A good leadership style is often difficult to define as it is more qualitative than quantitative. Some say that a good leader gets the job done, while others argue that a good leader simply inspires and motivates his team. In other words, a good leader gets the work done by inspiring others and he does so, because not only does he know the best method of doing the job, but he helps the doer to look at the bigger canvas. He shows him the path of progress, of independence and the route to success. To put it simply a good leader knows how to get the best out of his team. He has a vision which he constantly shares with his people.
But how does a person get to develop leadership skills? Is it an innate quality or can a person be trained to develop such skills? The right way to approach such issues would be to understand a bit of history and scrutinize leadership styles and traits of people who have made a mark in this world. We have seen through the biographies of several world leaders that many of them were initially shy and reticent by nature but firm in their decisions and assertive in the implementation of such decisions. Each leader has his own way of leading people ultimately persuading them to think the way he does. Incidentally, leadership is not restricted to authority, designation or power of the chair. Leadership traits can be evident even in the smallest fry in the department – who is willing to take on responsibility, who is committed and who has tremendous tenacity to see a job through till its completion. Be that as it may, analyzing the traits and styles of many historical as well as contemporary leaders one can surmise that while some leadership qualities can be innate, these skills need to be honed and fine-tuned further. This does not exclude people who were born without any visible leadership skills. Even such people can be a leader provided he has a strong determination and develops himself through a continuous process of self analysis, training and personal experience.
How does our institute train people to become future leaders and build the most efficient team in an organisation? Our training module is based on certain intrinsic beliefs about leadership traits which we train people to learn and adopt. The keystone of modern leadership style involves building a strong team within the organization – where individual ambition is given an opportunity to dovetail with corporate mission and vision. Team building is an important job of a successful leader where each and every member shares the same magnificent vision which the leader has. A thorough knowledge of individual strengths and weaknesses is another important skill of a leader which we help to develop. The way we look at it is that when a leader knows the core competence of his team, he can use the potential of his workforce to the fullest. Motivational and inspirational qualities are important for the leader to inject his team with renewed enthusiasm even in the face of failures or obstacles.
Our leadership and team building training takes an integrated approach where importance is given to areas including: recruiting and retaining the right people in the organization; rewarding as well as retribution skills; job allocation and rotation skills; harnessing talent to move in the right direction which is in line with organizational goals; development of core competence in every individual working in his team. If leadership is all about how well he manages to delegate responsibilities, we believe that it also includes his skills to build his successor. The sooner he does this successfully, the quicker is his personal growth.
How To Build Strong Muscles
In order to build a strong framework for your blueprint for living, you'll need to learn a thing or two about writing goals. Think of goals as the framework for your dream house or your dream life. You've decided to make changes in your life. You've spent some time reading, planning, and creating a blueprint for your new life. Now it's time for the framing. Think of framing as your goals.
Writing goals will give you direction. If you don't know where you're going, you probably won't end up where you want to be. If goals are not written, they are simply wishes.
Author unknown, "Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending."
Start Framing
You'll carefully follow your blueprint and add the 2x6 studs and the framing boards. That's how you build a house. In real life, this would be learning how to write and achieve goals. One of the most important considerations in constructing a house, is the framing. The whole structure will depend on the frame for structural integrity. Like wise, one of the most important considerations in designing a new life plan is written goals.
Write one goal for each of the life areas just like you'd frame each room of your house.
Goal areas include:
Health and Fitness
Recreation
Family
Spiritual
Educational
Social
Consider each goal a room in your blueprint. To frame it, you'll need to write goals that are
W A M W R:
W written - write a definite goal.
A attainable - do you believe you can attain it?
M measurable - is it measurable in dollars,or time
W workable - do you have the skills to do it?
R rewardable - what will you give yourself when you reach the goal?
For practice, write a goal for each of the eight areas.
Make them one week goals. Check them against the
W A M W R check list. Work toward the goals this week and at the end of the week you should give yourself eight nice rewards. Whenever you reach a goal, there must be a tangible reward. Every written goal must have a reward. Losing five pounds might call for a fudge sundae. I am kidding.
You'll see how easy it is to write and reach your goals with this process.
It's like passing your apprentice framer phase; after that you are a framer. When you see how easy it is to write and achieve short term goals you can start writing long term and short term goals. This is how you build the framework for your life blueprint. Get it right.
You may ask, "Why do I need to write my goals?"
Ask any successful person if they have written goals and you'll get a resounding, Yes.
Ask any success guru what's the first step to success and they will tell you it is a setting and writing goals. There is great power generated when you commit your goals to paper.
You send a message to the Universal Mind; a thought so powerful it must manifest in your life. Once a goal is committed to paper it is no longer a vapor, it has become real.
Trust those who've succeeded. They all set and wrote goals first.
Goals are absolutely necessary to:
Building a life Blueprint
Writing a Business plan
Success in sales
Success in living
Finding out what you want out of life.
People who write goals find they have direction and purpose in life. Try it. You're going to love it.
I guarantee it.
Henry Ford said, "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
Once you've experienced the high of attaining your goals, you'll never go back to living without them.
Summary
A good time to consider your goals is during your morning meditation and reading. Consider this, you're framing the bathroom and you discover the bathtub wall is too short. So you go to the blueprint and change the measurements. Then you frame in the correct dimensions. So it is with goals; they will need revisions. Revision is not a dirty word.
Goals must constantly be reevaluated. At the end of each day look at what you accomplished and make a plan for tomorrow. You should constantly look at your goals, revise and rewrite them. They should never become stagnate. Keep them alive, vital and working by constant examination and revision.
Anthony Robbins, "How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed too?"
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