Friday 16 June 2017

How to be an inspiring leader.



If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more –You are a leader.”
-JOHN QUINCY ADAM

A leader is indubitably the most pivotal link in any organization, the one who coalesces various discrete departments to collaborate together. Visions don’t beget leaders but leaders do create them. The part and parcel of any defined structure is the paramount vanguard which will lead the institution to accomplish victory and veritably there is no doubt that having no leader at all is better than having an insipid leader. Having no leadership will corroborate defeats but having a vapid leader summons catastrophes too.
In this cut-throat competition, a strong leader is a sine qua non. Any institution that wants to conquer this competition ought to have a robust leadership and an inspiring leadership is hence, certainly indispensable.

So, how can you be an inspiring leader? Though the process is not that much of a cake walk; but, it is not impossible either. Here are two step which can guide to engender in yourself, the requisite charisma needed out of a stimulating leader.

1. WHO IS A LEADER?   - The first shot that you can have at solving anything is to understand the thing! A leader is not an esoteric person who is immaculate, exceptionally proficient in everything he does; a leader is also not the one who talks in the language of assignments and deadlines; but in fact, a leader is simply a person who inspires action.  Leadership is not some elusive quality; it is just the courage to inspire others to find the latent leader in themselves. Wolf of Wall Street expounds the vitality of an inspiring leader. Jordan Belfort(Leonardo DiCaprio) just comes in and evokes action out of a dull set of employees and just through the powers of his inspiration, these people go on to play one of the biggest Ponzi games in the world.
 Leaving out the treacherous conclusion of his inspiration, we can actually infer that inspiration can indeed move mountains, and to get some incredible results out of your employees, you have to be inspiring. Hence, a leader is none but a “motivational creature”.
Great leaders are products of necessity and opportunity. Nobody needs inspiration in serenity, we demand leaders when we are walloped into pandemonium and hence leadership is all about taking responsibility when others are making excuses. Napolean Bonaparte has correctly quoted, “A leader is a dealer in hope.”  When turmoil is around, the pretentious ones will step aside and a veracious leader will rise to the helm. 


2.  HOW TO INSPIRE? : The first step might have seemed pretty simple; so, here is your cup of tea- the formidable path.

Famous leadership programs author John C Maxwell has given his criterion for the true quality of a leader by saying: Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough to motivate them.

The first step to perform well as per Maxwell’s rubric is to strike the right chord with them, to find a shared ground and to make them feel that you care about them. You must condescend to their level and listen to their problems, in order to unravel what’s troubling your employees. No good organization can go on to achieve “bigger” aims if it continues to be deaf to the “smaller” problems of its employees.

Next, comes the most crucial part of Maxwell’s statement – “to be far enough to motivate them”.  Since you want to distinguish yourself as a leader, you must have a limpid vision over how to extirpate the problems in your workplace. Once you have deigned to the level of your followers/ employees, use your intuition to find the optimum solution. People look up to a leader because he/she can allocate them with remedies to their problems; once you understand their problems, you have to look out for exacting cures. Don’t bludge away with excuses; instead, be honest and work for them.  Use your understanding to come up with novel plans to obliterate various nagging issues. Start from the scratch and then go on to annihilate the problems engulfing your workplace. Here your experience will come in handy (remember you need to be far ahead). When you creatively look for ingenious solutions and put things into action; you will indeed inspire leadership in your office/ area etc. A true leader inspires by action and not by abysmal hyperbole. Inspire your people not to work half-heartedly for their job but to work full-heartedly for you.
Jeff Bezos, founder-CEO of Amazon says, “Believe that your company is a successful one when your employees feel proud to be referred to as its employees.” People working in Google and Microsoft do feel proud to mention that they are working at these dot coms not just because they are big names in the market but because of the great overall atmosphere that these companies present, the milieu which these companies render to their employees is the biggest reason behind the success of these tech giants and hence a leader must understand how to create the perfect setting for his work and this, in fact, motivates people to forego the worry of projects and deadlines, and  indeed work for their leader.


Set precedents for others to emulate and this will in itself motivate people to action.

Follow these two not-so-simple steps to tread on a journey not-so-simple to be forgotten.
 JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI


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