“Leader”, a word that may take us to the moon only by thinking about it.
Because if we look back to history, they were potential leaders who had made the great changes for which we have reached at our today’s position. So, most of the times when we hear this word, leader, respect comes to our mind automatically.
And the quotes like John C. Maxwell’s add further point to this thought, “A leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, goes the way.” And not only that we want to acquire or improve our leadership skills, consciously or subconsciously, we want to lead the world and to be a changemaker.
Relevant, right?
If your answer is affirmative, then this article is for you where you can find effective and quite easy insights to enhance and sharpen your leadership skills to become a leader of your people and of your world.
The evolution of leadership requires the recognition and mastery of core strengths and features as the following, which are needed to become a good leader.
- Learn to take initiatives first. Because Maya Angelou once stated, “Nothing will work unless you do.” And the more you work, the more you learn.
- Adopt critical thinking skills. Because the leaders who are good at foreseeing challenges will prevent them from occurring. They may also devise strategies for averting problems. Not only that, critical thinking is one of the most important requirements to be hired at a high-profile job. So, think about it.
- Be an active and effective listener because without it, you cannot go through the situation. So, don’t just hear to react, rather, listen to give a proper response.
- Motivate others continuously. Because a good leader does not just make people her/his followers, instead, she/he tries to bring out the leadership qualities from his/her people too.
- Set a vision and make strategy to face the challenges.
- Learn to find out the common problems and try to set a common goal through teamwork.
- Maintain transparency of your deeds.
- Set the codes of flexibility and accountability.
- John F. Kennedy said, “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” So, try not to stop learning even for a minute.
- Learn how to negotiate and make people understand your points being respectful towards others. You can get this vibe from Theodore Roosevelt- “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
- Enhance the skill of absolute tolerance and it will take you two steps ahead as a leader.
- Find out the solutions and alternatives about how to resolve the intra and inter conflicts.
And through practicing this set of skills, you can become a leader of people’s mind which may reach the world to peace, cohesion and prosperity. So, do give it a go.
You can read our other blogs too.
https://ysseglobal.org/blog/some-hacks-to-keep-concentration-for-a-long-time/
https://ysseglobal.org/blog/some-essential-techniques-for-conflict-resolution/
Farjana Akther
Intern (Content Writing Department)
YSSE.
