JLBC Inspiring and encouraging

JLBC TAKING UP YOUR LEADERSHIP ROLE

JLBC Inspiring and encouraging

From how they formulate and express their overarching vision to the thought they put into everyday interactions—the glue of any team relationship—good leaders encourage and inspire others around them at every level of activity.

You are setting a good example.

One of the basic rules of leadership is that to inspire others you

must aspire to be a model of excellence yourself. Of course, your journey toward excellence will never end, but it will give you two vital qualities—the desire to learn and, in turn, that will lead to the humility of knowing how much more you have to learn.

Your role is about inspiring, and that starts with a clear vision for a better future, which you will need to communicate to your team daily through your words and actions:

JLBC How to inspire through your vision

• Make it clear to others that they have the capability and power to make a difference—that their unique

• attributes can help achieve the vision. Bring hope for the future to sustain people through change and adversity; if people feel overwhelmed and slow down, bring them back to the image with simple messages that show the

• next small steps forward.

Point out the progress made and signs of success on the way to fill people once again with confidence and the

• desire to go forward.

Praise new ideas and the courage

• demonstrated in new ventures. Keep team members stretched— one step ahead of what they

• thought they could do.

Keep positive: explain that most experiments that do not work are not failures—just feedback; turn setbacks into a positive impetus for change.

State your vision in highly favorable terms

Your role is about inspiring, starting with a clear vision for a better future.