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...

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...