Leadership has a different beginning these days and its amazing to watch emerging leaders from different areas making us surprise. Being an entrepreneur, I had been always getting new answers to leadership and let us understand why? Right from educational space to the emerging corporate corners, we see leaders creating a new benchmark and a story. A true leader often owns the most difficult phase for the team and makes it look easy as they pass through the same. We see classes being delivered on leadership, special courses and workshops to ignite the traits of leadership among every working and non-working class to lead from the front. But, I would differ to understand the exercise of being a leader which comes naturally with the circumstances we are exposed to in day to day basis.
Ability to estimate, calculate risk and following the actions without regret to meet the consequences defines the strategic form of being in the process to be a leader. Every leader has its own different story to narrate but it can only inspire. As someone rightly said, the determination to own a loss and follow your dreams brings the true essence of leadership. People often come with their critical issues and problems to a leader and someone who is approachable to define a road to the solution is a leader in making. A leader understand the pros and cons of its actions while going ahead with a positive mindset to motivate the team for a journey. We are often puppet in the hands of “copy pasted” gurus who impose one consequence to a certain specified action points. The world is slowly going through a cycle of innovations at every level and there is a “new” we see everyday in different unique achieved stories of leadership. A Leader has the art of saying “No” no matter who feels good or bad about it when it is serving a larger purpose with a positive outcome.
With the competitive market compelling a leader to stand out from the rest, expected to meet the desired outcome as well to be followed or respected. Humility, patience and ability to accommodate mistakes leads the team for a successful outcome or a successful message. We often miss out the race to be called a Leader for the “dictated values” and peer understanding as a protocol to win over every odds and circumstances. A Leader differentiates its action from the rest by following the right approach agreeing to risks at its place convincingly. There could be a more traditional approach in learning how workshops can help in the making of a leader which could rather be more justified with the ways we deal and face the circumstances as a face. We have several ways to collaborate in learning the true values of leadership making the political and economical sustainability for every entity a reality tomorrow despite what comes as an “odd”.
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”-Colin Powell
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