Leadership: working to be irrelevant
Why is leadership needed? If each individual could solve all problems by himself, leadership wouldn’t be necessary. The issue is that we are linked to organisations that have to face an endless number of challenges themselves. These often complex challenges are happening at an ever faster pace and demand to be addressed effectively and swiftly by co-workers. Leadership is needed to broaden teams’ reach and efficiency.
Leadership is often related to top management or any person in a role of authority. This perception is wrong. A leader can just be someone who takes the initiative of gathering a small group of people to pursue a common task in a timely and fit for purpose manner.
A good leader empowers the team through proper training, whilst fostering its autonomous problem-solving capabilities. He or she must understand the big picture of any challenge, being capable of transmitting it in a clear and supportive way.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
– Bill Gates
A leader is someone coordinating people, whose utmost task is to be forgotten by those he leads, turning his job as redundant as possible.
The way a given leadership performs depends heavily on the type of organisation where it takes place. Organisations today have to deal with an environment where requests and constraints evolve permanently. An effective response to this context can only arise in a workplace where employees are fully committed to their goals and have the flexibility to change course as needed.
Dynamic organisations that are willing to grow and expand to new horizons, being it markets or service quality, must rely on networks of people willing to move between tasks and fine-tune their programs. This dynamic is far more demanding than in traditional arrangements based on hierarchy and waterfall models. Capable leadership is pivotal to following this new path.
Leadership is not an innate trait and can be taught and perfected. Nobody is a real leader because he was awarded the title, but rather because he earned it.
Leadership capabilities are of utmost importance to upscale any career or business. But why would anyone on your team listen to you or build a bond of trust? How can you become a full-fledged leader? Our training program will allow you to move forward in the right direction.