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The role of leaders is to inspire and enable people to achieve common goals while earning their respect, trust and support.
Clarify and confirm roles, responsibilities, quality standards, authority, ground rules and expectations. Make sure that everyone is “singing off of the same song sheet.”
Be authentic Come across as genuine, sincere, open, trusting and trustworthy; self-assured without being conceited.
Passion If you don’t have passion for something, how can you foster it in the people you lead? Passion is an intense, compelling emotional drive, “fire in your belly,” for something you believe in. It cannot be feigned or bought. It has to be authentic. It is a quality of the heart that emanates from your values and beliefs. It is the application of your purpose in life to a goal with which you identify strongly. With passion, you conquer the obstacles in your path. When you have passion for your pursuit, other people who share your values, beliefs and goals want to join you.
Do you really need passion to be a leader? Yes! Leadership is the art of inspiring and enabling people to perform at their best to achieve a common goal. It is not just a care-taking function. It is getting them to buy in to a vision of a better future and leading them on a journey to the goal. … Passion separates the extraordinary from the ordinary.