The Benefits of Leadership
• Being a leader enables you to be effective and efficient in determining your company’s destination and creating a team that focuses on getting it there.
• Being a leader means defining and exhibiting moral and ethical courage and setting an example for everyone in the company. • Being a leader helps you teach leadership skills to your employees, who will then help do the “heavy lifting” of moving the company from where it is today to where it needs to be in the future.
• Being a leader enables you to recruit, hire, and promote employees who demonstrate leadership abilities.• Being a leader forces you to analyze your own strengths and weaknesses, as well as those of the company, and enables you to develop a good sense of reality.
• Being a leader helps you dictate appropriate employee conduct while, at the same time, preventing employees from being too tough, ruthless, or mean to other members of the staff.
• Being a leader helps you emphasize the value of the company’s customers, how they are treated, and the importance of their returning.
• Being a leader enables you to be effective and efficient in determining your company’s destination and creating a team that focuses on getting it there.
• Being a leader means defining and exhibiting moral and ethical courage and setting an example for everyone in the company. • Being a leader helps you teach leadership skills to your employees, who will then help do the “heavy lifting” of moving the company from where it is today to where it needs to be in the future.
• Being a leader enables you to recruit, hire, and promote employees who demonstrate leadership abilities.• Being a leader forces you to analyze your own strengths and weaknesses, as well as those of the company, and enables you to develop a good sense of reality.
• Being a leader helps you dictate appropriate employee conduct while, at the same time, preventing employees from being too tough, ruthless, or mean to other members of the staff.
• Being a leader helps you emphasize the value of the company’s customers, how they are treated, and the importance of their returning.
The Realities of Leadership
• Your company can meet the goals you establish only if you lead the way by motivating and encouraging your employees to become a coordinated team focused on the destination.
• When you are leading your company into a “New Frontier,” because neither you nor your employees have been there before, mistakes, miscues, and inexperience add to the challenge, and your leadership is key to meeting that challenge.
• You have to understand and be good enough at leadership to teach it to your employees, both by example and by coaching. The more leaders you can develop, the stronger the business will be, and the less you will have to worry about how the business is operating.
In exhibiting leadership, there are essentially three things you must accomplish if you hope to make the company a success. These three things don’t represent every facet of leadership, but they do form the foundation on which leadership is built and are an integral part of leadership at every level.
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