Qualities Of An Effective Leader, Role In Organizational Success, And Complexities

Emotional intelligence and empathy

Questions:

According To You What Are The Qualities Of An Effective Leader?

How Leader Leads To Success According To You?

According To You What Are The Role Of Leader In The Organization Success?

What Are The Complexities For A Leader?

Leadership plays an important role in any organisation to perform in a smooth manner as there must be an arrangement in any system to monitor the function of overall management. A leader is one who possesses the excellent skills to supervise the employees of the company so that their performance can be timely evaluated and corrected if there is any such requirement to do. Leaders not only supervise the lower level personnel of the company but also try to keep a focus on maintaining a good level of cooperation and coordination among the entire workforce.

During the training period, we had learned various lessons from the manager of the company where we have imparted training, as he possessed excellent leadership qualities which made his company grow and succeed. 

Emotional intelligence and empathy: Manager was aware of the significance of creating bonds with his co-workers. From the beginning of his career, he focused on gaining the respect of his employees (Mittal, E. V., & Sindhu, 2012). He possessed the high level of emotional intelligence and empathy for everyone. No leader is born as a leader. The management also did not have leadership experience but he gained it through efforts and experience of his journey to success (Germain, 2012). It is crucial to work on management skills and game based learning. By these methodologies, people improved their skills by continuous learning and practice. Emotional intelligence also brings discipline amongst employees, as through EI controlling and redirecting on the disruptive action can be taken easily.

The ability of the manager to mix with other is the trait which retains the employee for the longer period. The manager was capable of persuading and leading teams in an efficient manner towards the goal. Social skills help employee of the organization to communicate and cooperate effectively with manager target. It also helps the manager to cooperate with diversity existing amongst employee in the organization. It also enables managers to keep innovating, sharing and learning activities going in an organization. It helps the manager to create trust amongst employees, as a manager is supportive in showing beliefs amongst employees (Kinicki & Kreitner, 2012). As a manager, he knows to rely on other skills and judgment than appreciating the success of the team. 

Social skills

Master listener: As a manager of the organization he is having the capability of being a master listener. He deals with a conflicting view and personalities efficiently. Employees of the organization are allowed to counter the point of view of manager without fear of retaliation. He is always interested in seeking interest and point of view employees working under him (Kluger, & Zaidel, 2013). In the end, he will respectfully make his final decision towards goals and problems of organization. As a leader, he was very intelligent to understand the behavior of employee towards work. He always inspires his team to work efficiently and achieve target as per standards. He always invites others to express their opinions and ideas in discussion forums, this fosters impressive listening even ideas might be different from others (Côté, et al., 2010). 

Observe petty expenses and limit on borrowing: As a manager, he always invests in the businesses of person’s who has control over petty expenses. Supervising attentiveness over each expense can make business earn profits and pay check amount also increases. And putting a limit on borrowings helps in surviving through credit, as loan won’t give wealth for the longest time. As a manager, he never borrowed a major amount for investing or through mortgaging. He follows the principle of negotiating with creditors to pay what a business can and when business is debt-free, work on saving money so that it can be used in future.

Be eager to be divergent: As a manager, he never based his decisions on what other people will be saying or doing. According to him, everyone rather than following the crowd should observe for underperforming investment which can grow to heights in upcoming future (Petkovski, 2012). For him, the average is just what everybody else is doing, to be above average a person should measure himself by his inside instincts. It means examining yourself by own standards, not the worlds.

Accountability: Extra ordinary leaders like the manager is responsible for everyone performance in the organization. As a manager, he is taking responsibility for everyone’s performance and considers all the issue arising amongst the team members. He also evaluates employees performance, monitoring the performance, removing issues arose and much more. Successful leaders make a culture of commitment by characterizing responsibility as making their own particular choices and being in charge of their own behavior (Bezuijen, et al., 2010).

Master listener

Self-managing: It’s difficult to oversee others successfully in the event that a leader can’t manage him. Self-managing implies having the capacity to organize your objectives and being in charge of fulfilling those targets. As a viable manager, they should have the capacity to control time, consideration and feelings, while staying attentive towards qualities, shortcomings and the potential source of bias. Outstanding leaders are capable of dealing with stress and adjusting their own and expert lives. In any case, you should likewise recollect the significance of sympathy and have the capacity to react to individuals and occasions in a suitable way. Make sure to keep up self-control and discipline in the company, however they should abstain from ending up excessively reserved or rigid.

Setting the goal and persisting: Set clear objectives which should be adhered and deliberated for accomplishing them. Back everything up with relentless self-assurance. If a manager believes in himself and has trust things are going right then individuals will be automatically attracted towards the leader. A manager should keep in mind that recording objectives is vital to the accomplishment of both manager and operations (Petkovski, 2012). Be that as it may, fulfilling those objectives requires some serious efforts and time.

