Leading Without Being Bossy





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We all do not like it when someone controls, dominates and overpowers us. Even if we do not like to lead, still we disfavor the feeling of being followers and usually that’s why most people don’t like their bosses. 

A good leader finds a way to influence employees to get what is needed and wanted. A good leader makes clients feel that they are along with their opinions as important factors of the organization as him/her, and they’re not just followers.

Feeling satisfied, needed and important always make us try to do the best. In an organization, when a leader success in leading employees without underestimating them or minimizing their importance, employees will give their best effort (huffingtonpost.com).

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 Here's a video explaining the power of Leading; what makes a good leader?

Question: How do you like your boss or leader to be?

Effective Leadership Requires Trust & Integrity

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There is a connection between integrity and trust, but trust has a wider meaning. Earning someone’s trust requires more than honesty. To be credible candidate, you need personal skills and qualities. Integrity is the most admire and required quality of all people. It is a key principle to gain someone’s trust. To be an effective leader that is trusted by your people you need to have integrity (suite).

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In addition to being honest, leaders with integrity behave ethically. Integrity adds values to lenders. It makes them do the right things even if it’s not in their personal interest. It makes them care more about the organization and the organizations’ people.

Trust binds all relationships together. When leaders earn their employees trust, the employees get encouraged to perform at their very best. Trustful workplace environment leads to success for the organization, its leader and employees (suite). 

Here are some opinions about how the integrity of a leader affects others?

~Please feel free to share your experiences with a trusted leader or with a non-trusted leader…

Decision Making Is The Heart of Administration

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Decision making is an activity that we all passed, passing and will pass throw in our life. Sometimes we took a charge for our decisions and decide by ourselves. Other times its better to decide by involving other people. How to decide which way to use?

Making a good decision is one of the main duties of a leader. It is a critical skill in workplace, and it is essential aspect in determining how effective a leader is(mindtools).

Leaders should be able to determine when to ask their team to help in decision making, and when to make the decision by themselves.

Asking the team for help in deciding every decision would be time consuming as well it would show that the leader has a low self-confidant. On the other hand, when leaders make every decision by themselves, it would lack the diversity of the decisions made. Leaders should be able to measure the situation they face and use the most suitable leadership method in making decisions (mindtools).

Here's a one minute tip to make better decisions:

Question: In your opinion, do you think a good leader should make most decisions by himself or should make it with his/her team? And as employee, have you ever passed through a situation you believed that your opinion would have improved the decision the leader made, but you did not get a chance to share it?

Motivational Leadership

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One of the most persistent challenges of leadership is to motivate people. In fact, 90% of a leader's job is to encourage employees to do things they already know they should be doing it (forbes).

Motivational leadership is the ability to motivate and inspire others to bring out the best in them. Furthermore, by using motivational leadership employees improve productivity and a healthy work environment is created.

Here are some theories of inspirational & motivational leadership:

The Leader as Role Model:

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Usually this is the starting point of motivational leadership.  It means leaders are module role and example to others. They are the kind of people that everyone look up at, and want to follow their steps. Effective leaders watch their behavior at all times, even if no one is watching them, they behave as everyone is watching them (hrbartender.com).

Figuring Out What Motivates Others:

Each employee has a special characters and skills. Great leaders discover and value the unique abilities of their employees. They focus on their employees strengthens, and try to build on it (money-zine.com). 



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Maintain Open Communication:

Leaders should be available to answer their employees question, to give feedback, to listen to their opinion and negotiate plans. The present of leaders plays a large role in motivating them because it shows that leaders are taking an active role in project completion (smallbusiness).

                                        

Read more about the different theories of motivational & inspirational leadership at employee-motivation-skills.com

Learn more about motivational leadership from this video:

Questions: Who do you prefer to work with a friendly leader who cares and helps you with your difficulties even the personal ones, or a leader that treat you in a professional way only? And as a leader, do you prefer having only a professional relationship with your employees or do you rather extending it and make it more personal?

Lead with Vision

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As the saying says "You must stand for something, or you'll fall for everything." Leaders must find a way to communicate and link the organization goals and visions to their people’s goals.

The leadership vision has a deeper meaning than the organizations written mission and vision statements. The vision of a leadership involves beliefs, values, actions, and goals of the organization’s leaders.

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 Great leaders look beyond the present and what must be done at the moment. They can see into the future. They create a clear picture of what they want to achieve. They have goals and they base all their actions to accomplish these goals. This quality is one of the most important if not the most important. Having a clear image change a manager into a leader (briantracy).

Having a vision does not mean that the leaders know for sure what is going to happen. In fact, no one knows that because business world is full will unexpected and uncertain situations. It means that leaders have an idea in their mind along with their fearless plan for the execution of the idea.

Here are some tips about setting your vision to energize your team:

Questions: Which vision do you think is more important the organization vision or the organization's leader vision? Do you think the difference between these two visions would affect the organizations’ performance? And if you were the leader of an organization, would you give the priority to your vision or the organizations’?

Who are leaders?

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Generally, a "leader" is someone who binds people together and guide them towards a common goal. Anyone can tell people what to do, but effective leadership required more than the ability to assign tasks to a group of people. And this is the basic different between management and leadership (businessnewsdaily). 

Not all leaders are managers and not all managers are leaders. However, the more a manager has leader qualities, the better it is for the organization.

"Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right."

– Professor Warren G. Bennis

Leaders have commonly known skills and qualities, but they use it in a way that motivates and inspires people.