Leadership

If you are to own a great business that is growing and profitable and a place to work that attracts the best of the best, it will take leadership in a high order. But what exactly, is "leadership?"

People ascribe leadership to those men and women who they feel can most enable them to achieve important goals and objectives. I think the key word in that statement is "enable."

Some leaders think that leading people simply means marching ahead and hoping their underlings have the guts to follow. Some try pushing instead of leading. Others threaten by trying to lead by intimidation. The real leaders, however, are the ones who build trust in their teams and have the power to enable them to gain the knowledge and tools needed to achieve their personal goals.

Good leaders do not set goals for their people, but because they encourage them, the people want to set goals for themselves.

It just makes common sense that an individual would rather work on their own personal goals than the goals set by others. The trick is to encourage them not only to set goals, but to creat plans of action to achieve them, and then to praise them on their successes no matter how small, and ecourage them if they fail from time to time. Real leaders lead, enable, encourage and praise success.

Are you a leader?