for common goals. Here are some questions to reflect on depending on your current proficiency levels. (Once again, these are learnable skills)
- How well do you get other people on your side?
- How well do you demonstrate ownership, confidence, and initiative?
- How often do you ideate? (i.e. think outside your brain and leverage the accumulated collective knowledge of others)
- What’s your idea of a collaborative high-performing team?
- How can you build collaborative teams?
- How well do you build trust and reciprocal relationships with people you work with?
- How well do you sell your ideas so that it is easy for others to buy into your vision and follow your lead?
- What is the ideal team culture you envisage that will encourage everyone to contribute more and achieve more?
Execution: Leading Vision Into Reality
Vision without execution is hallucination. The ability to have ideas and execute them well is what separates good leaders from great leaders. You need to develop processes around
- Talent Development Framework. Have do you recruit, retain, empower and grow your team?
- Dealing with Conflicts, Politics and Difficult people
- Leading Change without Freaking Out
- Focus & Productivity (Goals, Habits, Routines, Habit-Stacking)
- Prioritisation & Delegation (Empowering Others)
- Influence using infusion points
Great leaders you admire are those who realized this earlier than most others. Many are still work in progress, but they never stop learning. It is never too late for you to get started in the right direction!
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