For you to break through the success barriers and make a
difference in your own life, you must aspire to a leadership role. You must
develop the ability to persuade and influence others to work with you to
achieve your goals and objectives.
Qualities of a Good
Leader
Becoming
a leader however requires that you understand the roles and responsibilities of leadership and that you
practice the qualities of a good leader until you begin to emerge as a leader
in your personal and business life.
In
your life, you make critical decisions on a regular basis that determine the
course of events for you. Many of the decisions you make have enormous
potential consequences. The choice of a course of study in school can determine
the direction of your life for many years. The choice of a job or a mate in
marriage can be a critical event that determines much of what happens to you in
life for several years.
You
are always free to choose and have the ability to choose, to take command, to
assume a leadership role in your life through several different leadership
styles.
In
fact, all of your life is the result of the choices and decisions you have made
up until this moment. Leaders are those who make better choices and decisions
than others, more often than not and chose to lead by example.
3 Different
Leadership Styles
The
good news about leaders is that they are made, not born. Leaders are largely
self-made as the result of continuously working on themselves over the years.
No one starts off as a leader, but you can aspire to leadership by learning the qualities of a good leader,
and how they think and feel, and then by copying them until you become one
yourself.
Position Power
There
are three major forms of leadership styles in our society today. The first is
“Position” power. Position power refers to the powers of rewarding and punishing that go with a particular title or role.
If
you are made a sales manager or vice president of marketing, you have the power
to hire and fire people, to raise their pay or leave it where it is. You have
the power to hand out privileges or punishment and to alter the terms and
conditions of employment to make them more agreeable or less agreeable. But
whoever has your title has those powers. They are conferred upon you by the
title itself. They go with the position.
Expert Power
The
second type of power is “Expert” power. Expert power arises when you are very,
very good at what you do and as a result, people defer to your opinion and your
judgment. Experts in critical areas for the survival or growth of organizations
have tremendous power, even though they may have no staff at all. Their
decisions and their judgment carry a tremendous weight.
One
of the most important decisions you make during the course of your working life
is to develop “Expert Power” in what you do. By becoming very, very good in
your area of expertise, you develop power out of all proportion to your
position or title. The most respected and valued people in any organization are
those who have developed the ability to make the most valuable and most
consistent contributions to the business. By becoming excellent at what you do,
you set up a force field of energy of magnetism that attracts power and respect
to you.
Ascribed Power
The
third form of power in organizations is called “Ascribed” power. This is power
that is conferred upon you by other people because they like you, trust you,
believe in you and want you to have more influence and authority.
Ascribed
power is a combination of being very good at what you do, being likable, being
results oriented and being perceived as the kind of person who can be the most
helpful to others in helping them achieve their individual goals.
The
effective leader always begins with the “needs” of the situation. The effective
leader always asks, “What does this situation most require of me? What am I
most uniquely capable of contributing to this organization? Of all the things
that I can bring to this organization, what are the one or two things that I
and only I can do that will make
a difference?”
We
said before that the most common characteristic of leadership, throughout the
ages, is that leaders have “vision.” Leaders can see the big picture. Leaders can
project forward 3-5 years and imagine clearly where they want to take the
organization and what it will look like when they get there.
Leaders
have the ability to articulate this vision in such a way that everyone around
them can see and understand where they are going. The leader is the person who
has the ability to articulate an exciting vision of a compelling future that
everyone wants to be a part of.
Perhaps
the most compelling vision that you can articulate for the people around you is
the decision and determination to “be the best” at whatever you do.
Lead by Example and
Make a Difference
One
of the most important qualities of a good leader is for you to lead by example,
to be a role model, to be the kind of person that everyone else looks up to and
wants to be like. One of the characteristics of leaders is that they carry themselves at all
times, even when no one is watching, as if everyone was watching.
Thank
you for reading this article on the qualities of a good leader and how to lead by example in order to make a
difference.
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