LEADERSHIP

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What is leadership?
What does leadership mean to
you? Every business owner and CEO
wants to be a good leader, but how
can you be a good leader if you
don't know what leadership really
is?
Unfortunately, leadership
doesn't have a one-size-fits-all
definition. We all have our own
ideas about what it means to be a
good leader. For example, some
people think leadership means
guiding others to complete a
particular task, while others believe
it means motivating the members of
your team to be their best selves.

Business News Daily asked 30 business owners

and experts to define what leadership means to
them. Their ideas may just lead you to create your
own definition of leadership. Here's what they had
to say:
"Leadership is having a vision, sharing that
vision and inspiring others to support your vision
while creating their own." Mindy Gibbins-Klein,
founder, REAL Thought Leaders
"Leadership is the ability to guide others
without force into a direction or decision that leaves
them still feeling empowered and accomplished."
Lisa Cash Hanson, CEO, Snuggwugg
"Leadership is the art of serving others by
equipping them with training, tools and people as
well as your time, energy and emotional intelligence

"Effective leadership is providing the vision and

motivation to a team so they work together toward
the same goal, and then understanding the talents
and temperaments of each individual and effectively
motivating each person to contribute individually
their best toward achieving the group goal." Stan
Kimer, president, Total Engagement Consulting by
Kimer
"In my experience, leadership is about three
things: To listen, to inspire and to empower. Over
the years, I've tried to learn to do a much better job
listening actively, making sure I really understand
the other person's point of view, learning from them,
and using that basis of trust and collaboration to
inspire and empower. [It's about] setting the bar
high, and then giving them the time and resources
to do great work." Larry Garfield, president,
Garfield Group

Why is leadership important?

Few things are more important to human activity
than leadership. Effective leadership helps our
nation through times of peril. It makes a business
organization successful. It enables a not-for-profit
organization to fulfill its mission. The effective
leadership of parents enables children to grow
strong and healthy and become productive adults.
Each of us recognizes the importance of
leadership when we vote for our political leaders.
We realize that it matters who is in office, so we
participate in a contest, an election, to choose the
best candidate. Investors recognize the importance
of business leadership when they say that a good
leader can make a success of a weak business plan,
but that a poor leader can ruin even the best plan.

Good Leadership Skills

Top 10 Qualities That Make A

Great Leader:
1)Honesty: Whatever ethical plane you
hold yourself to, when you are
responsible for a team of people, its
important to raise the bar even higher.
Your business and its employees are a
reflection of yourself, and if you make
honest and ethical behavior a key
value, your team will follow suit.
2)Ability to Delegate: Finessing your
brand vision is essential to creating an
organized and efficient business, but if
you dont learn to trust your team with
that vision, you might never progress
to the next stage. Its important to
remember that trusting your team with
your idea is a sign of strength, not

3)Communication: Being able to

clearly and succinctly describe what
you want done is extremely
important. If you cant relate your
vision to your team, you wont all be
working towards the same goal.
4)Sense of Humor: Morale is linked to
productivity, and its your job as the
team leader to instill a positive
energy. Thats where your sense of
humor will finally pay off. If you are
constantly learning to find the humor
in the struggles, your work
environment will become a happy and
healthy space.
5)Confidence: There may be days
where the future of your brand is
worrisome and things arent going
according to plan. Part of your job as
a leader is to put out fires and

6)Commitment: If you expect your

team to work hard and produce
quality content, youre going to need
to lead by example.By proving your
commitment to the brand and your
role, you will not only earn the
respect of your team, but will also
instill that same hardworking energy
among your staff.
7)Positive Attitude: You want to keep
your team motivated towards the
continued success of the company,
and keep the energy levels up.Keep
the office mood a fine balance
between productivity and playfulness.
8)Creativity: As a leader, its important
to learn to think outside the box and
to choose which of two bad choices is
the best option. Dont immediately
choose the first or easiest possibility;

9)Intuition: When leading a team

through uncharted waters, there is no
roadmap on what to do. Everything is
uncertain, and the higher the risk, the
higher the pressure. That is where your
natural intuition has to kick in. Guiding
your team through the process of your
day-to-day tasks can be honed down to
a science. Learning to trust yourself is
as important as your team learning to
trust you.
10)Ability to Inspire: Especially in the
beginning stages of a startup, inspiring
your team to see the vision of the
successes to come is vital. Make your
team feel invested in the
accomplishments of the company.
Whether everyone owns a piece of
equity, or you operate on a bonus
system, generating enthusiasm for the
hard work you are all putting in is so

Leadership styles:

The very first

leadership style is
Authoritarian that
holds however much
power and decision
making possible. It is
mostly to be utilised
when subordinates are
incompetent, not
trusted and their
plans are not
esteemed.

The following one Democratic is maybe

the most prominent administration
style on account of the positive
passionate connotations of acting
fairly. It is prone to be best when
utilised with skilled, independent and
accomplished subordinates.

The Paternalistic style of

Leaders is the person who
chooses what is best for their
subordinates. It is a milder type
of authoritarian leader, which
regularly brings about better
worker inspiration and lower
staff turnover.

The Laissez- faire (honest to goodness) style is termed

to be a confounded one out of all as the supervisor
gives a bit additional flexibility to the subordinates
here by settling on them the own self chief and just
interfere in the middle of if his/her subordinates needs

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