Enhance Your Leadership Skills

Leadership is what? Its a skill or value motivating people around you for a common goal, keeping them happy and achieving good things on best time. Who is Leader? Leader is the person who knows their team members very closely, knows about their benefits, knows about what makes them happy, knows what makes them unhappy, knows when to take hard decisions, knows always best time is to achieve things.

I am here today to discuss and giving my opinion about best leaderships. It does not mean that i am already a best leader, no, i am not. But i know the things how to reach that level and trying to be there. Anyway, in my opinion some big things which every leader must keep in mind when leading a team and wanted to get success:

1) Your Team: Yes, your team, your members are your power, without team there is no sense to be a leader. Always keep your team members benefits and their happiness on top priority. Go to them, talk to them, make them laugh, listen their problems, try to fix their issues. You must have heard about Great Ashoka, who used to go out in disguises always in night to know about his people issues, and their feelings about the kingdom. So be very frank with your team. Remember if they are avoiding to tell you any problems, means there is some issues with your leadership.

2) Be good listener, Influence Speaker: A good leader always have great patience. He always listen his team members, he listen them very carefully. He thinks more and deeply. He speaks less, but whenever he speaks, he influence people. People like to listen their leader. History has great example about great leaders has this thing, Swami Vivekanad, Allama Iqbal, Nepolean, Hitlor. So speak like that people enjoy you, follow you, and want to do whatever you say.

3) Be cool, have patience: Its very important thing for a successful leader, he must be cool mind. He must not take any impulsive decisions based on anger or impatience way. One should control his anger. Be cool, think cool. Sometimes you don’t get good results from your team members on time or they may have messed up things, that time you need to take decisions and behave with cool mind. Even, you must go to them and keep them normal like " this happens", "don’t worry we will do again", "never mind me also did once this mistake" etc etc. The best leader always comes in my mind with this example is Mahatma Gandhi. He was really cool and have great patience which makes him Great Leader for all time.

4) Be on earth, you are not GOD: Its a common problem with success, if you keep getting success with your leadership, one time comes when you may feel that there is nobody like you, you have done all this, you are really brilliant and you can do anything with any team bla bla bla. If this thinking comes in your mind then its true that your time is now over and your golden days are over for leadership. You must have heard "Vinaash kaale, vipreet buddhi". So, be always on earth, between your people. Yes, you are a good leader, but you are not everything. Don’t behave egoistic. Be simple. Many great leaders followed this rules like Mahatma Gandhi, Ravindranath Taigore, Vivekanand, Narayan Murthi, Dheeroobhai Ambani etc.

5) Be loveable, be ideal: You must keep working on your behaviour, your talking way, your thinking, your values etc. So that people love you, people want to see you as their ideal person. This is not easy, it really needs your work hard and makes you best person also. I remember one Sher ont this:

"Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle

Khuda bande se ye poche bata teri raza kia hai"

6) Your Values, your skills: A good leader always has great values, that’s why people choose him to be a leader. Value can be anything which gives you strength and people have faith in that for you. Like if you are technical leader, then you must have sound knowledge about what you leading people. If you are a Religious Leader, then you must have very deep knowledge about that religion. If you are a Military Leader, then you must have great knowledge about military/defense things. So, the bottom-line is that leadership goes well, when you keep your values, skills some ahead of your members.

There are many more things which needs you to be a good leader, i just given some high level thoughts. Try to work on the above points and you will feel changes in yourself and in your leadership also.

Thanks

Aslam Bari