There is a difference between being just a leader and being a successful leader. Not everyone has leadership qualities and not every leader goes on to be successful.
It’s the dream of every leader to be successful and achieve certain heights. Leadership is highly important and any organisation, team, institution, location or unit without a leader would most likely suffer from anarchy.
There are certain qualities that mark the achievements of a true successful leader, and these six qualities below shows that a leader was or is actually successful.
1. RESULTS
First and foremost, every leader has results or goals to achieve, and this is mostly what’s used to judge whether a leader was actually successful. Whether you are the leader of a country, leader of a football team, leader of an organisation or any institution, results is the major yardstick that would be used to hail or criticise your leadership.
So every successful leader has to be result oriented.
2. MOTIVATION
Motivation is highly important if a team is going to be successful. For a leader to be successful, he has to motivate and inspire his followers or team to achieve set goals. Without motivation, success is almost always a far cry.
3. EARN HIS TEAM’S TRUST
Any leader who isn’t trusted by his team can never win their respect — and when the team doesn’t have that respect for the leader, success becomes highly unachievable.
4. BUILD TEAMWORK
Teamwork is another important characteristic of a successful team. Any team without teamwork would definitely be in chaos. It’s the duty of the leader to build teamwork in the team. Any leader who can build teamwork can certainly be branded as a successful one.
5. HELPS THE INDIVIDUALS
Without the individuals that make up a team, there would be no leader. It’s the duty of the leader to help the individual units or even persons to be better. Any leader that makes his followers better is definitely a successful leader.
6. UNIFIED CAMP
Unity is highly necessary if a leader is going to be successful. For success to be attainable, there has to be more of understanding and less of friction and conflicts. It’s the duty of a leader to build a unified team. Any leader that achieves this is a successful one.
Any leader that has achieved these six tips mentioned above can be called a highly successful leader.
Are you a leader? What can you say your achievements were?
Jake