Leadership is more than just telling people what to do. The more you learn about leadership, the more you realize how far you are from being where you want to be. Resilience and inspiration are keys to becoming a great leader.
The Importance of Resilience
- Being in a leadership position means that you will often have to bear a heavier load
- When the team is underperforming, everyone looks to the leader for answers
- Sometimes, the leader may not be feeling very resilient, but it is up to them to lead the way
- The performance of everyone inevitably depends on the resilience
The Importance of Inspiration
- Great leaders like Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln inspired those whom they led
- Good leaders speak and act in a way that causes us to act
- All good leaders should seek to inspire their team or followers to act in a way that they would
- It puts a lot of pressure on the leader to uphold company policy, good morals or a positive attitude
- When a leader does these things, it breathes life into their team to follow in their footsteps
Marrying Inspiration and Resilience
- Good leaders bring the two together through their actions and words
- They understand that to keep their team going there must be a constant stream of both
- Leaders inspire resilience by doing two important things
- The first is by being vulnerable and open with their team
- The second is to guide the team through hard steps. In other words, show sympathy
