MANAGERIAL & LEADERSHIP SKILLS - 2

Management and leadership are both important, as leadership complements management, it doesn’t replace it.

“Throughout life, we will be called to play many roles. Two of the most important work roles relate to that of leader and manager.”

“Some leaders cannot manage - some managers cannot lead” You need a solid balance of both management and leadership skills to reach your greatest potential.”

Common Activities of Managers focuses more on:
Planning
Organizing,
Controlling
Coordinating
Directing
Resource use
Time management
Logistics and the supply chain
Finance and money management
Budgeting
Strategy
Decision Making
Problem Solving

Leader’s focus more on:

Vision
Inspiration
Persuasion
Motivation
Relationships
Counseling
Coaching
Teaching
Team work
Listening

Here are some key points The Manager maintain the status quo, the Leader promotes change:-

The Manager accepts the status quo, the Leader challenges it

The Manager administers, the Leaders innovates

The Manager is a copy, the Leader is an original

The Manager focuses on systems and structure, the Leader focuses on people

The Manager relies on control, the Leader inspires trust

The Manager has a short-range view, the Leader has a long-range perspective

The Manager ask how and when, the Leader asks what and why

The Manager has their eyes on the bottom line, the Leader has theirs on the horizon

The Manager imitates, the Leader originates

The Manager is the classis good soldier, the Leader is his own person

The Manager does things right, the Leader does the right things

I’ve learned as a manager, as well as an employee having a manager, that most people do not want to be managed, they want to be led! If you want to manage someone, you have to be able to manage yourself. You can’t lead someone if you cannot manage yourself.

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10 Things Authentic Leaders Do ….!

Authentic leadership is all about being the person you know in your heart you have always been destined to. Authentic leadership does not come from your title or from the size of your paycheck. Instead, the form of leadership comes from your being and the person that you are.

Here are 10 things that authentic leaders do on a regular basis:

1. They speak their truth:
Speaking truth is simply about being clear. Being honest and being authentic.

2. They lead from the heart:
Business is about people…..Leadership is about people, they spend there time in developing people around them. They are like the sun, the sun gives away all it has to the plants and the trees, but in return the plants and the trees always grow towards the sun.

3. They have rich moral fiber:
They walk their talk and are aligned with their core values.

4. They are courageous:
It takes lot of courage to go against the crowd. Authentic leadership is all about taking the road less traveled and doing, not what is easy, but what is right.

5. They build teams and create communities:
In the new age of work, employees seek their sense of community and connection from the workplace. Authentic leaders create workplaces that foster human linkages and lasting friendships.

6. They deepen themselves:
The job of a leader is to go deep. They know there weaknesses and play to there strengths.

7. They are dreamers:
They spend a lot of time with their eyes closed creating blueprints and fantasies that leads to better products, better services, better workplaces and deeper values. How often do you close your eyes and dream?

8. They care for themselves:
You can’t do great things at work if you don’t feel good. Authentic leaders eat well, excersie and care for the templates that are their bodies.

9. They commit to excellence rather than perfection:
No human being is perfect. Every single one of us is a work in progress. Authentic leaders commit themselves to excellence in everything that they do.

10. They leave a legacy:
Authentic leaders are constantly building their legacies by adding deep value to everyone that they deal with and leaving the world a better place in the process.

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KUNAL BHASIN

“LEADERSHIP SKILLS : ACTIVE LISTENING “

In our active world of communication one cannot afford to exclude the art of listening. One needs to actively listen and correctly understand the all messages form all group members.

Active listening is the active pursuit of understanding what the other person is saying and feeling. In active listening the receiver tries to understand what the sender is feeling and what the message means.

Important characteristics of a good listener:

Be There:
Be present in the heart, mind and spirit with the person. You need to hear what he/she has to say. If you don’t have the time, of don’t want to listen, wait until you do.

Accept:
Accept the person as she/he is without judgment or reservation or putting the person in a mental box or category, even though she/he is very different from you.

Trust:
Trust the person’s ability to handle his/her own feelings, work through them, and find solutions to his/her own problems.

Listen:
Don’t plan what you are going to say. Don’t think of how you can interrupt. Don’t think of how to solve the problem, how to console what the person should do . Don’t think to struggle or react …..Only listen !

Keep out of it:
Keep yourself removed. Keep objective. Don’t intrude physically, verbally, and mentally, keep quite.

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KUNAL BHASIN

“Guideposts – Turning defeat into Victory”

The Difference btw success and failure is found in one’s attitude towards setbacks, handicaps, discouragements and other disappointing situations.


Five Guidelines to help turn defeat into victory are:


I)Study setbacks to pave your way to success. When you loose, and then go on to win next time.


II) Have the courage to be your own constructive critic. Seek out your faults and weaknesses and then go on to correct them. This makes you a professional.


III) Stop blaming luck, research setback find out what went wrong. Remember blaming luck never got anyone where he wanted to go.


IV) Blend persistence with experimentation stay with your goal but don’t beat your head against a stone wall. Try new approaches experiments.

V) Remember, there is a good side in every situation find it! See the good side and whip discouragement.

Kunal Bhasin

THE POWER OF PRECISION

We can all remember moment’s when some one spoke with so much force and precision and romance that the words stayed with us forever.

“Words are the most powerful drug used by MANKIND”

If we study successful people, then we can discover one of the most common attribute is the communication skills. A manager has to manage information to be successful, he also needs to get into the heart of information rapidly and communicating to others what they have learned. They also tended to use key phrases and words that conveyed their most important ideas with great precision.

The objective of this article is to learn how to communicate with more precision and effectiveness then you have ever had before. This helps people to get whatever they want, remember words can be walls as well as bridges. There are 5 guidelines for asking intelligently and precisely.

1.) Ask Specifically:

You must describe what you need why you need and by whom you need it, both to YOURSELF and to someone else.

2.) Ask someone who can help you :

Anything you want – a better relationship, job, a smarter program for investing your money, its not enough to ask specifically, you must ask specifically of someone who has the resources – the knowledge, the capital, the sensitivity, on the business experience.

3.) Ask with focused, congruent belief:

If you aren’t convinced about what you’re asking for, how can anyone else be? So when you ask, do it with absolute conviction express that in your words and your physiology.


4.) Create value for the person you’re asking:

Don’t just ask and expect someone to give you something. Figure out how can help him first.

5.) Ask until you get what you want:

That doesn’t mean asking the same person .It doesn’t mean asking in precisely the same way. So when you ask, you have to change and adjust until you achieve what you want when you study the lives of successful people, you’ll find over and over again that they kept asking, kept trying changing – because they knew that sooner or later they would find someone who could satisfy their needs.

“You could ask, what prevents me from doing this now? And thereby become clear about what specifically you need to change”. In any situation, no matter how dismal, there’s a desirable outcome to be achieved. Your goal should be to change direction towards that outcome and away from the problem.

Do this by asking the right questions. There are any numbers of them. In NLP they ‘re referred to as outcome questions”. I will let you know about NLP in my future articles, anyways the outcome questions I was referring to are like this.

“What do I want?”
“What is the objective?”
“What am I here for?”
“What do I want from you?”
“What do I want from me?”

Remember your communication skills should reflect feedback, nor failure. If you are putting together a jigsaw puzzle and a piece doesn’t fits, you don’t usually take that as failure and stop working on the puzzle. You take it as feedback and try another piece that looks more promising. It’s to your advantage to use the same general rule in your life as well.

KUNAL BHASIN
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