Active strategically: A unique approach and receptive approach is important for the present leaders. Leaders should be prepared set up to alter their strategies to catch developing open doors or handle starting difficulties (Stewart, Courtright & Manz, 2011). Thinking deliberately is a continuous procedure that includes evaluating the business condition. A manager can develop key thinking by:

• Being interested and really keen in organization and wider business situation,
• Being adaptable in outlook and attempting new methodologies and thoughts,
• Focusing on the future and evaluating organization’s operational conditions, and
• Maintaining an inspirational outlook.

Result oriented: As a manager being result oriented is the important qualification for a manager. It ensures managers to reach their objectives effectively and timely. Having a competitive nature and bringing achievement shows the good quality of a manager in achieving organizational goal (Marquardt, 2011).

Be that as it may, similar to any quality, there are both sides “the good” and “the bad”. Managers that are regularly convinced towards objectives have a tendency to be more individualistic than the team member. And on another side manager may not like to work as a team as they are more determined to win in comparison to other individuals. Also, manager’s has a tendency to demonstrate superiority and regularly want to depend on themselves for all decisions.

Delegation: Ability to delegate work to subordinates is the main quality of a leader a manager should possess. The company ultimate goal is to have a global vision. The managers of the company have the worldwide vision and add to the business operation in a more comprehensive way. That being stated, the great managers are having the capacity to adequately delegate the everyday work of the business; particularly those that are more bureaucratic in nature, or are less explanatory and complicated.

Observing petty expenses and limiting borrowing

Having the capacity to designate does not just make a more proficient and compelling supervisor, however, it can create a more result oriented team. Giving co-workers obligations and responsibility influences them to feel more motivated and dedicated towards the company. While there are no particular characteristics related to having the capacity to delegate, it is not a quality that comes automatically to managers. Particularly the individuals who have a huge drive to succeed, they have a tendency to be more suspicious, doubtful, and less reliable (Raelin, 2011). The saying “in the event that is needed to be accomplished right now, do it without anyone else’s help” is very basic for the result driven manager, and they have a tendency to have the most inconvenience trusting others to go up against specific task and obligations.

According to me, an effective leader tries to bring great changes. These changes cannot be brought without playing risk in the market. Facing changes and coping with challenges is a primary task of a leader. A strong leader is very effective as h will always try to implement new approaches towards management and goal achievement. Effective leaders also recognize that success cannot be brought without facing failures. The attitude of a risk taking leader towards every challenge is positive and unique. Strong leadership can never happen if lead figure couldn’t care for its employees. Leaders should demonstrate a thinking state of mind about the mission, of their association. The care of every individual employee must take priority over everything else. At the point when a leader thinks about those they lead they indicate conduct that is reliably recognizing others. This sort of leader poses numerous inquiries and listens more than they talk. A helpful and caring leader wants the input and assessments of employees whom they lead. A visionary and effective leader always maintains contact with its colleagues while discussing and taking views.

Like I was much influenced by the way the political leaders use to lead our country. My ideal was Warren buffet and its traits which inspired me to always follow dream and passion, his principle which I liked the most is a leader should collect the information needed, in advance to make a decision comes and should stick to a deadline, as he considers any spare thinking and sitting as “thumb sucking”.

According to me, a commonly good leader does not bind their employees with their designation and power when they come to meet them. Effective leaders redirect consideration far from them and urge others to raise their point of view. As leaders are specialists in influencing others to feel safe and talk unhesitatingly, share their viewpoints and perspectives. They utilize their official presence to make an approachable management.

Being eager to be divergent

They either encourage the exchange to engage their co-workers to achieve a key conclusion or they do it without anyone else’s help. They concentrate on “getting things going” consistently – basic leadership practice that manages advance. Effective leaders have mastered the art of politicking and in this manner don’t waste their opportunity on issues that sustain growth. They know how to settle on 30 choices in 30 minutes. They are incredible communicators, and this is particularly genuine with regards to “execution desires.” In doing as such, they help their partners to remember the association’s centre value and statement of purpose – guaranteeing that their vision is legitimately transferred and actionable destinations are appropriately executed.

1. Discounting other’s emotions and perspective: Unsuccessful leader do not follow a value system. One cannot be great leader without demonstrating empathy towards others. This value system makes employees dejected and disrespect from them, as emotional intelligence skill relate a person to organization (Lunenburg, 2012).
2. Missing key organizational decision network: These types of leader or managers are generally confused and driving in name only (Ribiere, & Sitar, 2014). They by one means or another handled an initiative title, no doubt coincidentally, condition, timing or bias. They have almost no enthusiastic knowledge regarding self-awareness and hierarchical mindfulness.
3. Blaming others for the outcome: A good leader will generally accept the mistakes when things are going wrong and will appreciate others when things go right. It is actually a leader only responsible if things are not going as planned and culture of organization. Holding and appreciating employees for their above average performance is important to motivate them for working more efficiently.
4. Resolving conflicts: Sometimes leaders avoid dealing with conflict and problem occurring in organization. This shows a negative side of a leader that he is failing in providing feedback, duties and solutions to organization. due to avoidance conflicts grows to high level in organization and creating more difficulty the for organization to deal with. Thus a leader should be conflict resolver as well.

