Currently there are many studies on leadership in the business world. There are various names for the different styles of leaders and leadership. Leadership cannot be understood in isolation from values.
The leader is not the person who says what to do. Someone who tells you what to do is a boss. The leader is the person you want to follow, not who you should follow. At present, authority is necessary as a vital part of the job, but to form a leader it is not enough.
The initial meaning of the word leadership is to take a trip in the company of others. So when a leader heads somewhere, he has already established his goal and vision. They attract, please, and influence others. Those who join them on the journey trust that they know the way.
Therefore, being a leader comes from the human and natural struggle to be able to reinvent oneself. It means developing and inspiring others along the way, and for this you need the ability to see beyond, as well as to pay attention to where you are. Authority comes on its own, but leadership needs to be earned.
The leader cares about his people, knows them as individuals and respects what is important to them, but at the same time he knows that not all his employees respond in the same way to the same incentive, which is why he does not try to impose it on them. to all. He controls his employees, both those who are working well and those who are not. People feel that they are contributing to the organization and they respect it. The work gets done, but not only because he trusts his authority but also because he knows that his people want to do the job well. He inspires them to do their best. This is a leader. Not everyone is like that, but everyone can choose to pay attention and lead based on the values of respect and justice, motivating and inspiring others,having as a priority what is important to his employees and not what is important to him.
A boss has power, a leader has influence. A boss depends on his authority, a leader gains authority by being respected by his people. A boss forces people to get things done, a leader incentivizes people to want to do things.
There are two contradictions about value-based leadership. The first is that leadership can be given but not taken. A person may have power and authority, but this is not the same as leading. People follow a leader because they want to, not because they should. A leader without people to follow him. The second paradox is that the person who is a leader must inspire others, if they cannot inspire themselves.
Leaders have a vision of how the world could be, we all have our individual vision, but leaders also face a common vision. They are on a journey that is important to them. When we talk about what is important, we talk about values. Values are simply what is important to us. Values provide you with the energy to get out of bed in the morning and the fuel for the journey we must undertake to reach your goal. Without values, the journey cannot take place.
Good managers treat problem behaviors based on values. They do not challenge the behavior, but make it clear that it is unacceptable. In turn, they mark and recognize the values that lie behind. The behavior has a purpose. We always act to achieve something that we value and that, at the same time, is very important to us. Unfortunately, the actions or behaviors that we sometimes use to achieve our goals are not always the best and can cause inconvenience with a member of your team.
Keep your values, people notice it and it is important. Values-based leadership can come from any level in the organization. What we can assure you is that if the people in the highest positions do not show it, your employees will lose respect. People will become skeptical of values and scoff at them. Then they will start working just for money, and every survey has shown that while paying a fair salary is essential, there are other values such as challenge, respect and progress that are more important than money. Unless a manager leads his people by doing their job in a challenging, respectful, and respectable way, his employees will quit their job and bring their knowledge, effort, and expertise to the competition. Thus,It is easy to see that values-based leadership is not an ideal, but a self-interest.
