How to be a Great Leader?

What makes a great leader in the office?  Does a great leader mean that he pre­vails and gets you out of the reces­sion?  Does a great leader mean that he is able to make tons and tons of prof­its (like those from Wall Street)?  Does a great leader mean that fair and jus­tice is given to all employ­ees?  Or is it being firm and know­ing what to achieve in the longer run for all employ­ees?  We have five ways you will need to be a great leader.  Read more to find out!

1. Have a vision for your team and organ­i­sa­tion – You know what is best for your team.  You should know what your team will become or what you like the team to become in the next 2 – 5 years.  You want to get there.  You know the objec­tive and out­come of what you are doing.  You know the mis­sion state­ment of the team.  You know how the team should func­tion.  It can be an overview pic­ture but that is suf­fi­cient for you.
2. Influ­ence your vision on your team and organ­i­sa­tion – The next thing you want to do is to influ­ence this strong vision that you have to your team mem­bers.  You want them to feel (at least) you.  You want them to know what’s going on and how to get to the objec­tive together as a team.
3. Lead by exam­ple – If you want to con­vince your team mem­bers to fol­low you, you’ve got to lead by exam­ple and show them that things can be done.  You want to make them feel that you are with them through­out the task giv­ing them sup­port too!
4. Stick with your prin­ci­ples no mat­ter what – What­ever cir­cum­stances and sit­u­a­tions you reach, you have to stick with your guid­ing prin­ci­ple.  Your team mem­ber will assess you if you have the integrity to stick with your prin­ci­ples.  If you do not, they loose trust in you that you do not have a guid­ing prin­ci­ple to work on.  Do not give in to exter­nal threats
5. Hon­our what you say – Hon­our all the com­mit­ments and promises you made to your team mem­bers.  A bro­ken promise you made before will only pull you away from being a hon­ourable leader in the eyes of your team mem­bers.  Your team mem­bers will be depend­ing on how you hon­our your promises make.  This is the trust they have in you.  If you are unable to hon­our what you com­mit­ted, you are break­ing that trust from them.
6. Be firm and not aggres­sive – Be firm with what you want to achieve.  How­ever, avoid being aggres­sive.  Your team mem­bers will not want to work under a tyrant boss.  There are var­i­ous ways to be firm and influ­ence your team mem­bers to get the work done.  But def­i­nitely, the use of aggres­sion shall be left to the last few alternatives.

How do you define a great leader then?  Are you trou­bled of find­ing ways to become one?  Or are you work­ing under a leader that doesn’t have lead­er­ship qual­ity instead?  Maybe he is a man­ager not a leader?  Tell us more!

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