HABILIDADES PARA LLEGAR A SER UN BUEN LIDER

Leadership is a crucial component of any job no matter what it is there’s always a need for it.  A leader must have the qualities mentioned on the chapter; at least most of them while the rest can be improve with time. I’m one of those that believes that not everyone can be leader, although we can develop the qualities in a leader I don’t think that one can be made if that individual does the not have the personality traits required. A leader must a have the availability to inspire, provide support and most important deal with different types of personalities.

Being a leader is not easy by any means, it’s crucial that a leader poses the arsenal of qualities to successfully carry personnel out. There are nine crucial characteristics a leader must pose, but in my opinion some are more important than others because in my team at work we focus on certain traits for our manager to have. We look for confidence, enthusiasm, encouragement, sense of humor and trust. Our manager is our direct leader and we have to make sure he can help us out whenever a conflict presents or we have to get guidance from him. Sometimes the whole team gets stressed out or we just have our head down. In these situations is when those characteristics come into play, thankfully most of the time he has been able to turn our negatives though into positive thoughts.

There are several leaders I have worked with, and most of them have made a positive impact on my professional career. I admired my current Unit manager, I believe he has all of the qualities the book mentions although a few a more well develop than others. He possesses a great sense of humor, self confidence, intelligence, passion, enthusiasm and most important a great deal of knowledge about the job. An important he has is that his social skills are well develop, I personally have the confidence to approach him at any time, and he will always pay attention and work with no matter what’s brought to him. I have been a leader in every job I’ve had, as result I believe I have the potential to be a great leader whenever my name gets called up. I do admit I also have my fair share of qualities to work on, but nothing that can’t be develop.

I always look for the good and bad qualities a manager has, in fact I’m sort of a leader with in my team. I have gained the trust of my teammates; therefore when they have a problem and my manager is not there or they simply don’t feel comfortable with something that my manager is not doing they approached me to give me feedback. I take mental notes about what they tell me, because I can the times my manager is gone I’m the one who has to take on the role. Doing so helped a lot for the last three months in which we had a manager sent to a different department, and we had to wait of manager to go through the training phase of the job. I was able to get good feedback from team when they were asked about my performance. I was also given feedback on different aspects of my leadership which I had to improve on, which I go to work on them right away.