Understanding Leadership & Responsibility

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​Leaders Need High Emotional IQ to Succeed:
  • Leader as 'hero' is a flawed approach.
  • Leader self-interest over organisation is a bad position for the organisation.
  • Leadership needs to be developed.
  • Leaders need talent around them.
  • Money is not the only motivator.
  • Company mission and values are important.
  • Align, Empower, Serve & Collaborate.
  • Avoid hierarchical structures of management:  "Be with the troops".
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  • ​​Don't blame, take responsibility: ​It is a leader's responsibility to establish a team mentality, encourage people to take responsibility for what they do and see failures as their failure.
  • Become aware:  Self-awareness allows you to rely on who you are not on who you want people to think you are
  • ​Respect everyone:  Everyone is a mini-expert in what they do, respect this.  Utilise everyone and encourage people to reach their potential.
  • Value your work and prioritise your career:  By taking on the role of leader you become responsible for everyone you lead.  This means that the more you grow as a leader the better you serve everyone you lead.  
  • Be sceptical, there are personal and professional tricksters:  Being open and empowering and collaborative does not mean becoming a 'soft-touch'.  You can demand respect, honesty and a fair days work from everyone you bring into your team.
  • Make peace with your own weaknesses:  Becoming an 'authentic leader' means learning from your mistakes and building upon them.
  • Be happy:  Everyone looks to their leader for motivation, inspiration and security.  The more motivated, inspired and confident you are the more they can draw from you.
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What's Next?

I believe in a defined team-oriented structure where leaders lead, managers manage and 'workers' work.  In sports this structure is almost always based on experience, merit and ability.

Birth-right and entitlement are things of the past, even the modern 'Baron's' of the sports world have enough sense (mostly) to employ experts and stay away from day-to-day issues.
With this in mind a modern leader needs to consider the -
  • Need to care.
  • Strength that comes from knowing yourself and your team.
  • Relationship between power and responsibility.
  • Dominance of thinking 'us' over 'me'.
  • Power of listening to critical feedback.​
  • Need for transparency.
  • Role in building organisational trust.
  • Reasons leaders lead not manage.
  • Why managers should not be expected to lead.
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