Institutional excellence is a result of exemplary leadership. This group is for those currently serving in leadership roles or those who aspire to lead. Group members engage in self-awareness and self-reflection, and discuss the leadership skills necessary to maximize performance outcomes. Members share best practices, ideas, thoughts, reflections, and resources to help colleagues across the globe.
This is a general discussion forum for the following learning topic:
How Do You Lead? --> How Do Leaders Do It?
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
How Do You Lead? --> Leadership Styles
How Do You Lead? --> Motivation to Lead
I learned the core leadership principles, focusing on leading by example, adapting my approach based on the situation, and balancing grace with accountability. Proper leadership emphasizes humility, transparency, and building mutual respect.
As a leader, I must be keenly aware of the learning styles of my followers and adapt the information delivery so that all members of the team can benefit.
Being stubborn and refusing to adapt to a situation can be a trait that will slow or stop team development.
Initially communicated the purpose of a task and each employees roles in accomplishing the goal and actualizing the vision. Frequent engagement of the team which necessitates feedback and suggestions will aggravate employees to feel valued and work harder, which will in turn produce and better product, higher standards in services and greater profits.
I find that leadership is very personal and the ability to connect to an employee on a personal and professional level is important to overall growth.
I have been reminded that you must lead by example and that leading is not easy.
The myths regarding managers stood out to me. While being a top performer in a role is advantageous to managing individuals in said role, it is important to note that additional skills such as people skills are needed for being a successful manager. It was also very interesting to recognize that only 10% of individuals possess the talent to manage. Connecting, seem to be the overarching theme here. Persons who are able to engage team members, help them gain knowledge and skills and maintain a culture of producing positive outcomes are among this esteemed 10%.
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