Great Leaders Genuinely Care About Everyone On Their Team

In my early days as a leader, according to Amy Modglin, I honestly believe that leadership was all about me. I thought because of my title; everyone would follow me and respect me. I didn’t think leadership was something I needed to work hard at. I had already arrived. Luckily for Amy, she had a few great leaders who cared for her and confronted her selfish attitude.

This is something that continues to boggle my mind, and I am always left dumbfounded by companies who consistently recruit and promote people without any form of leadership mentoring, coaching, or training. Everyone can be a leader, but many people don’t want to do the work required to become leaders. It’s easy to bark out orders, boss people around, use your authority to get people to work, threatened people with termination if people are not performing. 

It takes work to coach, mentor, motivates, and inspire people to produce their very best work. It has nothing to do with using force or manipulation. It's all about treating people with respect and creating an environment that will allow everyone to become the very best version of themselves.   

As a leader, you must view your people as your biggest success, according to Amy. Great leaders support those around them. Your focus should be on developing your people, helping them succeed, and watching them grow into the people they want to become. When your people are successful, it is a reflection on you as a leader. Work hard on your people because your team is your organization's biggest and best resource. Without them, you are nothing as a leader.

Amazingly, many people in management and leadership positions will create an environment of fear to get their people to work. I don’t understand it; all the research in the world has proven that fear-based leadership or management does not work; it may be in the short term, but the quality of work will be average at best and is never sustainable in the long run.

You have to be very careful about the people who call themselves leaders, especially those with Pseudo - Leadership tendencies. Many of these people are only concerned about their well being, nothing else. Fearful employees stick around in these environments because they get so institutionalized they believe every company has the same management or culture. It’s typical for a manager and their employees to engage in gossip, typical for their manager to shout at their staff, work in a constant state of fear, and routinely hide from their manager if something goes wrong. This is crazy.

As Army indicates in her article Leadership: It's Not About You; Leadership is both a gift and a privilege. You can erode the cohesion of your team if you fail to value them. Everyone on the team deserves to be valued. Each one of them performs an essential part to keep the engine of your company running. When you can put your people’s needs and interests before your own, you will be a more successful leader.

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