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Understanding Leadership What is Leadership? Understand how to lead better

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Understanding

Leadership

What is Leadership?Understand how to lead

better

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

“-Jon Quincy Adams

What’s this all about?

A leader is described as someone who has authority to tell a group what to do

This is far from the truth!

A leader is someone who’s actions inspire someone else’s and influences their actions.

Drew Dudley defines leadership as the everyday act of improving each other’s lives.

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” “

-Warren Bennis

But how can you achieve this?

Leadership isn’t about how successful the leader is, but how loyal, motivated and successful their team is.

Through Transformational

Leadership.

Which is broken down into 4 steps…

Create a VisionWhat are your ambitions for your business? 1.

Motivate your people

Get them excited and on board 2.

Delivery of VisionManaging your team in order to work on the delivery of

the vision 3.

Coaching and Development

Putting the needs of your team first and developing their skills can create trust and

respect.4.

“-Ken Kesey

“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go.

You lead by going to that place and making a case.”

Thanks for viewing!

This SlideShare was created by Computer-eyez, A leading Outsource IT support in the

South-East of England.

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