" You cannot give credibility to people without a record of achievements'-Ken Nissely

Hello my friends and how are we doing this fine day. Today is a great day because it looks a bit cool but clear and great to perhaps do a little traveling. I was just involved in a leadership seminar which was awesome and many questions were asked regarding leadership. One question that was asked was: How do we as staff know we have a leader in  place? My friends you have to understand that some leaders were in the room as well who operate this organization and knowing this myself was crazy but hey! they asked me to come and I told them ahead of time that these type of questions could be asked and to be prepared.

Here is my answer. I stated to the people that asked this question that in order to be able to have and know a leader is in place it would have to be someone that show passion towards people, someone who can inspire the people to follow the vision of the organization and someone who stands by them regards of good or bad choices.Leaders need to have an understanding of their staff in order to have expectations met in any organization due to this issue many leaders will fail.Leadership is not about knowing all the new technology that has reached corporations or about how good they are with paperwork.

People have to believe that the leaders they are to follow have the competency to guide people in the right direction and be someone who believes in their abilities to do the right thing. people must see the leader as being capable and somewhat effective. I believe Ken Nissely of James Expressions put it, " You cannot give credibility to people without a record of achievements'

Then I was asked what that meant exactly. Well I said it means that if a person is in a position of leadership and only leads to what they think and believe is leadership in ways such as "My way or the highway" in other words leads by power of position and not show passion and compassion to people then my friends that is no leader that is a person who somehow reached the top perhaps with good intentions but lost their way throughout the years or simply was not competent.

I have to say that in today's world of business it is becoming well known that the generalist manager and or leader is coming to a close specially in the knowledge of different industries. I see and notice many leaders believe that they are doing the right thing when in fact they are bringing down morale and affecting the organization in so many ways. I tell leaders that operate an organization where services are given may have very little contact with actual clients but in order to be a good leader he/she must have the competency to be a great consultant in that industry.

A leaders must be able not only to show people they can lead them but also to inspire them to reach their potential and also show ways to encourage them during hard times.I find that when people know that their leaders has no credibility or little credibility what happens is the following;

They will do great work when they are watched closely. people are only motivated when money is involved or used as an incentive.They will also react to new policies in a very slow way because they feel unsupported and the big one! unappreciated!.

One thing that most leaders fail to understand is that there is a big difference between having people follow you and receiving support then giving orders from a point of view of the position a person holds
.Maureen Fries says that "Leadership is getting people to look beyond their own job description for ways to improve and challenge the process".