VIDEO OF THE MONTH: Being Comfortable with Failure with Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek is an unshakable optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together.
ARTICLE OF THE MONTH: Leadership Is Not a Position Or a Title, It is Action and Example by Ojus Sharma
Many people assume that leadership is all about titles, positions, money, and fame. However, leadership is not an actual position or title. In fact, it is about the action you take and the example you set for others. Leadership is the ability to influence others; it’s about the impact you have on others.
The changing face of leadership
The definition of leadership is evolving in every two years. If earlier it was about authority and dominance, it’s more about collaboration and teamwork nowadays.
With the exponential increase in the number of millennial workers, they are disrupting the traditional leadership style and want to work under leaders who give them enough opportunities to lead themselves.
According to asurvey conductedby Virtuali and Work Place Trends, nearly 50% of workers said that they believe leadership is the empowerment of others and have high expectations from their leaders. In fact, they don’t even mind leaving a job if the leader fails to meet their expectations. The daringness is definitely calling for some serious leadership change in today’s day and age.
You’re busy every day doing your scheduled jobs, learning new ones, and switching off to other ones that come up suddenly and have to be done right away.
There’s always something to do.
But every now and then there’s one more thing you are called upon to do, and it’s an important one: you need to teach someone else how to do something that you know how to do. Yes, you’re called upon to be a teacher. You may feel confident when you do it, or maybe not, but take heart. It’s easier than you think because 1) you don’t have to be a college professor to teach someone how to do something and 2) there’s a simple four-step process of communicating information to a coworker in a limited amount of time. We call it “training on the fly.”