Global Need: Leadership. The Set of Steps to Start your unique Leadership

Leadership: GLOBAL ISSUE FOR THE NEXT DECADE.

First of all, Is there any motivation to be a leader?

The answer is not really easy, but it is not difficult either. Fact is, the world countries are much more interconnected than several decades ago, and the studies show that the world is going to be even more interconnected in the following 20 years.

What does it mean? In simple terms: team work, collaborative work and any other initiatives are going to be daily activities, and certainly not only limited to your work but to your life too. So leaders are going to be required to help the teams reach their goals.

The odds are you’ll be in more than one team at once, but with several asignments on each of the workgroups.

Amazing Leaders

Do you believe Nelson Mandela,Winston Churchill,Elizabeth the First have anything in common?

Piece of cake:They were fantastic leaders.

Through the years we have been delighted to see great leaders to raise over their peers and move nations towards big achievements, to stand out over difficult times.

Great leaders have 2 qualities in common, citing Warren Bennis in his book “Learning to Lead”:

1. A leader knows that leaders are made and not born.
2. A leader keeps growing and learning every single day.

In Bennis’ work, you can find a couple of steps to become a leader:

1. Get the people you want to lead, to “buy” your vision (or shared objectives).
2. Generate and Sustain Trust.

Please read the steps again and verify if any of the famous names previously mentioned pass the test. I’m confident you’ll find that all of them totally pass the test. Let’s see again the two components of the formula and check how can we become leaders.

Spreading Your Vision

As the first step is as fundamental as water and sun for all of us. If you fail selling your vision, certainly you are not doing leadership. Leading is opening the way towards that known goal. Your Job is to present that vision as a [desirable] territory for all of your teammates. The destination has to resonate in the people’s heads and souls.

Generating Trust

• Be competent, show you know what you’re doing.
• Be congruent, do what you say and say what you do. Don’t let your actions speak something different from your words.
• Be supportive, stay on the side of your team.
• Be empathic, take care of your people.

It seems too easy but the formula to become a great leader is not. Leadership has to do with your skills to lead, and that group of competences is one you have to develop.

Remember Leadership IS A WORLDWIDE ISSUE FOR THIS CENTURY.