LEADERSHIP

Good leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience. To inspire your workers into higher levels of teamwork, there are certain things you must be, know, and, do. These do not come naturally, but are acquired through continual work and study. Good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills; they are NOT resting on their laurels.

Although your position as a manager, supervisor, lead, etc. gives you the authority to accomplish certain tasks and objectives in the organization, this power does not make you a leader...it simply makes you the boss.

What IsLeadership

• Leadership is a process of getting things done through people.
• Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Leaders carry out this process by applying their leadership attributes, such as beliefs, values, ethics, character, knowledge, and skills.
• Leadership differs in that it makes the followers want to achieve high goals, rather than simply bossing people around.
• Leadership is not a science. So being a leader is an adventure because you can never be sure whether you will reach your goal
• Leadership means responsibility. It's adventure and often fun, but it always means responsibility. The leader is the guy the others look to, to get the job done.
• One of the keys to leadership is an explorer of the human mind because now you are going to try to learn how to get things done through people.
• Leadership is a gift. If you are born with it, you can lead. If you are not, you can't. Some people will tell you that. Some really believe it. But it's not so.
• Leadership does take skill. Not everyone can learn all the skills of leadership as well as anyone else. But most people can learn some of them -- and thus develop their own potential.
• Most people are not born with leadership. But people were born with a brain. If you can learn to swim or play checkers or do math, you can learn leadership skills.