What is leadership? The classic leadership training textbook Leadership Required Reading 12 defines leadership as: Leadership refers to the ability to make full use of human resources and objective conditions within the jurisdiction to do what needs to be done at the lowest cost, so as to improve the efficiency of the whole group.
Leadership challenges can be described as a combination of behaviors that motivate people to go where they want to go, rather than simply obeying. According to the definition of leadership, we can see that it exists around us, in the management, in the classroom, in the stadium, in the government, in the army, in listed multinational companies, in small companies, and even in a small family. We can see leadership at all levels and in all fields, which is the core of everything we do well. A title or position cannot automatically create a leader.
How to improve your leadership? First of all, it is strongly recommended that you read some classic textbooks such as Required Reading for Leaders 12. Secondly, no matter which leader he is, Bian Xiao believes that the improvement of his leadership needs foresight first, that is, to know where he will lead these partners who are willing to follow him. Hyperopia is the field of vision, and myopia is the goal. Therefore, to improve leadership, we must first have foresight and clear our own goals.
I think it is to improve my persuasiveness, because leading others must learn to communicate with others, be kind to others, and persuade others to support themselves, so as to win the respect of others, establish knowledge with more people, and share the same interests. This can be learned, so I hope everyone will take the time to learn their communication skills, watch more debates and learn their own methods, and then gradually improve their leadership skills.
In addition, it is very important to show your charm to others. When you communicate with others, if your image is not satisfactory and you look unfriendly at first glance, he won't give you a chance to talk to him. Therefore, the charm of personal image must be changed to improve leadership, because Bian Xiao's experience tells everyone that personal charm is also very important in leadership.
How to improve leadership and set an example first?
Xenophon, a famous general in ancient Rome, once said, "No matter what a leader stands for, as long as he shows that he is best at realizing it, he will rarely be despised by his subordinates." . It is human nature that actions are a hundred times more infectious and influential than words. At the time of realization, people have a strong tendency to imitate adult behavior since childhood, and this tendency has not disappeared after adulthood, and it is still the most important force that dominates our behavior.
Caring for subordinates
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Qi, a famous general of the State of Wu, was very sympathetic and concerned about his subordinates. When he visited the battlefield, he saw a soldier's leg festering, so he sucked it out with his mouth. The soldier's mother cried when she heard this. When someone asked why, she replied, "My son's life is not long. He had a brother, and General Wu once helped him suck pus from his leg and later died in battle. " Sure enough, the soldier soon fought bravely for gratitude and finally died. "This is the potential inspired by the emotions of subordinates.
Put people in places where they can give full play to their abilities.
Yi Zhongtian said of Liu Bang in the Book of Pinren: "As a leader, Liu Bang's greatest feature is' knowing people'. By knowing people, I don't mean to respect and make good use of talents in a general sense, but to understand human nature, both its advantages and its weaknesses. Only in this way can we unite all forces that can be United to the maximum extent, isolate the enemy, break them one by one, and finally take the world in our hands. He also knows a truth: among all things in the world, people are the most precious. "
How to improve leadership and excellent personal morality quickly? The ancients often said that "serving people with virtue" means that the ruling class should rely on good virtue to exercise people's obedience in the process of governing the country. In modern enterprise management, the managed and the manager have equal legal status, and the relationship between them is equal cooperation and two-way choice. However, due to different division of labor, there must be management and being managed. Therefore, managers must have excellent moral quality, which will have an impact on the managed, so that managers can take the initiative and strive for progress in thought and action.
Cultivate advanced public welfare thoughts. "Public interest" and "self-interest" are a pair of opposing concepts. People know the meaning of "selfish heart" and many people are influenced by it. However, as a manager, only by taking advanced public interest thought and "public interest" as the standard to measure management behavior can we consider and balance the interests of all parties, gain more support and support, and greatly enhance leadership.
Practice excellent persuasion. Enterprise managers often have to focus on the overall situation, consider long-term interests, and communicate with many parties inside and outside the enterprise. Their various decisions and decisions are often not understood and accepted by everyone, which requires excellent persuasion. How to communicate and coordinate in the most appropriate way to make things go smoothly is also an important factor in determining leadership.
As the executive layer of decision-making, middle-level leaders play an extremely important role in the organization. They need to think about problems from the standpoint of operators and implement policies to meet the expectations of their superiors. It is also necessary to coordinate the relationship with subordinates and fully mobilize their enthusiasm; At the same time, it is necessary to coordinate the division of labor and cooperation between departments at the same level. The multiple identities of middle-level leaders make them in the most active and unstable structure in enterprise organizations. Then, as a middle-level leader, how can we be comfortable in the complex environment of "squeezing up and pressing down" and make ourselves an excellent manager?
Facing the complicated relationship between the top, bottom, left and right, how to take on the heavy responsibility of multiple roles and do a good job at the same time to lay the foundation for the next higher position is the core challenge faced by middle-level leaders. Therefore, as a qualified middle-level leader, he must have high quality and various abilities, including organizational ability, communication ability, coordination ability, control ability, ability to find and foresee problems, decision-making ability, planning ability, problem-solving ability, emergency ability, discipline ability, evaluation ability and interpersonal relationship ability.
