Leadership skills

[deepshikha_bhardwaj]

           10 Ways To Improve Your Leadership Skills

Whether you are consciously aware of it or not, on some level you are continually leading yourself and others. As a result, it would only make sense that you strive to improve your leadership skills and get the most out of life for everyone in your sphere.If you desire to lead a passion-filled life wherein you are a positive influence to everyone.....you will enjoy incorporating the following practices to assist you in consistently living your life as a conscious and strong LEADER.

1. Have a clear vision of yourself, others, and the world. Who are you? What do you stand for? What is your life purpose? Why and how do you want to influence others? How do you want to contribute to yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, and the world? Answer these questions to formulate a concrete vision of yourself and your world.Then, start living your life as the leader who makes your vision a reality!

2. Know and utilise your strengths and gifts. You have unique gifts that you were born with and personal strengths you've developed over your lifetime. Realizing and utilizing these gifts and strengths will assist you in being a formidable leader.

3. Live in accordance with your morals and values. Making choices and taking actions out of accordance with your morals and values leaves you with a nagging "bad" feeling. This feeling seeping in from your subconscious mind hinders your success in your career and your relationships. On the other hand, making choices and taking actions aligned with your morals and values helps you succeed almost effortlessly. People sense integrity and will naturally respect your opinion and leadership.

 4. Lead others with inclusiveness and compassion.The greatest leaders are those who include everyone in their sphere of influence by recognising each person's greatest value. To be one of these leaders, look beyond the obvious and see others with insight and compassion. Many of history's greatest leaders have admitted that they rose to the top because another leader recognised and harnessed their potential.

5. Set definitive goals and follow concrete action plans.You have to know where your destination is before you can map out a plan to get there. To improve your leadership skills, first set specific life goals with appropriate timelines. Design your goals by moving backwards from the end of your life to the present week.Then, formulate action plans you can commit to that will get you to where you want to be.

6. Maintain a positive attitude. No one respects a grumpy or negative person. With a positive attitude you are looking at the bright side of life. People are naturally attracted to you when you have a positive attitude. By being positive, you will lead a happier life, as well as be surrounded by other positive people. You will also magically attract exciting offers and possibilities.

7. Improve communication skills. Having great leadership skills includes your being able to clearly and specifically communicate your vision, goals, skills, intentions, and expectations to others. This also includes your ability to listen to what other people are consciously or unconsciously communicating. To become a great communicator, continually strive to improve your verbal, nonverbal, and listening skills.

8. Motivate others to greatness.A leader is as powerful as his team. As a leader, you will want to surround yourself with a powerful team by assisting others in recognising and utilising their strengths, gifts, and potential. Motivating others to their own greatness will improve the group energy....increase the vitality of your projects.....and move you forward toward achieving your goals and vision.

9. Be willing to admit and learn from your failures and weaknesses. Face it ......No one is perfect..... and everyone has made a mistake or two in their lives! The most successful leaders know that the key to success is not in avoiding falling or failing, but in learnning from their mistakes. As a strong leader, you will also be able to communicate your weaknesses to your team, so that you and your team can appoint someone who excels at that particular task or activity.

10. Continue to educate and improve yourself. Great leaders continue to improve themselves in every possible way. The person who thinks he is an expert, has a lot more to learn. Never stop learning. Be receptive to everyone's perceptions and information from around the world and beyond.

 

 

 

[nishthadhope]

Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam :  'A Leader Should Know How to  Manage Failure'

When asked:  Could you give an example, from your own experience, of how leaders should manage failure?
Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India 's satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India 's "Rohini" satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.
By 1979 -- I think the month was August -- we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At four minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts -- I had four or five of them with me -- told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal . It was a big failure.
That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India ]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.
The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite -- and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, "You conduct the press conference today."
I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.

[anujain]

I got this story from Sharat Thakur's blog and it impressed me a great deal.

There is one advertisement on the television these days. There is a big traffic jam on the road, because of an intermittent storm. A huge tree had fallen on the road. Everybody was stuck on the road. Then a 10 year old child came, and he tried to move the tree. Other children on the street followed suit, and within few minutes there were ten more children. All the people in their vehicle were looking at this, and they got the inspiration from these kids and everybody starting lending their hand in moving the tree.
This story is as inspiring as any other story. This is one of a great example of what true leadership is all about. Leaders need not be the strongest or the most capable person in the world, but the most important quality is that they have initiative. The child was too feeble to move the tree, yet he took the initiative, and after that people followed suit. It is a widely known fact that the world follows the leaders.
Many people complain that they don’t have the opportunity to exercise their leadership skills, as they don’t have the leader’s label attached to their title. All I can say to such people is to change the way they think. There will definitely be constraints if you don’t have the leadership tag, but the way you operate will define the way you want to lead. Leadership is in attitude, not in title. Leaders carry their leadership qualities with them wherever they go. Leadership is a very infectious trait, as it spreads like virus. Leadership has its own viral nature. So all it takes for someone is to stand up and take the lead. The others will surely follow.
We tend to have too many excuses when it comes to leading an initiative. Everybody comes up thousands of excuses all the time. If we want to make a difference, if we want to stand out of the crowd, then we have to come out of the cobweb of excuses and run over them. For the above given example, everybody could see that there is a problem with the tree lying on the middle of the road. Everybody was expecting that somebody else will take the lead in removing it. In fact, for some people they could not even think of looking for a solution. They were blaming the storm, they were blaming the civic authorities, they were blaming each other and they were blaming what not. Its high time when we think of the world as our own home, and do things outside just as we do in our own home. Imagine a tree falling on top of your house. Will you wait for your neighbor to come and remove it? No, obviously not. You will be proactive and do every possible thing to get it removed as soon as possible.
Every now and then, we undermine our own inner strength. I remember one story – there was one boy who always wanted to climb a wall which was a bit too high for him. He had tried it many time, but could not do it. Once it happened that a street dog started running after him. The boy started running towards the wall. When he reached the wall, he easily climbed to go to the other side of the wall. When he reached the other side of the wall, he was surprised with his ability to jump across the wall. That’s what happens to us – we don’t stretch ourselves beyond one limit. We don’t unearth the limitless potential that we have. We all have tremendous energy within us, but we need to find it out, dig deep and ignite this spirit.
Take the lead, lead the world, and make a difference.

[sarah_9]

Hello,

 

This is one of the best post i have ever read, i have no words to explian my self, it is really very good, thanks a million for sharing it.

 

Regards,

sarah_9

 

Leadeship Books