The leader leads his people towards the goal. He is the person who can get his people to follow him. He is the one who is looked up to, whose judgment is trusted, and who inspires the people working with him and for him. Good leader should be motivating, inspiring and able to manage people. Leader should be charismatic and being visionary and have ability to acting decisively. There is very complex opinion about leadership either can take it as based on personality and physical traits or based on prescribed behaviors. Leadership can define in terms of power relationship between leaders and followers. As good leaders, they must try to get employees to concentrate around common goal and should have creative vision and strategic plan for an organization. Decisiveness is very important characteristic because every leader has to be taking some difficult decision in job. They have to take decision Continue reading
Leadership Development
Effective Teaming Factors
There are obvious challenges to form and lead a functioning team, even if the team is collocate physically within a training room or office throughout the whole process of training. Moreover the training involves distant learning mode that individualistic or individual behavior towards the whole proceeding come into play that could affect the performance of the entire team. To lead a team has little understanding on the member’s background is an uphill task for the leader. Advanced communication technology will not guarantee the team is working except the individual that participate in the training stretch and contribute within the context of the training that makes this a successful training experience. Participants Background Assessments for Genuine Purpose Understanding the participant background is one of the crucial steps to form a team as if the participant can or will go through the process as required by the program. The participant need to Continue reading
Formal and Informal Leaders
Leadership as the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization. While it is a relatively short definition, it implies a lot of action. Look at the action words: influencing; purpose; direction; motivation; accomplish; improve. To define Leadership, means to take action, to get up and do something. It has been observed above that a manager should also be a good leader. But in actual practice, every manager is not able to provide the kind of leadership desired by his subordinates. This gives rise to informal leaders who do not hold any managerial post in the organization. A formal leader, on the other hand, is one who possesses organizational authority to direct and control the activities of his subordinates. He can issue orders and instructions to his subordinates by virtue of his formal authority in the organization. An informal leader is Continue reading