Middle-level leaders must constantly broaden their knowledge and improve their knowledge structure. They should learn and accumulate targeted professional knowledge and skills according to the nature of different industries and their own needs, including industry knowledge, professional knowledge, business knowledge, relevant laws and regulations, and the handling of different interpersonal relationships.
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The influence of middle-level leaders
Decision-making power can rely on experience, assistants and wisdom; Leadership and execution can depend on system, power and responsibility. Only influence depends on the leader's personality, personal prestige and reputation, and influences the team's thoughts, behaviors, habits and even decisions with their own personal qualities. To improve the influence of middle-level leaders, we must first know-what is influence? The so-called influence is a special interpersonal influence. Everyone in the organization will influence others and accept their influence, so every employee has potential and realistic influence.
In the organization, leaders and members * * * push the team to advance towards the established goals, thus forming an organic system. The leader's personality characteristics and leadership art, the subjective initiative of employees, the benign interaction between leaders and employees, and the formulation and realization of organizational strategy and business objectives are all directly related to the leadership ability of enterprise leaders themselves! The core of leadership is lasting influence on others.
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Learning ability of middle-level leaders
Learning ability refers to learning motivation, learning perseverance and learning ability. Managers who already have learning ability have a problem of how to turn learning ability into competitiveness. If all the members of an enterprise can devote themselves wholeheartedly and gain continuous growth in their learning ability, the enterprise is a learning organization. For today's enterprise competition, everyone will say that it is the competition of talents and resources. However, the theory of learning organization tells us that enterprises compete for talents with learning ability. The reason is very simple, and the learning ability is relatively strong. After a few years, not talents will become talents, but talents will become senior talents. Choosing learning is choosing progress. Without learning ability, there is no competitiveness. Improving learning ability means enhancing competitiveness, creativity and leadership.
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Middle-level collaborative leadership
Change is inevitable, and many cooperative and self-organizing systems have begun to change around the world. As a middle-level leader in 2 1 century, we must understand these systems and how to cooperate with them. It requires higher-level thinking and communication, understanding the core value of cooperation and the principles of cooperation with the global level and self-organizing systems.
In the past, the "command and control" CEO can hardly survive in today's highly interconnected and cooperative environment. The argument of "collaborative leadership" is everywhere. The so-called collaborative leadership refers to those people with high emotional intelligence and wide connections, who are managed by authorizing people who follow them rather than according to the organization chart.
Whether a leader is excellent or not depends on one thing: whether a successful cooperative relationship can be established. Weak leaders never believe in their own success unless they see others' failures. Nowadays, the challenges faced by enterprises are very complex, and it is difficult for individuals or single organizations to solve them. In order to get a long-term and effective solution, we need not only internal coordination, but also cooperation with customers, suppliers and even competitors. Leaders must create a spirit of mutual cooperation by eliminating internal struggles and parochialism. Only by realizing internal cooperation can we form external competitive advantage.
As a manager of an enterprise, how to improve leadership?
In any enterprise, you will meet some disobedient employees, which may be a headache for managers in daily communication. As a manager of an enterprise, how should we change this situation? From the manager's point of view, I think we should start by improving our leadership. The following aspects can help our managers improve their personal abilities:
1, set up your own example image.
Managers often play the role of leaders in enterprises, and the leadership of managers is first reflected in their personal image. Within the scope of daily work, managers should pay special attention to personal words and deeds, transmit positive energy to subordinates, pay special attention to the company's prevention, and understand what the company advocates and prohibits.
2, clear the overall strategic direction of the enterprise.
In most cases, subordinates don't carry out the instructions of their superiors, which may be because they don't know the specific work arrangement instructions and know nothing about the arranged work, which leads to anxiety and rejection in their hearts and then dissatisfaction. Therefore, in the daily work arrangement, we must clearly determine the work content and standards, and employees will meet the requirements according to this instruction.
3. Solve major problems of subordinates.
There will be various problems in the operation of enterprises, but some things are beyond the ability and authority of employees. You can imagine the inner anxiety about the unsolvable problems. At this time, as leaders, we need to take the initiative to help subordinates solve difficult problems, so that subordinates don't worry about problems and trust leaders more. It is this principle to help subordinates solve problems encountered in their work and give them support in resources so as to gain their approval.
4. Improve the independence of subordinates.
In learning, we have academic plans, and after leaving society, we must have career plans. Enterprises should provide a good platform for the career planning of their subordinates. If employees' personal abilities and skills are improved, they can better serve the enterprise. Subordinates will also feel that the enterprise is their long-term development goal, so as to appreciate the training of leaders from the bottom of their hearts, and will also create the glory of the enterprise together with the pace of leadership.
5. Grasp the balance between two sides of things.
Fairness and justice is a criterion for the long-term development of an enterprise, but this principle does not mean that it is inflexible. Everything has two sides. As a leader, grasping the balance between the two is the responsibility of the leader and the embodiment of leadership ability. If it is not handled well, it will make employees feel chilling and will be disappointed with the enterprise.
6. The law is merciless
It is women who are soft-hearted. As a manager of an enterprise, if you want to improve your leadership, you must be soft-hearted and ruthless. Some employees with bad conduct, if not strictly dealt with, will inevitably lead to a mouse excrement polluting a pot of soup. In this case, the best choice is team slag removal. Leaders must be responsible for the enterprise. If they are not handled in time, other employees will follow suit and have a bad influence on the enterprise.