This is the first of our guest posts by Paul Matthews from People Alchemy. Paul’s weekly tips for managers are very likely to become a feature of this blog. Watch this space…
We hear a lot about leadership these days. And it is increasingly true that to get your team and the people around you to do things, you need to lead rather than command. Managers become leaders through thinking and behaving in certain ways and you will get much better results when you know what those are and how to use them.
The Keys To Being An Effective Leader
Leadership is about challenging and motivating people to use their potential. Those managers who focused on improving their people skills early in their career are now achieving greater success than those who didn’t. As your people skills grow, so do your opportunities.
Remember that leaders are made, not born. They are made by themselves, more by their own life experience and high levels of self-awareness and self-management than by external factors.
Leadership can be learned. In other words, the midwife does not come out with the new baby and announce “It’s a leader!”
Paul Matthews is the founder and CEO of People Alchemy.
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