How to be a good leader

Leadership is defined as the action of leading a group of people or an organization. But is not easy to be a leader, a leader requieres a lot of skills and competences so he or she can be a leader to a group of people. To be a good leader there are many things you can work on but there are nine main point that are the bases so you can be a great leader. Learn from other leaders, work to build skills, believe you are a leader, take up tasks, share your ideas, listen to others, learn how to delegate and treat other leaders with respect.

First to be a good leader you have to learn from other leader. Look for a person who you can look up to, someone who inspires you to be a great leader, to do better every time you try something, once you find that person, learn from them, their failures and their achievements, see what they had done and how they had done it, but don’t only see it, ANLYZE IT, find your way to be a leader through the experience of others.

Work to build skills. If you want to be a good leader you have to know what you are doing, let me give you an example, imagine you are a football coach, and you want to take your team to the final championship, but the problem is you’ve never played football before, you won’t accomplish anything if you don’t know what you are doing. What can you do then? You work to build your skills, you learn how to play football first, you develop your skills first for yourself, so then you can lead others afterwards. You would never finish to learn, the more you learn and the more you work on new skills for yourself, the more your team will follow you and believe in you, because now you know what you are doing.

Believe you are a leader. You have to truly believe you are leader, if you believe that you are a leader the rest of your group will believe it too. It’s not enough for you to only believe you are a leader, you have to act like one too, act with confidence, have a good posture, believe it or not your body language says a lot about you, so if you want to be a good leader, stand up straight, don’t loose eye contact and if you want to look bigger and more powerful put your hands on your waist like a superhero. 

Take up tasks. Other words for this is have initiative, people always look up to persons who have initiative and like to challenge themselves. Even if it is the most simple task like sweep the floor, it would make a difference if you voluntarily sweep the floor that if you are asked to do it. If you are asked to do it, the person who told you to do it is the leader, but if you show initiative and you do it because you want to, other people will follow you and join you. Someone once told me, you have to know how to do from the most basic thing like sweep to a more complex task. My recommendation, take tasks even if you don’t want, some people will probably let you do it on your own but there are others who would follow you and respected you and those are the ones that matter.

Share your ideas. If you have an idea of how to do things better or simply how to do things don’t keep it for yourself, share that thought, a good leader has a voice and when he talks he is heard, don’t be afraid of people rejecting your idea, if they decline it, too bad, now you have to come up with another one but don’t be afraid of sharing your ideas.

Listen to other. Always listen what others have to say, their opinions, their ideas. That not only shows good leadership but also respect, and respect is fundamental when you are leader, if you respect other they will respect you. Back to the main idea of listening to others, encourage them to speak up, to share, built up your confidence and theirs, as people say “there are no bad ideas” or “is a bad idea only if it doesn’t work.” If you listen to others, you will learn from them as well as they will learn from you.

Learn how to delegate. This is a very important point. You can’t do all by yourself, you need your team to collaborate so you can achieve your goal. As a leader you have to learn how to delegate. If you don’t know what delegate means, it means to entrust a task or a responsibility to another person. So your job as a leader other than cooperate to the work, is to dived the work between the people you are working with.

Treat other leader with respect. When you meet or work with other leaders treat them with respect, but not only other leaders, all the people you work with deserve respect.

Thank you so much for reading this blog, I hope you like it and find it useful. Stay tuned for my next post.