Why people are your greatest asset

Leadership growth

Personal growth is essential for your success as a leader. When you increase your leadership skills, you get better results. One of the reasons is because you attract better leaders around you.

Leaders will develop their people. That is why you get more than a 20% increase in the company’s result if you build your leadership skills from a 7 to an 8.

Another example is in recruiting. A leader with a level 8 in leadership skill will recruit leaders of level 7. However, if the leader is a 4, he will recruit a 1.

It is a fact that leaders with lower leadership skills always surround themselves with followers. Consequently, the overall result will be down due to high turnover, low engagement, and lack of teamwork or cooperation.

Leaders who develop followers want to be needed. They only lift themselves. Leaders who develop leaders lift others and want to be succeeded.

When you decide to lift people and develop new leaders, you should focus your attention on their strengths. Invest time with them and help them to become better leaders. If you support the best 20%, you will get an 80% return. On the other hand, if you focus on the bottom 20%, you will get a 20% return even if they level their game.

Therefore, chose whom you are mentoring and don’t send ducks to eagle-school.

If you take over a management team, make sure that the people you lead have the right mindset and are willing to grow themselves. If not, you have to replace those who are not ready to grow.

Influence is the foundation of leadership.

Influence is the foundation of leadership, and the more influence you have, the more people will follow you. Even though you might have a leadership position, the true leaders could be among the people you lead.

As the positional leader, your job is to find out who is the most influential person in the team and know them. If you gain their trust and commitment, the rest of the team will follow.

Speaking from my experience as a leader, I would say that the specialist can often be the company’s informal leaders. They don’t have a…