Being an effective leaders begins with you, being self aware, becoming conscious of life and the environment . Being aware of the impact you have on others. Knowing what really matters to you and what drives you . Behaving in alignment with your core purpose and values. Expressing yourself in an authentic way.
To the emerging leaders, great leaders throughout ages and history possessed some traits that actually distinguished them from the packs and ours is not going to be an exception except we follow through the created ancient landmarks.
1. Learning, growing and development.
Creative, innovative and charismatic leaders love learning, in the process of learning, they grow and the growing culminated to their development. Invariably they do and pass the same to their followers.
2. Appreciate and value diversity.
Human beings across the globe are created differently and if you are going to lead well and impact the people, you must recognize the diversities in the human formation and disposition. Appreciating and placing value on diversity will help any leader in any setting to achieve the peak performance and leave indelible impact behind.
3. Provide service to others without creating dependency and entitlements.
Leadership in Africa and in my country is centered around dependency. Helping people and turning them to slaves, the next generations of leaders must avoid that pitfall. Creating dependency and sense of entitlements have prevented our institutions, organization and society at large from braking the cycle of mediocrity and laziness.
4. Encourage and empower others.
Only few individuals who ascend the position of a leader actually understand this concept. If they do, our society and institutions would have been better than What we have at hand. We need now team of encouragers in leadership and those who empower people to do what is in their minds to and they are capable of doing but have no means and capacity to do it.
After we are able to get a team of encouragers, we need also influencers. According to the leadership expert, J. Maxwell, the apex function of leadership in the 21st century is INFLUENCE.
Today's success hinges on the ability to INFLUENCE people to achieve common goals and purposes. INFLUENCERS are the best leaders in the world history, then we must get it right that, influencing positively to do the right things is the best way to go.
The power to influence is PERSONAL. We must all decide today as parents to influence our children and ward positively, as teachers let us influence every pupils and students who will ever sit under our teaching and coaching. As preachers, you must influence your congregations positively to be example of what you teach and pass to them. As political actors, migrate from being an actor to player and influencers, you will influence so much if you refuse to take that bribe, falsified your age, and your academic qualifications, if you refuse to inflate the contract, if you refuse and say no to padding of budget, if you refuse to sleep around with your daughters mates because you have the money to throw around. As a media player or personnel, you will influence well and accurately if stop circulating falsehood and unconfirmed stories, stop all unnecessary propaganda. Information is the baseline for any transformed life and society, when you feed the people with right and accurate information, you serve well. The lists are endless, we can all make this world better than we met it.
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