To face the challenges of the 21st century, a leader must be innovative and creative looking for new and better ways of doing things.
Leaders must be agents of innovation and change who guide, develop and grow their organizations or groups.
Being innovative and creative, coming up with new solutions, challenging the way things are done and proposing to do different things, is important and necessary in a highly competitive world that advances rapidly with changing technology.
Leaders need to understand how new technologies are used and how to think in order to effectively analyze and synthesize the information they receive.
Flexible leaders are required, who can quickly adapt to unfamiliar or different situations, for which they have not been trained and for which they do not have experience and information.
The leader of the 21st century is the person who best processes information, who analyzes and interprets it quickly and intelligently and uses it in the most innovative and creative way possible.
A creative leader is one who knows how to see opportunities in spaces where others have not seen them.
A person can be considered a leader, when a group chooses, accepts, recognizes and establishes with him a commitment to achieve a common mission and objectives.
The leader has the ability to communicate with a group of people to influence their interests and emotions.
You must know how to discover the capabilities of each of the members of the organization or group, understand that all people are different and have sensitivity in dealing with each one.
As a leader, you get a certain group of people to share the same ideas and stay together indefinitely.
It establishes the objectives, goals, priorities and activities of its collaborators and followers.
Its main purpose is the well-being of its collaborators and followers.
He keeps the promises he makes, he knows how to listen, he always tells the truth, he fosters respect among all regardless of social or economic differences and he achieves trustworthy, lasting and authentic relationships.
Advise objectively, observe situations and processes that can be improved and share experiences of all kinds.
You look at what's valuable, prioritize what's urgent, address what's important, reclassify goals and targets, stop, and be thoughtful.
A leader has to commit and get his collaborators or followers to commit to his proposal.
You must be responsible as your leadership gives you power that you must use for the benefit of all.
The leader is much more than a boss since his instructions are carried out by his collaborators and followers with their own will and the conviction that their fulfillment is the best option for the majority.
The strength of the leader lies in his personality, his sensitivity, his qualities, skills, knowledge and capabilities.
He is passionate, optimistic, motivates and values his collaborators, demonstrates his principles and values such as honesty, boldness, integrity, perseverance, patience, loyalty, humility, resistance, respect, discipline, modesty and responsibility.
The leader is maintained by the support and loyalty that his collaborators and followers give him, as long as he responds to their needs and desires.
The leadership of an organization or group is won with long-term strategies, it must have a series of challenges and establish a program of activities to achieve it.
Leadership is the set of competencies and skills that a person has to motivate a group of individuals to work with dedication and enthusiasm to achieve the vision, mission and objectives of a common ideal or project.
Leadership studies show that leaders are generally smarter, bolder, more objective, have better judgment, interact more easily, work better under pressure, make quick and accurate decisions, can take control effectively, and feel confident themselves.
Authentic leadership is exercised by having a kind, generous and service attitude towards others.
Leadership must foster a team spirit that creates a sense of belonging and allows for collective work that is coordinated and complemented efficiently and effectively with the purpose of generating value for the organization or group and its collaborators and followers.
A society requires many different types of leaders:
- SportsBusinessStudyPoliticsReligiousTrades UnionSocialProfessionistsArtistsNeighborsOthers
The leader is the result of the needs of an organization or group and becomes vital and indispensable when the tasks, roles and processes are more complex and broad based on the achievement of the established objectives.
The conditions in which an organization or group carries out its activities efficiently and effectively depend to a great extent on the attitudes, sensitivities, intentions and personal, social and cognitive skills of its leaders.
An organization or group can have planning, organization, administration procedures and controls and not survive or be successful for lack of the right leader.
The main competencies and qualities that a leader must have or develop are:
Personal Competencies
- Broad general culture Broad criteria Positive background and trajectory Ability to interrelate Ability to innovate and change Build alliances, consensus and commitments Achieve what is proposed Communicate clearly Make quick decisions to solve problems, facing consequences and the risks of eventual failures Know how to handle yourself and take care of your body management Establish and maintain good human relationships Objectively assess your own strengths and weaknesses Ease of speech and writing Handle different scenarios that may arise Be pleasant, friendly, flexible, encouraging and friendly.Emotionally stable.Generous to the extent possible.Punctual in all activities.Be a natural leader.Have self-assertion and self-esteem.Have good prestige, good manners, charisma,sympathy, ability to attract, perceive and reason logically Strength to face fears, weaknesses, pessimism and tensions Energy and efficiency at work Integrity of principles and consistency in concepts Oriented towards success Pragmatic thinking, Logical and deductive. Persuasive and motivational potential. Personality, presentation and physical presence. Common sense. Sense of authority and command gift. Sense of responsibility. Management and control of feelings. Be a facilitator. Convey confidence and security. Convey emotional experiences. Dress appropriately according to the type of activity.Success oriented Pragmatic, logical and deductive thinking Persuasive and motivational potential Personality, presentation and physical presence Common sense Sense of authority and gift of command Sense of responsibility Managing and controlling feelings Being a facilitator Convey confidence and security Convey emotional experiences Dress appropriately according to the type of activity.Success oriented Pragmatic, logical and deductive thinking Persuasive and motivational potential Personality, presentation and physical presence Common sense Sense of authority and gift of command Sense of responsibility Managing and controlling feelings Being a facilitator Convey confidence and security Convey emotional experiences Dress appropriately according to the type of activity.
