101: Leadership
Workers often find themselves in leadership roles without any sort of training. While your undergraduate degree may have prepared you to compile a balance sheet or write a memo, few academic programs focus on how to stand up among a crowd and lead a group toward greater achievement.
Below is a collection of advice for those looking to improve their leadership skills.
Leading v. Managing. Many people who are promoted to senior-level positions within a company assume that they have the skills to both manage and lead. But that’s often not the case. And the two skills of management and leadership are distinctly different.
Management, according to an article by Hilary Owen for USAToday.com, is “based on order and control.” However, leadership “is about expressing the human spirit — the real source of greatness.”
Self-image counts. Your opinion of yourself may not seem like an obvious contributor to your success as a leader, but it does make a difference.
“How you feel about yourself often leads to subconscious patterns,” writes an author at Leadership-and-Motivation-Training.com. “Those with a negative self-worth may have many other leadership qualities, but sabotage their own efforts with a deep belief that they aren’t good enough to carry the day.”
Be accountable. To successfully lead an organization, you need people to feel that they are accountable for their actions — both the triumphs and the failures. But accountability starts at the top.
“Being accountable is about figuring out how you can make things better,” writes Kevin Eikenberry on the website SideRoad.com. “Other people’s actions aren’t in your control, and many events aren’t in your control either, but your response to these situations and events is completely in your control. You can choose to be 100-percent accountable and responsible for your response.”
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