What does it take to become a leader that others want to follow?
- Is it drive / motivation?
- Is it confidence?
- Is it a clear purpose of what you want to do and where you want to take your team / business?
- Is it the ability to coach and train a team?
- Is it the ability to be be selfless and put your team’s welfare above your yours?
- Is it discipline and will?
- Is it empathy and understanding of people’s needs?
- Is it the ability to work with a wide variety of people and work out how to get the best out of them?
- It is the experience to know what to say and when to say it?
- Is it the experience to know what to do and when to do it?
- Is it keeping people safe, happy and motivated?
- Is it being a role model – both in how you speak and how you behave?
- Is it a desire to learn more and be more?
- Is it being ‘real and authentic’ for your team?
- Is it about building and cultivating trust?
Truth is, it is about all of these things and more. Becoming a leader that others want to follow takes expertise, will, skill and persistence. It takes a desire to learn and willingness to be vulnerable.
The great thing is that these skills, behaviours and attitudes can be taught and learnt, experienced and practiced.
? What do you need to do today to be a leader that others will follow? What do you need to start doing? Stop doing? Do more of? Do less of?
Take a moment to consider your response – then put it into action. It could be the very first step you take to have others follow yours……
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