Jan 13 2010
Leader, My Leader, Do You Inspire “Willing Action?”
Leadership has been defined as “the ability to inspire willing action”
Emphasis is placed on the “willing.” But to understand leadership, we need to delve a little deeper than that.
One thing which experience has proven over and over again down through the ages is that when any group of people are thrown together for any length of time or for any project, a leader will emerge from the group – one to whom they will listen and give their confidence and support.
Their position on the organisation chart or their title alone cannot make a person a genuine leader. They must have certain traits and skills, or they will surely fail. In business, it has been shown again and again that these skills can be learned and the traits can be developed in any individual who is willing to exert an effort based on strong desire and a true hunger for success.
Generally, a leader or teacher does not actually “develop” another person. They encourage and inspire that person to develop themselves from within. Thus, leadership is, in a large sense, self-initiated.
Once we understand and identify the methods and characteristics of admired leaders, we can take steps to develop these skills and traits ourselves. We can analyse ourselves — honestly, ruthlessly, objectively – and identify which skills we need to acquire or improve (and those which we need to play down).
No One Is Perfect!
The perfect leader has yet to be born. We all have room for self-improvement. If we can agree upon what it takes to be a good leader – what are the traits of leadership, what are the skills – we will at least have made a good start. We should analyze every genuine leader we know and try to learn which qualities influenced us to consider them a good leader.
And that is what I have done. My first experience of leading was thrust upon me at the tender age of eight years old, when I captained my soccer team – since then, I have always been the captain – it is as well, because I am not a very good follower, however hard I tried.
Are great leaders born or made? Well we can discuss that “hot topic” again shortly….watch this space.
Today’s News:
SalesNexus today announced the release of “Build Your Own Automatic Selling Machine”. The Free eBook focuses on the challenges small and medium sized businesses face with limited resources for advertising and marketing when attempting to grow their sales. The eBook provides affordable and actionable steps any business can take to generate qualified sales leads without busting the budget.
“Build Your Own Automatic Selling Machine” will include:
• 4 Reasons You’re Throwing Money Down the Drain When You Pay for Advertising and Marketing
• 3 Radical Changes in the Way People Buy Going On Today You Can Use to Increase
• 5 Fallacies in Marketing and Selling that Cause You to Waste Money and Destroy Profits
• 2 Reasons What Your Sales People Tell You About Your Leads and Your Marketing is WRONG
• 3 Ways to Measure the Your Advertising and Marketing Easily
• 6 Action Steps to Get More Quality Leads and Close More Sales
• 8 Metrics You Must Know About Marketing
“Small businesses feel trapped.”, said Craig Klein, SalesNexus CEO. “To grow they need to spend money, a lot of it. Hiring sales people and investing in traditional advertising campaigns is expensive. ‘Build Your Own Automatic Selling Machine’ gets specific about how to generate more leads for your existing sales team without spending a mint.”
The eBook will be published first as a weekly series of blog posts on the SalesNexus Blog (sellsellsell.salesnexus.com) and then as a complete eBook PDF in February 2010. The first chapter, “4 Reasons Your Throwing Money Down the Drain when you Pay for Advertising and Marketing” is available free now.
“We’ll release one chapter each week. Readers can register to receive each new chapter via email as its released for free.”, said Klein.
Readers can register to be emailed each chapter as its release and receive the entire eBook in PDF format in February, for free, here – http://www.salesnexus.com/lp/lp-build-your-own-automatic-selling-machine.php
“4 Reasons Your Throwing Money Down the Drain when you Pay for Advertising and Marketing” can be read free here – http://sellsellsell.salesnexus.com/2010/01/11/4-reasons-youre-throwing-money-down-the-drain-when-you-pay-for-advertising-and-marketing/
To learn more about SalesNexus online CRM, click here – http://www.salesnexus.com/
