[{"type":"vizyBlock","attrs":{"id":"vizy-block-uWsaVfK1Sl","enabled":true,"collapsed":false,"values":{"type":"type-0jFlVakMTB","content":{"fields":{"sectionHeight":"h-auto","backgroundColour":"bg-white","textBuilder":{"sortOrder":["new1"],"blocks":{"new1":{"type":"text","enabled":"1","fields":{"text":"Most of us have leadership potential, but not all of us are true leaders. Have you ever thought about what true leadership is? Let's take a look at how to inspire and motivate yourself and a team to follow your vision.\n\n##### **A vision**\n\nLeadership starts with vision. A survey by Harvard Business Review found that being forward-thinking is the attribute that most distinguishes leaders from non-leaders. The consensus is that envisioning exciting possibilities and sharing them with others is the most inspiring way to lead a team.\n\nGreat leaders, John Ryan wrote in Forbes, give real thought to the values, ideas and activities they’re most passionate about. These should be challenging to put in action, and success should only be reached by setting realistic, demanding goals and going after them relentlessly.\n\nWith the help of other engaged and talented men and women, a leader is born.\n\n##### **Balance vision and action**\n\nWhile your vision is the destination, action is how you get there. Creating a balance only happens when the directions or instructions to reach that vision are clear.\n\nA leader needs to understand their team and what motivates them. David Lavinsky wrote in Forbes that true leaders recognise talent and work with those with skills to complement their own, celebrating small victories with the team while staying focused on the big goal.\n\n##### **A personal statement**\n\nA useful personal leadership vision, focused on action and direction, is a compelling image of an achievable future. Stew Friedman suggested in the Harvard Business Review that to grow as a leader, you should compose your own personal leadership vision, drafted and practised until it’s true and inspiring.\n\nFriedman also recommended asking staff to do the same, building on the trust that comes from being aware of what really drives one another.\n\n“You’ll be better equipped to capitalise on a critical, often overlooked, aspect of diversity – the remarkable variety that exists in the aspirations of the people around you,” Friedman said.\n\n##### **Communicating your vision**\n\nKnowing what you want to accomplish may seem clear to you, but as Tanya Price wrote in Forbes, explaining and motivating others is a different story. Clearly and succinctly describing what you want done is important. If you can’t relate your vision to your team, you won’t all be working toward the same goal.\n\nCreating a productive work environment depends on clear communication. Your team will learn to trust and depend on you, and will be less hesitant to work harder.\n\n##### **Values and delegation**\n\nYour team is a reflection of yourself, and if you make honest and ethical behavior a key value, they'll follow suit.\n\nDelegating tasks is one of the most important skills you can develop for leadership. And the key to delegation is identifying the strengths of your team, and capitalising on them.\n\n##### **Confident and committed**\n\nPart of your job as a leader is to keep up your confidence and focus on the larger goal.\n\n“Remember, your team will take cues from you, so if you exude a level of calm damage control, your team will pick up on that feeling,” said Price.\n\nOf course, if you expect your team to work hard and produce quality results, you must lead by example. There’s no greater motivation than seeing hard work done at every level.\n\n##### **Leadership, not management**\n\nManagement is a set of processes, like planning, budgeting, staffing and problem-solving. That’s different to leadership, which is about taking a team or organisation into the future, finding opportunity, and producing useful change.\n\nWhile management is about attributes, leadership is about behaviour. Are you behaving like a leader?","textSize":"text-xl","textColour":"text-black"}}}},"buttons":"","sectionTitle":""}}}}}]