Becoming an Effective Leader - Continued

Don’t try to be someone or something that you are not. If you are not the overly pushy type, quit trying to be. If your employees are not working up to par, give them something to work towards and for without having to stand over them and push them along. Find what their motivation is and use that to get them to work more and more efficiently without the worry of having to be too pushy to get the job done right and on time.

Everyone is different, and from different homes, different religions and different political views. In being an effective leader you must also realize that everyone has different views so you should not bring your religion, political views and such into a position that effects the employees or others in the group if they don’t want it to be there. For example, you are passionate about a person who is up for election. While discussing this can be acceptable, don’t expect that everyone on your team or in your employ is going to feel the same about it. Keep a difference between discussing and becoming overbearing. 

To be an effective leader in the work place, there is one saying that you are not going to be able to take with you to the top. The old saying about do for others as you would want – well you can’t give and supply everything to your employees and still expect them to do a job that you would expect. If your employees had everything that they ever wanted, they have no motivation to continue working and working hard. Keep giving employees and those you are leading bits of what they need, whether monetary, or physical things, but little at a time. For example, if you were to give everyone a five dollar an hour raise, what is going to make them want to work any harder for that next raise when they will be expecting another five dollar a hour raise?

When you take your leadership roles more to heart, listen, delegate and learn to trust others, your leadership abilities are going to earn you the trust and respect of those who are working with and for you.