Tips on how to be a good leader
A leader is a person
who directs the affairs of the people around him/her. The people around him/her
do not necessarily need to be the followers but can also be the people who look
up to you. Leadership they say is one of the most tasking responsibilities to
behold. The reason mainly is because you have to responsible and accountable
for the actions and inactions of the people around you. Well, I believe
leadership tasks can be made a little bit less tasking by adopting these little
techniques to be mentioned
Here are some tips;
Delegate responsibilities;
this means you don’t have to always “carry work on head”. You can just assign
some of your task to your followers to carry out. It helps a lot.
Trust your subordinates;
you have to be able to trust them unless you won’t be able to delegate responsibilities
to them. This is in fact one of the greatest challenge faced by leaders in this
part of the world. Trust is very important for you to thrive as a leader.
Communicate with them; many
leaders do not communicate their ides, goals and objectives with their followers.
This isn’t good enough. Speaking with them could be in form of encouraging them,
communicating your plans to them. The latter mentioned is very important for an
organization to move on and be profitable.
Respect your subordinates.
This is one vital thing that majority of leaders lack, they feel they are the ‘oga
at the top’ so they should be the only one to be respected. This is very wrong.
Respecting your subordinates/followers can go a long way to foster
relationships that will yield results.
Lastly, maintain a good
integrity.
And most importantly we
should remember that to be a good leader we must be a good follower. This salient
point mentioned would help those aspiring to be a leader someday
Watch out for the
qualities of a good leader. Coming soon!
