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Leadership Skills and Ability
What is true Leadership. Is leadership something we are born with or is it learned. My belief is that there are some natural leaders but manyleadership skills are learned by hands on experience. Many great leaders show leadership skills while at schoolor at a young age but few of these children will go straight into a leadership role on leaving school. Lets define traits and skills associated with great leaders.( not necessarily in this order) supportive innovative sensitive decisive tireless honest mentor available persistent experience considerate ready to listen lead by example apologize for mistakes good at delegating tasks good time management skills. keep level head under pressure. look at and weigh up all options equally. peace maker, looking at both sides of arguments. God has blessed you with many of these traits, continue to use them and to learn form your experiences and here is the biggie, learn from others around you and read books relating to leadership, mentoring, management, and other relevant material. Every day you and I play a leadership role as a parent, teacher,boss, at the office, team leader, Sunday school teacher, sports captain, or running your own small business. Every one of us play a leadership role at some time. As you build up your skill level and your planning ability otherpeople around you will notice. You will be a member in some group or other either in your children's sports team or business and others will notice if you take control, sometimes just by offering to bake for a fundraiser and collecting cakes from the other mothersis showing leadership. You may love being a helper and because of your happy butorganized attitude others will look to for guidance. This isdisplaying leadership, you may not want to be the chairperson of the fundraising committee but you may be the leader bydefault in that others look to you for guidance and accept your suggestions. On numerous occasions I have seen chairpersons on committeesand sports groups for one reason only. They want to be seen tobe the leader and want the publicity and lime light. True leadership doesn't always get noticed or receive the recognitionor the appreciation it deserves. Many a leader has appeared from the most unexpected quartersand in times of the greatest need, the greatest leaders are born. Many of the Great leaders of the past have become leaders intimes of the greatest need or times of upheaval. Leaders likeAbraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, These and many other leaders would probably not have the same Hero status if it wasn't for the time of trial they lead their companies, countries or people through. But do not compare Abraham Lincoln with Elvis Presley.Elvis was a leading figure in music even the King of Rockn Roll but I would not class him as a great leader. There is a difference between having a following and beinga leader. Abraham Lincoln said 'You can please some of the people some of the time, but you will never please all the people all the time.' That is the great difference between a Leaderand a Dictator. In the Gettysburg Address Lincoln said,Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. In theory what Lincoln said is correct but in practice somepeople are more equal than others, we may all have the same rights, but we may be disadvantaged by being born in thewrong neighborhood or the wrong color. Many disadvantaged people make a choice or decision thatthey will succeed and usually they go on to leadership roles. There are people a lot worse off than you or me but if they apply their will to change and totally focus on bettering themselves they may get that promotion before you or may even take overyour company and I'll bet they have many of the traits and skills in the list above and they would most likely have to have learned many of those skills. If there is a will there is a way! May you become a Successful Leader. PETER GREEN. Editor of ~ The INDEX ~ ezine. Editor@Internet-income-index.com http://www.Internet-Income-Index.com Your Free Weekly Internet Marketing News, Ideas, Resources and Sources Ezine.
Leadership is best defined by the quality of your thoughts, decisions and actions. It is also underpinned by the quality of the tools you use in your role. Be seen to bring true leadership to your organization and act with the authority that it brings to you.
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