A leader in an organization has to possess a number of qualities for effective results on continual basis. But one of the most important attributes of a leader is his ability to empower his employees unselfishly, unpossessively to exercise their skills on the job, make mistakes and learn from them for future improvements in their work.

A good leader, by definition, is not one who has not made any leader in life. He is a person who has invariably made leader and shape them to meet new challenges in the organization.

If one applies this concept in an organizational context, any leader, howsoever great leader he may be, simply cannot bring effectiveness at all levels across the organization without adopting the principle of delegation of responsibilities with authority to his employees. To achieve that, he has to identify right kind of persons within the organization and consciously decide to groom them as leaders.

To serve this purpose, he has to entrust such employees with responsibilities which, in normal course the leader himself would have shouldered. Along with the responsibilities, he also has to give expressed authority to experiment his ideas in his functional area, let him make mistakes, counsel him to avoid such mistakes in future and leave the matter at that.This process may look very irksome and time consuming to implement. Nevertheless, any organization which believes in long term ‘succession planning’ simply cannot do without undergoing this process.

Another facet of this situation, which is equally essential, is the ‘job satisfaction’ of every employee at the end of the day. For an organization to prosper, every employee needs to feel happy at the end of the day having accomplished something substantial during the given time. Irrespective of the quantum of remuneration he receives, he will go home feeling incomplete at the core of his heart without the feeling of his work well done. This surely is not a healthy sign for future of any organization.

The top rung of leaders in any organization must have the attitude of imparting their skills and knowledge to the persons working under their wings. They should also be given enough opportunities for their professional growth and also encourage them to make mistakes in the process. This exercise if done with right kind of persons over a period of time, shall definitely give the organization exceptional leaders who could enable the organization to achieve greater heights with the young crop of employees with great leadership qualities.

Needless to add, this should also give the senior leader the satisfaction of having created a no. of leaders in the organization who would continue his legacy of effective and result-oriented management of the organization.

And no amount of financial compensation can beat this great feeling at the end of one’s career in an organization!!!