Why are many people when they work as an assistant the ideal employee, but when they are promoted to a higher-ranking position, they fail?
Many people think that their professional development comes only as a consequence of age or as many or as many years working in a certain area or in a particular company.
If this is so, why are many people when they work as an assistant the ideal employee, but the moment they are promoted to a higher-ranking position, they fail? The answer to this question is the following: because he never developed his leadership, and definitely for positions of higher hierarchy, if you are not a good leader, you are going to stagnate or you will remain an ideal assistant all your life.
The good news is that leadership, like any other skill one wants to acquire, can be learned and through practice we can become masters of the matter. Now. How do we develop leadership?
- First, we have to discard shyness entirely. If we want to give orders and appear convincing, the first thing we must do is be sure of ourselves. If your subordinates see you as doubtful, why would they trust a project that you don't even believe in yourself? Second: Many times in our desire to get along with our subordinates, we don't put a heavy hand in situations that warrant it. In an insecure way, you ask your assistants that to finish this project on time, the entire team needs to report to work for a while on Saturday morning. No one can and you cannot do anything, just stay all weekend working, doing everyone else's work, and ultimately it is not done well because it was a job for six people to do, and not only a.If you start to give bad results, even if you blame your subordinates, who is going to be on the tightrope for not having character is going to be you and not them. Third: Do not get too involved with your assistants. This is a bit like the previous point, people who are like this in order to be the boss wonder do what they expect them to do rather than get them to do what is expected of them. Here I am not in favor of resorting to authoritarianism. A despotic chief who only achieves things with threats is a chief who has to use his hierarchical position to intimidate and make them obey him. The secret of any good leader is to convince those involved in the benefits that will be obtained as a result of joint commitment. Fourth: Encourage the creativity of your team.When a boss says the results he wants to get, how he wants them, the process to follow, where when how, he is giving background parameters and form, most likely, his subordinates feel unmotivated when doing the job. Why? Because they only participated with their hands and not with their creativity. If you bring them together giving them the expected results and asking them for their opinion on how, when you do the work you will have much more committed and motivated employees. Fifth. Preach by example. A good leader is not the one who leaves everyone to work on Saturday while he doesn't show up at the office. If you want them to get involved with the project, get involved too. Assuming that you finished your part and there is no need for you to go to work on Saturday.Tell them that if they need you to help them with something you can go with pleasure, they will most likely appreciate it and they won't even ask you to go. You showed respect for their needs. They therefore show respect for yours. Sixth Don't be lukewarm. Many times democratic negotiations are required between the participants of a team. But many times it requires something to be done that those involved do not think or feel necessary. If you have orders from above that there is no way to change the stipulated plans, you should let them know. Without criticizing your superiors or showing an air of authoritarianism. If your team is upset, the work performed may be of poor quality.You showed respect for their needs. They therefore show respect for yours. Sixth Don't be lukewarm. Many times democratic negotiations are required between the participants of a team. But many times it requires something to be done that those involved do not think or feel necessary. If you have orders from above that there is no way to change the stipulated plans, you should let them know. Without criticizing your superiors or showing an air of authoritarianism. If your team is upset, the work performed may be of poor quality.You showed respect for their needs. They therefore show respect for yours. Sixth Don't be lukewarm. Many times democratic negotiations are required between the participants of a team. But many times it requires something to be done that those involved do not think or feel necessary. If you have orders from above that there is no way to change the stipulated plans, you should let them know. Without criticizing your superiors or showing an air of authoritarianism. If your team is upset, the work performed may be of poor quality.But many times it requires something to be done that those involved do not think or feel necessary. If you have orders from above that there is no way to change the stipulated plans, you should let them know. Without criticizing your superiors or showing an air of authoritarianism. If your team is upset, the work performed may be of poor quality.But many times it requires something to be done that those involved do not think or feel necessary. If you have orders from above that there is no way to change the stipulated plans, you should let them know. Without criticizing your superiors or showing an air of authoritarianism. If your team is upset, the work performed may be of poor quality.
What you should do in these cases is show empathy for the way your people feel: "I understand what they feel, and believe me, I sometimes feel the same way, I would like to be able to help you so that this work would be less burdensome for you" AND then minimize the problem. "It is a big bomb that will last two days when we work hard, but then everything will return to normal"
To be boss you first have to look like it even when you are not. Do you want to advance professionally? Who will you give the position of manager? Who has been in the company the longest? Or to the one who shows that he has the way to lead a group. And achieve results in the best way for everyone. With these six simple steps you can start to practice your leadership even if you do not have subordinates, you cannot wait to be promoted to start showing leader wood.
