Leadership Tips 2020

Leadership is responsibility and empowering others to perform at their best and enabling them to grow. Based on my experiences and awareness below are the points which anybody can reflect to evaluate whether they have leadership skills or not: Ready to Trust Others Ready to Empower others Being Empathetic Being a good listener Being a visionary Risk Taker Anybody can become an effective Leader with consistent and diligent efforts on the above-mentioned skills enhancements. The biggest challenge/drawback which any young leaders encounter is the lack of patience and listening skills. I would say, if someone is not a good listener then he/she can’t be a leader at all. During my early stage of career, got an opportunity to work with a Project Lead. After seeing my technical skills and overall capabilities, this lead has empowered me with complete authority on the project which includes handling entire team and customer also. This sort of trust and empowerment enabled me rethink on my cap

Reliability trait takes any leader to be a very strong effective Leader. Reliability is one of the biggest traits any team looks towards the leaders. When any leader is reliable the team trust and counts on him/her. Humility clubbed with reliability will be the biggest advantage which any Leader can showcase. Leaders always have authority and responsibility, but how they use these two attributes defines the team’s performance. Any team with strong reliable leader will be very effective, as it knows that the leader is going to take care of all aspects for them. Reliability sounds to be simple/easy to practice, but, it is tough. It involves leaders to be very consistent in the message/words which they convey to the team and always they must stand by their words/commitments. Most Leaders misunderstand the reliability and gets in biases towards the team which will demoralize the team and the collaboration and cohesiveness will be lacking. In Today’s Era, with ever changing technolo

Leadership clubbed with Empathy will results in Effective and successful Leadership. Having empathy towards the team and working with them establishes a strong relationship and which will result in a very strong cohesive unit being formed. There is a big misconception that, businesses and leaders shouldn’t be empathetic as it will result in losing the momentum and not meeting the timelines for the expected results. An Effective leader being empathetic, will immediately work on mitigation plan keeping the priority with each individual then the results will be achieved and at the same time the team will become a very strong cohesive and trustworthy which will go beyond their capabilities to make the leader a successful one. Effective leaders should always try to work towards Cognitive, emotional and compassionate empathy being established with the team. To master this art, the biggest trait which any empathetic leader should have is being an active listener and strong patience. My Si

Leadership is not an authority, but it is responsibility. Demanding Leadership is one of the Leadership styles which seems to be aggressive to achieve the desired results. Demanding Leaders work towards achieving the organizational goals with aggressive style and seems to be successful also. Demanding Leaders order and dictates their followers to accomplish their tasks and to be successful always. The team which works under these types of Leaders will always be order takers and accomplishes the results without any innovative or proactive approach/thought process. Earlier days, this sort of Leadership style used to work effectively as the teams used to take orders and perform the tasks. Current times this sort of Leadership style might not be appropriate, as the work force has become more effective and innovative. Considering the business needs and the rapid turnaround time expected, demanding leadership style is pretty much needed for many situations. Based on my experiences, I wou

One of the main traits of any effective or strong Leader is, how approachable he is. An approachable Leader with strong strategy and vision is a successful leader. Leader who creates the environment for his team to be approachable irrespective of all the challenges, issues or suggestions will be able to create a very strong cohesive team. Trust, passion and collaboration will be automatically established when the leader is approachable. Leader should always look at his team as an extended family and be ready to jump in and support any team member based on the need. Few of the advantages with having a leader approachable are: Team openly trusts and discusses the challenges/achievements Team will be more confident Team will be ready to go extra mile to achieve the best Strong Collaboration will be established which results in team success If any Leader can inculcate the above-mentioned habits within his team, then sky is the limit for the team to achieve. Leadership is not an aut

The alphabet “E” in the Leader represents the energetic charisma of a Leader which results in any team to get motivated and achieves results beyond capabilities irrespective of the challenges. The complete energy of the team is primarily driven by Energetic leader and who always thrives to shield the team from any obstacles. Leaders are compelled to take very strong/big decisions at many instances keeping the interest of the organization and it is the energy and transparency of leaders which motivates the team to move forward in achieving organizational goals. Leaders always should be dynamic and bubbling with energy to create the passion and energy levels across the board. Becoming an energetic leader is not that tough and based on my experiences with the following traits being practices any leader can be very effective leader, which will result in creating amazing successful team which can achieve any results: Passion Friendliness Trust & Honesty Confidence Empowering the tea

Leadership is not about authority and it is about responsibility and empowering others. Level-Headed Leader is someone who responds to the situation and not the one who reacts to the situation. If you observe, there is difference between responding and reacting. Level-Headed nature lies within these two words difference. Any leader to be a great leader has to be level-headed. Being level-headed is not that tough, it is just the approach any leader takes and how he implements. The words which are spoken by any leader being level headed should mean what he wanted to say instead of leaving for assumptions. Level-Headed Leaders control their emotions and don’t react to situations, instead they will analyze the situation by taking a pause and understand the bigger picture of the situation and then respond how to tackle it. Being calm and composed creates so much mental strength that, you can handle any situation and will come out with flying colors. The team always looks at their leader as

Leadership is always considered as authority or power which many people like to have and control and dictate things. Leadership is responsibility and capability to empower people to do the best and perform the best. In Corporate world, everybody aspires to be a leader but very few becomes a true leader. Indian IT sector has lot of great leaders, but still it needs lot more effective and strong leaders to make India a true global power. I have been working in corporate field for more than two decades and has seen lot of managers, leaders and bosses. Based on those experiences and lessons learnt, will try to share the leadership aspects and traits in my upcoming blogs… Trust is the first thing which any leader should practice and implement. Let us start trusting our fellow colleagues irrespective of the levels to create stronger and more matured India. I would define the Acronym of LEADER as below: L --- Level-Headed E --- Energetic A --- Approachable D --- Demanding E