Leadership Unmasked: Navigating Beyond Titles and Inspiring Tomorrow’s Leaders
You lead people and you manage things. Leadership inspires leadership.
Why do you take so many breaks?
What were you doing the rest of the time if this report took you only an hour to complete?
I can see the work done, but Where is your work log?
A leader does not ask such rhetorical questions.
Leaders ask important questions and genuinely believe in finding answers for them with the team.
I only worked once in a “corporate-style” environment. I don’t mention it in my CV and otherwise.
Like I have deleted it from my career and work history.
Although I acknowledge that I worked with that organisation, met wonderful people and made amazing friends.
I had no problem with the people whom I work with.
But there is a lot to unpack about the people whom I worked for. The leadership.
I am not going to bitch about my bosses or call their names, but there are a few things that I learned about leadership which are worth sharing.
Moreover, it is less about how a leader is and more about how he is not.
Outside my short-lived corporate life, I have encountered leadership in my 19 years of business life.
While I choose not to dwell on the specifics of my corporate experience, there are invaluable lessons about leadership that merit exploration.
Silent Presence:
Leaders often have a silent presence in the project or a job.
They do their thing while focusing on the team. They make sure everybody is on the same page.
They guide where required, regardless of their title and position in the company.
They step back and know where to stop pushing when everything is going well.
Most importantly, they believe in getting the work done, rather than putting energy into proving that work is getting done.
In short, they only see it when the assigned task is finished, without asking “Why do you take so many breaks?”
Inspiring Leadership:
Leadership is more than managing. Be it people or a task.
I mean, don’t leaders have better things to do?
Leaders inspire others to lead. They are master of creating a ripple effect within the organisation.
A leader inspires the emergence of others creating a harmonious cycle of growth and development.
Seeing the unseen:
The job of a leader is to see what people in the team are not able to perceive.
This is large because teams are working on the micro-tasks within the job.
A leader not only has a sense of larger perspective but also has the ability to instil the vision within the team.
The awareness and sense of a higher purpose reassure the teammate that what he/she is doing matters.
He/she is working on a part of a larger puzzle, which has a deep impact.
These are the facets of leadership that inspire growth, foster collaboration, and cultivate the leaders of tomorrow.
A leader has an evergreen influence.
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