Social Skills
- Assume the role of promoter and guide Be an interpreter of the expectations, needs and desires of the group, organization or society Flexibility to solve problems between people in the organization or group Generate actions of collective motivation Promote a harmonious social climate Develop projects that meet the demands and needs of the organization, group or society Interpret other people's emotions correctly Motivate people through positive social influence Protect society's values Know how to anticipate social and collective trends Be a social leader and a model for others Have proposals that become the mission of the group or organization Generate expectations that become common objectives Have leadership of moral opinion and social control.Have corporate social responsibility Have a comprehensive vision of the issues that concern society Have a vocation to serve society.
Cognitive Competences
- Understand and qualify the problems of society and provide alternatives for practical solutions that are congruent with the possibilities of the environment Think strategically Design strategies Know how information is processed, analyze it and use it in an innovative and creative way Have teaching capacity Planning capacity Have and generate a culture and organizational capacity Above average analytical intelligence Know modern theories of motivation and communication.
Sensitivity
- Build a shared vision Convince your employees to behave in a certain way Delegate power and generate responsibility Understand leadership as a mission of social service Understand collective behavior Establish bonds of loyalty with your followers Avoid being carried away by pessimism Avoid Promising what they cannot fulfill Facilitate the development of their collaborators' potentials Generate synergy and team spirit Identify growth opportunities for their collaborators Manage adversities with intelligence Forgive faults and punish undesirable behaviors Support their collaborators in all kinds of problems Be able to defend and fight for your collaborators and followers Separate from the group those collaborators who do not give their best effort Be a facilitator and not a paternalistic leader.Have intelligence and emotional competence Have a long-term vision Transform all possible situations into opportunities.
Attitude
- Support your collaborators in difficult moments Share control of processes, procedures and activities with others Give your collaborators or followers encouragement, strength and integrity Have an incessant fighting spirit Be open to new ideas and experiences Avoid taking despotic attitudes with Employees, subordinates, collaborators and in general Generate positive synergies and team spirit Demanding to fulfill the mission and objectives Confront with serenity the obstacles and adversities that are encountered Be congruent with the social and political situation of the moment Achieve empathy with whom It surrounds you Be motivated to change and learn Know how to work in a team Be an agent of change Have a positive, serious and joyful state of mind according to the circumstances and different scenarios.
A leader knows his strengths and makes the most of them and also his weaknesses and seeks to improve them.
A leader must clearly communicate to his collaborators and followers his values, vision, mission, objectives, strategy, proposal and work program to align efforts in the same direction.
Loss of Leadership
Leadership can be lost for different reasons:
- Collaborators who isolate themselves from the organization or group Conflicts and strong discussions among collaborators Difference of ideas between the leader and their collaborators and / or followers Variations in the way of being, doing and resolving of the leader Indifference and passivity of the Collaborators and followers Small groups that destroy everyone's effort The expectations of collaborators and followers are not met.
We must be aware that collaborators and / or followers do not unconditionally give trust to their leaders, they only lend it and maintain it when there are results that benefit the organization or group.
Leadership training and education
Depending on the profile and experience of the leader, they can be trained in managing their image in the media and in different settings.
Some of the topics in which the leader can be trained are:
- Voice management Body movements Eye contact Negotiation and leadership of groups and reporters Management of weaknesses and strengths of their image Training in specific topics Ease of speech Speech and debate Management of their biography, career and achievements. Modern motivation techniques. Public image tactics necessary to improve your results.
Personal image can be improved through the recognition of the essence, the definition of the character, its style, the setting of individual standards of dress and grooming based on applied semiotics.
A master plan and strategies are required to govern the entire process of creating or modifying a public image in order to achieve congruence in the pronouncement and expression of all verbal and non-verbal stimuli that change the image.
There are leaders who are born and others who are made with training and who are as good or better than those who have an innate ability.
There are few born leaders, so leadership must be learned by different people to meet the needs of a society.
Anyone can become a leader if they have the desire to fulfill a mission and achieve a goal.
Leadership requires a series of attitudes and behaviors that can be learned.
The characteristics of a leader can be changed or modified, strengthening the weakest and improving the strongest.
This is one of the reasons why there are no perfect leaders, we all have weak and strong characteristics.
But the best leaders focus and grow by leveraging their strong characteristics and mastering their weak ones.
It is essential that leaders train leaders by training their collaborators within a continuous leadership program aimed at developing people's potential and capacity for action.
Leadership must be a driving style that is committed to the development of its collaborators and followers, assuming the commitment to facilitate their learning and change processes
The challenge for leaders of the 21st century is that their collaborators are trained and trained and act as leaders. It is to generate a leader model for the current and future needs of each organization or group.
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Jack Fleitman:
www.ciemsa.mx professional consultants
@jackkmex