According to me, leadership is a function which is needed to practice at all levels of management. In the best level, it is critical for getting co-operation in the definition of plans and approaches. In the centre and lower level, it is required for interpretation and execution of plans and projects targeted by the organization. Management can be practiced through direction and guiding of the subordinates at the season of execution of plans. They are also the representatives of the organization because they to represent the issues and concern at seminars, conference, and meetings. His role starts from communicating the concern of organization to the general public (Gutiérrez, et al., 2011). He also integrates and reconciles his own goal with organizational goal. He also helps employees in integrating their efforts in achieving the organizational as well as personal objectives. This is done by the leader through motivation and influence.

 Cultural assumptions and practices also assume an important part in a leader’s personality. Worldwide leaders should be very thoughtful of the impact of culture on the thinking of own – and after that have capacity to go past that. They can’t constrain decisions and activities to reflect just their way of life. Leaders should be master at precisely understanding individuals and circumstances and after that modifying their practices in positive manner. External forces like government, organization, historical also impact the leader’s capacity to manage organization. Sometime a decision may be good for organization at some point in time but may not be ethical from government point of view thus a leader faces consequences for taking decision or not.  Some other complexity which comes in daily routine for a leader they are allocation of resources to departments, conflict between regional and head office, barriers of communication, delegating the work to deserving employee and many more difficulty. These create complexity in the role of a leader.

Accountability

1. The challenge of building up the significant skills, for example, time-administration, prioritization, key considering, basic leadership and getting up to speed with the employment to be more powerful at work. As this becomes a challenge in leadership for a manager to manage.
2. Despite the fact that leadership and administration both include supervising a group of workers, there is distinguish between the two, and first-time leaders may not generally acknowledge it (Piccolo, et al., 2010). They may feel that if they are fulfilling their objectives and hitting their financial plans, they are effectively driving. And in comparison leaders need to motivate their group, share the concern and provide guidance, not simply dealing with the financial plan.
3. Managers have the significant responsibility to be involved in every task of organization. The most difficult task is to hire right people for the right position. There goes a considerable amount of time and money to select a right person. Discovering and holding the correct worker can be troublesome in the short term, because of the steady increment popularity for multi-talented employees and growing number of the modern organization (Abernethy, Bouwens & Van Lent, 2010). It is natural that the connection between business and representative starts not when the worker begins work, but when the recruitment and selection period of the process. Numerous representatives have a positive or potentially negative state of mind towards their boss from the start.

Delegation: The best leader is one who has knowledge of picking good projects gets them done on time. An intelligent manager won’t decrease sacrifice his objectives. This can be effectively done by delegation. Delegating work to representatives and making them feel involved creates the opportunity for the organization as well employees to grow (Day, et al., 2014). In the case a manager delegates his duty; employees will feel more included and have greater chance to grow new abilities. Delegating will enable the manager to better focus on the objectives he has to accomplish for his organization. And as manager for a project, the responsibilities of final work will be in his hands only.

Motivation: An essential element of administration is to make willingness among the representatives to perform to the best of their capacities (Plowman, et al., 2007). Hence the part of a manager is to boost the enthusiasm for execution of workers in their occupations.

The creation of the feeling of responsibility amongst can be created with motivation only. Self-responsibility creates the sense of best utilization of resources like materials, machinery and much more (Hung, et al., 2011).

Living according to moral and value: Taking decisions with reference to morals and values can help manage to solve various problems. It leaves a manager with the bad image if he not accepting the same value for treating all employees. An ethical and effective leader should discuss and communicate the value and morals to be acceptable in an organization (Derue, et al., 2010). This trait was lacking in manager, as he was treating every employee on different values creating dissatisfaction amongst employee.

A perfect leader is not one who achieves best every time but he is one who learns from failure and mistakes. This trait helps a leader to face the difficult situation with ease. A strong leader is one who has the ability to improve its weak area and communicating it to the team. So that team does not make same mistakes and blunders. This trait also helps a manager to judge others from all points of view and lead the organization to heights (Ladkin, 2010). This trait was found lacking in my manager, as manager he was not ready to accept his mistakes which were happening in the daily practice of management.

Conclusion:

Leadership is the responsible for impacting the behavior of others. It is additionally characterized as the ability to impact a gathering towards the acknowledgment of an objective. Leaders are required to create future dreams, and to rouse the authoritative individuals to need to accomplish the dreams. It also implies distinctive things to various individuals and is a term around in a wide range of settings. Now and again it’s traded with the word ‘management’, and also referred to individuals at the top level of an organization to recognize them from all employees of organization.

Self-managing

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