What is the leader

The leader is that person who directs and manages a group of people to achieve positive results in a company or project.

To be a good leader, you must have the following characteristics:

• Have confidence in your own abilities: meaning knowing what goals you want to achieve.
• Be reliable and credible: therefore, deliver results that generate esteem and trust with employees.
• Have good psychological skills: to understand, comprehend, and communicate with others.
• Be consistent in following rules: you can become a leader because you yourself follow rules.
• Have the ability to act: by realizing goals desired by followers.

Attention! Never confuse the boss with the leader:

• The boss imposes rules and has them carried out by employees.
• The leader works and helps employees to achieve common goals using good communication.

To make you understand well, I give you some examples:

The boss drags his men, the leader inspires them.

The boss relies on authority, the leader on goodwill.

The boss says “I”, the leader says “we”.

The boss points out the guilty party, the leader points out the fault.

For the good of the company and its employees…. be a leader, not a boss.

How to become a leader?

To become a leader it is very important:

• To know how to listen: to show that one listens and meets the needs of collaborators. When a person feels heard and respected, they also perceive greater self-worth motivating employees to give more for the successful outcome of the project.
• Having clear ideas: to manage a company, a respectable leader must know with precision and determination what goals they want to achieve so as to be very clear and make themselves more easily understood by their employees.
• Being able to motivate others: one of the main characteristics that a leader must have, so as to become an example to follow. Moreover, true leaders never stop learning; indeed, they study and learn about projects together with their employees.
• Committing every day to the company's project: therefore taking responsibility when something does not go the right way.
• Being confident: in order to instill confidence in others.
• Maintaining balance within the company.
• Knowing your strengths: to use them in the pursuit of a goal.
• Select trustworthy individuals: so as to create a truly winning team!