Modeling Leadership: If You Fail To Lead Yourself You Will Fail To Lead Others
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Modeling Leadership - Harold Mawela
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1 Introduction
Modeling leadership is genuine leadership
Basically leadership is about people. When people need to work together to achieve an objective, they need leadership. When people are uncertain what to do next, they need leadership. When people are struggling to overcome difficult situations, they need leadership.
Whatever definition you favour, and there are many to choose from, leadership is about getting the best from people. It is underpinned by a real belief in people and a desire to want to help those people make the most of their talents.
Success in any organisation depends on people and so great leaders believe, and behave in accordance with that belief, that real, long-term success is best delivered through embracing the skills and energies of people.
Leadership is also about vision. Leaders need a clear vision of the future goal, but they will not be able to achieve that vision unless they take the people that they lead along with them. A leader without followers is plainly no leader at all and neither is a leader who has unwilling followers. So leadership involves winning people's hearts and minds, persuading them to share and embrace that vision and then motivating them to give of their best to help achieve it. Leaders must therefore understand what motivates people, recognising that people are different and that those differences should be embraced.
Of course, the word leadership comes from the verb 'to lead', the dictionary definition of which includes 'guide or show the way' and 'guide by persuasion or example'. So leadership must be about showing the way; not only creating the vision but also showing by example what people should do and how they should behave. True leadership is not therefore about telling people what to do, giving orders and expecting them to be carried out without explanation or guidance. People are generally too bright and skilled for that to be an appropriate way to lead and so they need to be free to realise their full potential. Leaders must therefore set high standards in everything that they do for others to follow.
Leaders should be careful never to forget how much they depend on people. They should never believe too much in their own ability, never believe that they always know best and never rely purely on their status as a leader to tell others what to do. Leaders should never see themselves as better than the people that they are trying to lead and should not put themselves, or allow others to put them, on a pedestal that creates a barrier between themselves and those people that they depend on.
Achieving success for an organisation, while at the same time developing and nurturing people and taking real delight from their success, means that leadership can, and should, be a positive, exciting, energising and fulfilling role. For those leaders who find leadership a lonely, isolated role, it is most likely because they have not understood and embraced the people aspect of leadership.
So leadership is about human interactions and relationships, not about theoretical models, and a team's, or an organisation's, success depends to a great extent on the leader setting the tone and establishing a positive culture by his/her own behaviour. Truly effective leadership is about creating the right environment, recruiting the right people, and then leading by example.
Who is a leader?
Too often leadership is associated with a title, but the reality is that leadership is about what people do. Titles may give someone authority and perhaps power, but trust and respect are only given to people because of their behaviour.
Although leaders may be CEO's of large multinational organisations or heads of nations or large public organisations, most are typically ordinary people who have simply been asked to do a job which involves getting other people to help in achieving an objective. Leadership is often only a temporary role when, for example, a particular task or project requires someone to take the role of leader to accomplish a specific outcome.
For some people leadership is only a part-time role so that in addition to leading, they also spend time managing resources and carrying out tasks alongside the other team members. As such it is important that people understand when they are taking on a leadership role, and when they are not, so that they behave in the right way for the role that they are fulfilling at any particular time.
Sometimes leaders are formally given the role of leader, while in other situations people assume that role. Regardless of how someone becomes a leader, the principles of leadership