101 Leadership
There’s a difference between being the guy in charge and being a true leader. There are those who are born with the charisma to lead. For the rest of us, we have to learn. Here’s some advice for making the leap from being in charge to leading.
Find some self-confidence. A leader is nothing if she doesn’t portray a sense of confidence, says Francisco Dao in an article at Inc.com.
“Trying to teach leadership without first building confidence is like building a house on a foundation of sand,” Dao writes. The leadership training and development community has been too focused on “passion, communication and empowerment,” and they’ve completely ignored the basic element of confidence.
Motivate, don’t manipulate. It can be easy to get motivation and manipulation confused. But good leaders do more of the former and less of the latter, according to Zig Ziglar on the website www. BusinessLeadershipAdvice.com.
“Eisenhower said that leadership was the ability to persuade someone to do what you wanted them to do because they wanted to do it. When that happens, performance improves, productivity increases, and both parties win. Comparing motivation to manipulation is like comparing kindness to deceit. The difference is the intent of the person,” Ziglar writes.
Have some fun. Anyone can notice inefficiencies and get angry about them, says Marshall Goldsmith on his blog at HBR.org. But “real leaders,” he goes on to say, “are people who can make things better.”
“Think about your own behavior at work. Are you communicating a sense of joy and enthusiasm to the people around you — or are you spending too much time in the role of angry, judgmental critic?” Goldsmith asks.
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