Leadership Development is all the rage this year! The Global Tour 2016 has brought a lot of knowledge to GIG's clients from all over the world who are now armed with all the tools to jump start their success!
Are you a true leader? Read and find out!
Who better to describe what is a true leader than Global and Grand Leaders? They have a wide experience and, at the Global Assembly 2016, each of them talked about the main characteristics of a true leader.
Unsurprisingly, their answers were quite similar.
- True leaders inspire and take other people to successPeople make you a leader. They follow you because you encourage them to keep moving towards the achievement of results, because you motivate them to never give up.
- True leaders lead by exampleYou cannot ask your team to organize events or to contact X number of potential clients in one week, for example, if you don't do that. They will not do as you say, they will do what they see you doing.
- True leaders have a clear goalTo advance, you have to know where you are going. To have people following you, they have to know where you are going too. If you share common goals, move forward together!
- True leaders are responsibleThe people who follow you placed their trust on you, they believe that you will take them to success. Do not let them down! Real leaders help their team to achieve results.
- True leaders are humbleIf you think you already know everything – your business will stop growing.
- True leaders teach peopleThey know nobody is born a leader and everyone can acquire leadership skills on the way, such as public communication and time-management.
- True leaders help peopleThe vocation of being a leader comes from within. You have to be ready to help people without asking anything in return.What about the reward for being a real leader? 100% satisfaction when seeing your team members happy!
