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LEADERSHIP: STRENGTH IS LIVING AND WEAKNESS IS DYING.
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LEADERSHIP: STRENGTH IS LIVING AND WEAKNESS IS DYING.
“A
leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people
where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
Rosalynn Carter
It
is said that a leader should always keep evolving to be an effective
leader. Leaders are not born- they become leaders by making mistakes and
learning from them and thus evolving in life with every such
experience.
Such
experiences also teach a leader to accept the fact that every human
being evolves in life with a certain set of strengths and weaknesses.
Any individual is the product of his circumstances starting from where
he was born, how he was treated by his parents, the quality of schooling
he got, the kind friends he had while growing up in his formative years
etc.
Hence
when a person joins the leader as a member of his team as an employee,
he comes with certain strengths and weaknesses which may be inherent due
to his upbringing. The leader just does not have an option to choose a
person with set of only strengths(and no weaknesses) needed for his team
and the organization because such a person does not exist.
A
leader, who starts dealing with that employee with this understanding,
will always be more realistic in his approach while dealing him. His
leadership role demands that he should get the best out of that person
for the good of his team and the organization.
This
obvious necessity will initially necessitate him to focus on the
strength of the employee and make best use of his qualities rather than
concentrating on his weaknesses and keep on lamenting and reminding the
employee about them. If he treats the employee like this, he will
de-motivate him and a de-motivated person may not be successful in
giving his best to the organization. This surely will be failure of the
leader more than the failure of the employee.
Once
a leader understands this basic tenant of his Leadership role, he is
bound to take a more constructive approach by focusing on the employee’s
strength and disregarding his weaknesses at least initially.
Subsequently, once the comfort level is established in the relationship
between the leader and the employee, the leader may gradually discuss
employee’s weaknesses which have a negative impact on his work
performance, without giving an impression of criticizing him.
This
will surely ensure healthy inter-personnel relationship between the
leader and the employee in the long run. Having established such
relationship, the leader can easily guide the employee to set his goals
in consonance with the goal of the organization.
This
approach will ensure that the employee is an asset to the organization
and may even exceed the organizational goals. He may chart the path
which he wants to but also the path which he ought to, in terms of the
vision of the organization.
This surely will be illustration of trait of a great leader!!
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Article Tags: 2010, April 16th, Author Dr Shailesh Thaker
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