Becoming A Leader

February 17th, 2015

Becoming a leader, chief, manager or head of any organization, foundation, community, company or any kind of group needs more than only personal talent to handle every situation solemnly alone but most importantly able to put people and organize most of the source he has on his group to manage challenge and solve problem. 

too many people think that to be a boss, someone has to be so clever and smart, knowledgeable in his field, no no.. i can say that most urgently he is able to be a good, professional, objective and visioned team player.

Company (as I face now) is a place where a group of people work together for some similar purposes. we see it as Company goals. the manager, staffs, stakeholders, government, society, are working together to create the most possible success to be achieved. there is no possible condition where a company becoming good ONLY because of the boss is great or ONLY because the government supports it so much, or or.. ONLY because the staffs are cohesive, a bunch of docile. 

Leader is someone who is A ROLE MODEL for the other staff. 

to be respected, a leader have to behave, talk and be productive, as the way he wants his staff doing so. It is important that people understand being a boss is not exclusively make him become a jerk, who can do anything he wants, who can act anyway he likes,

But being a boss, mean he is having a high responsibility to manage the group  of people as he has a leader figure who are capable in terms of knowledge and has great example in terms of manner. Act professionally. though he may be the boss, he needs to be cordial to all of his employees. he should also still meet the basic standards of professionalism such as, dressing appropriately, coming to work and meetings on time and communicate in professional manner and language.

Talk about experience on work field may be a good chance to show to other staffs why he is there as the boss. But it does not mean he is okay to be big mouth about all those experience. Most people love to have an admirable boss but not the cocky one. Without showing off, let your employees understand how long you've been in the business and what you have achieved while you were there. Not only will they have a better understanding of why you're sitting in the boss' chair, but they'll be more excited to be a part of your team and will admire you.

Listen to people. A leader should not accuse his team of talking back and yell at them when they are only explaining what they did. Listen to people's ideas and apply plausible ones. Care about people's desires and concerns and does what he can to help make things better.

People are not children. They will react badly when they feel they are treated unfairly or are doing the best they can and he keeps demanding more. They will be angry and frustrated. The best thing to do at this point is apologize or accept the person for who they are.

Do not yell at people in public and refrain from yelling at them at all.
Most people do not deserve this treatment and it is highly unprofessional and wrong. If someone does something wrong, point it out to them and do not be overly pushy with what you want.

All those things above are inspired by one phase of my carrier journey working in a company. it was very frustrating to work with someone who was not only arrogant, but also unprofessional_such as bringing his private business into office and invite private guest who has nothing to do with company_and the most of all, he loved to use company benefit for his individual needs.