Leadership is Self-Assurance

Leadership is self-assurance in your abilities and character to lead others!  Self-assured leaders lead with integrity.  They choose to lead others in a manner that reflects a part of their leadership qualities.  Self-assured great leaders are those who:

• Exuberant confidence;
• Build trust;
• Reflect character;
• Are motivated, and
• Act through engagement.

Being a self-assured leader has many positives, but overconfidence in one’s abilities should not be one.  Having too much confidence can lead to:

• Inability;
• Ineffectiveness;
• Stunted leadership development;
• Misled judgment; and
• Lost respect.

Self-assured leaders can find many opportunities to lead others, but must ensure they remain humble.  Performing periodic checks of leadership development should include assessing one’s self-assurance.  Look at how others perceive your confidence in your abilities.  This will help to ensure optimal growth without becoming overconfident in your abilities to lead others! Find out more with our leadership training at bleadersedge.com. Thanks.

Mike

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Conviction

Influential leaders must have strong conviction.  Leaders face various challenges and make decisions that impact their leadership perception, team members’ leadership influence, and the organization’s alignment with the vision and mission.  Examples may include:

• Communicating;
• Deciding;
• Delegating;
• Embracing Failures; and
• Managing risks.

These are just a few examples, as there are many more that leaders will need to have strong conviction to overcome obstacles while also making strong, informed decisions.  Leaders can also consider various aspects of situations to identify when conviction must increase.  Some may include:

• Fear;
• Uncertainty;
• Lack of information;
• Risks;
• Time limitations; and
• Quality issues.

Influential leadership with strong conviction will identify these aspects in advance to not only address issues with strength but also persevere over time to gain leadership following.  Thanks.

Mike

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Leadership is Vision

Leaders are challenged to influence team members in today’s complex organizations.  With excellent diversity creating communication challenges along with generational gaps, leaders are challenged to influence team members.  But what is the leader trying to accomplish?  Leaders should visit the corporate or organizational vision.  The vision is always the guiding force for any organizational change that involves team members from across the organization. 

Leaders should keep the vision close and align short and long-term goals with it to ensure that organizational change aligns with the vision.  By constantly sharing the organizational vision, following it, and aligning goals to it, leaders can help team members adjust and adapt to a common shared path.  When leaders can get team members aligned to the leadership vision, it can create a great synergy for positive success.

Leaders can consider the following as an option to help align teams to the vision:

Vision > Strategy > Objectives/Goals > Plan > Execution > Reflection/Lessons Learned.

Having a process in place helps leaders drive organizational change towards the vision.  This can be very critical to ensure change is aligned to vision.  This provides a strong foundation for leadership principles.  Thanks.

Mike

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