Follow These 9 Tips To Become A Great Leader

Research clearly shows that positive, inspiring, and empowering leaders always turn out to be great leaders. They are valued more by their team, and they create great performing teams as a result. A study by the Center for Creative Leadership, according to Skye Schooley, showed that roughly 38% to more than half of new leaders fail within their first 18 months.

Leaders can avoid becoming part of this staggering statistic by incorporating good leadership strategies that motivate and inspire their team members to accomplish their goals. Consider these ten tips because employees who work under great leaders tend to be happier, more productive, and more connected to their organization – and this has a ripple effect that reaches your business's bottom line.

Lead By Example

 If you’re in a leadership position, you have a responsibility to your team to lead by example. No matter what the situation is, you have that responsibility.

Encourage Others To Grow

The most effective businesses today encourages every employee to take on leadership roles.  When employees become leaders, decisions are made more quickly; customers are happier, and tremendous amounts of time, energy, and money can be saved. Not only will this take some burden off your shoulders as the CEO or manager, but your employees will be happier, the gossipers will be significantly reduced, and your employees will be more engaged and effective.

Have a Strong Vision

Visionary leaders and great innovators follow that feeling in their hearts, create what does not yet exist, and see the way forward while the world reacts. They see something no one else can’t see, and most importantly, they feel it in their heart and boldly go after it until their vision comes to fruition. 

Keep Developing Yourself

Successful leaders keep their minds open to new things because they know that no matter how high their level of mastery, there's always more to discover. Learning is the key to growth, and leaders who understand the purpose of continuous development raise the tide of everyone around them.

Learn From Your Mistakes

Great leaders take responsibility for EVERYTHING. They turn each misstep into an opportunity to learn instead of pointing figures, according to Ron Gibori. They pull the thumb and ask themselves, "what could I have done differently?" They find a lesson while others only see a problem. They privately address mistakes from their team but take the blame publicly without dissent. If someone slipped up, they pick them up; they don't point the finger and pass the blame. When you lead a group of people, they become reflections of yourself, and when you are humble enough to admit your mistakes, it reinforces the habit of others to do the same.

Find Your Passion

Inspirational leaders are incredibly passionate people that move beyond the reality of limited thinking. When working with someone who has a passion for their work, the feeling is so contagious; it makes you believe you can achieve anything.

Keep A Positive Attitude

When times get rough, when things seem like it's falling apart, when you are about to let fear consume you, when you are pursuing your dreams, and it starts to get challenging, when you are about to give up; you must tell yourself, no matter how hard it is or how hard it gets; I'm Going To Make It. When you have a positive attitude, it automatically permits other people to do the same.

Become Inspirational

Inspiration creates the highest engagement levels. It separates the best leaders from everyone else, and it is what employees want most in their leaders. The power of a company with leaders who inspire at every level up and down the organization is hard to overstate. These companies consistently pull off innovative or heroic feats in business because so many of the people who work there are motivated and inspired to make them happen.

Empathy

Leadership is all about people and relationships. Whether you’re the leader of a small team, the manager of a large retail store, or the CEO of a global corporation, your people make your organization successful. Empathy is a vital part of emotional intelligence that several researchers believe is critical to being an effective leader.

True leadership is all about people and inspiring people to believe that the impossible is possible; when leaders can inspire a group of people to perform beyond their normal limitation, great things will happen, and as a result, you can now make a difference in the lives of your team, your community, your country and by extension the world.

About The Author

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Inspiration creates the highest levels of engagement, it is what separates the best leaders from everyone else, and it is what employees want most in their leaders. The Inspirational Leader, Inspire Your Team To Believe In The Impossible was written to help all leaders successfully navigate all the disruptions in today fiercely competitive world we need a new generation of leaders who care deeply for the well-being of their team and who understand that their people are the heart of their leadership. Each chapter in this book will push you to become the leader you were destined to be; a leader of influence, a leader of value, a leader of vision, and most importantly, an inspirational leader. 

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