Leadership now becomes more open, cross-disciplinary, influential and innovative to drive transformative changes globally and collaboratively.
There are leadership opportunities at any given point in time where people congregate to achieve a goal. Regardless how you categorize leadership, what keeps leaders successful cross-functional/industrial borders, cross-geographical territories, or cross-generational differences, is their vision to perceive the better future, their empathy to understand the world profoundly, their competency to lead proactively, and their resilience to fail over, lead forward smoothly.
Authenticity: Being authentic is defined as being real or genuine, discovering your leadership strength and uniqueness, being yourself. Authenticity is perhaps the prerequisite for character development and defining your true purpose as a leader to ponder why you want to lead and what you can bring up to the table. It is a helpful instrument to guide yourself toward the tough journey continuously through lots of challenges to test your character. Being authentic develops professional confidence, encourages intellectual curiosity, and enables individuals to release creative energy: When you are authentic, keep minds flowing, release the positive energy, you can share fresh insight and lead innovatively.
Inclusiveness: The key to business success is the inclusion of employees and satisfaction of customers. Employee Inclusion = Engagement, Retention, Loyalty, and Productivity. Inclusion strategy is all about engagement, involving everyone in the organization with friendly bondage, respect, truthfulness, with a view to all partners being a brand ambassador. Great leaders build an inclusive, ethical and justifiable working environment in which people are inspired to grow and use their talent to make a difference. Inclusive leaders recognize the gifts that all people have and are willing to share the leadership role; support people and also stretch them to live to their full potential.
Professionalism: The more complex our world becomes, the higher professionalism and more complex skill-sets we need to practice varying professional works. The professionals demonstrate the right attitude, talent and skill sets to be heading in a professional direction. Professional leaders present the right mixture of competence, knowledge, and emotional excellence to make sound judgment, bring wisdom to the workplace, and solve problems effectively. In the hyper-connected global business world, professional leaders establish and follow a set of commonly agreeable principles to fit global circumstances, present global fitting mindsets, courtesy, skills, enriched knowledge, cultural empathy, in order to accomplish work effectively.
Empathy: Empathy is the power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person's thoughts, feelings, perceptions. Empathy conveys respect and true understanding, which is crucial in the binding of peer-to-peer relationship, connecting the minds and touching the hearts. Empathetic leadership with the cognitive differences is needed in today’s dynamic working environment and diversified workforces. From leadership perspective, if you can understand how people think, respond and behave, what they desire and what their fears are, you are on the right track to gain their support.
Learning agility: The pervasive information growth and emergent collaboration platforms & tools means "reduced the time to knowledge." Growth mindset and learning agility are not “nice to have,” but must have professional quality. People and organizations could now learn faster in a time, some argue that the only sustainable advantage is to learn faster than your competition. Business leaders and professionals with learning plasticity are able to gain fresh knowledge, have an in-depth understanding of cause and effect of many critical issues, adjust their thinking processes according to changes in its environment, for solving problems effectively.
Resilience: Resilience indicates people can undergo high dynamic stress and they are able to recover smoothly to their original situation without much degradation of themselves. It’s about regaining one's footing which could be bouncing back, forwards or restructuring one’s life integrating the change in some way that works. People have different levels of emotional intelligence, some are more resilient, they face the difficulty, and stand again, with survival's mentality; some are more vulnerable; few might face difficulties, bounce back and forward, learn lessons from it, and transform into a rock solid character.
Leadership is about direction, and progressive change. Both leadership and change have altered and will continue to do especially nowadays we are stepping into the era of people-centricity. There are many indicators to assess the intrinsic capacity of leadership such as cognitive abilities and styles, professional attitude and apititude, interdisciplinary knowledge, capability to change, emotional intelligence, etc. Leadership now becomes more open, cross-disciplinary, influential and innovative to drive transformative changes globally and collaboratively.
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