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  • What Types Of Leaders Are Companies Looking For?

    What Types Of Leaders Are Companies Looking For?

    Are You Good Enough To Work As A Leader? (Types Of Leaders)

    Does Leadership born as genetic or become later?

    It is not easy to find a satisfactory answer to this question as old as history.(Types Of Leaders)

    The changing characteristics of leadership over time make it difficult to answer this question.

    Today, real leaders are needed not only in the political field and business life but also in all kinds of institutions, including non-governmental organizations and sports clubs.

    Since strong criteria are not determined, leadership training either remains in words or the training given has descriptive features and cannot achieve its purpose.

    The determination to struggle, vision and ideals of true leadership have been a source of inspiration and mobilized the masses in every period of history.

    Know Your Business

    “Knowing your job” is not just about reading a lot and “collecting data”.

    The knowledge gained by reading is only useful for answering questions and “selling reason” when asked.

    It is not possible to learn to ride a bike or play the guitar by reading books.

    Our ancestors succinctly expressed this situation by saying, “Do not sting, the mind goes forty steps”.

    Being a Man/Woman

    “Being a man/woman” means having a strong personality and value system regardless of gender, not making any concessions under pressure, honesty and honesty, in other words, being one and the same.

    The most important emotion that a leader should protect himself/herself from is “arrogance”.

    It is not difficult for every person who stays alone and thinks for a while to feel that he is “a speck in the ocean”.

    But the power of power and self-importance breeds a sense of arrogance that has led many leaders to cut their branches.

    Maybe, The reason why arrogance is counted among the greatest sins in every religion is that it has devastating consequences for both oneself and those around him.

    Protecting Your Team

    “Protecting your team” is about “fidelity”.

    Those in power tend to see loyalty as a one-way street and expect it only from those around them.

    Many managers value the people they work with to the extent that they meet their own needs.

    Listening

    “Listening” is the most common deficiency in leaders.

    In general, leaders tend to tell more than to understand, and to talk more than to listen.

    They think that they know what they want to be told.

    Because their time is very short, they immediately take the floor and choose the way to share their superior ideas with the people around them.

    Listening well allows you to understand not only what people say, but also what they don’t say.

    It not only makes it possible to understand the other party but also reveals what to do and what to say.

    Decision and Determination

    One of the most important characteristics of a leader is that he can make the closest decision under pressure with little information.

    Postponing decisions and needing more information turns the decision from being a decision into a reaction to the situation that has occurred.

    It brings to mind the saying among the people that “after the car is overturned, there are many who show the way”.

  • Brilliant Leadership – Facts That Nobody Told You

    Brilliant Leadership – Facts That Nobody Told You

    Leadership skills come as %30 genetic and other %70 can develop later with special techniques (Brilliant Leadership)

    During my business career, I’ve got over forty Professional Training in Leadership, Project & Sales Management with special support from executive coaches. (Brilliant Leadership)

    Today, I’ve decided to share my old learning notes to develop your professional skills.

    This is the leadership series and I’ve prepared serial articles similar to this.

    I hope this article helps everyone who needs to develop their skills for business and also private life.

    Steps and intellectual preparations that can be followed individually;

    ✓ Ask yourself these questions;

    ✓ Considering my successful and unsuccessful negotiations, what did I do differently?

    ✓ Am I biased in negotiations? Can I look at it from both perspectives? Am I just taking a step back?

    ✓ Keep regular notes with a “keep doing/do more” analysis of opportunities to influence your problems, your initiatives, your results.

    ✓ After listening to the other person, get in the habit of briefly summarizing what was said to confirm whether you understood correctly.

    ✓ Make an appointment with someone you have trouble communicating with, arrange a meeting, talk about the sources of your problems and how you can resolve them.

    ✓ Fulfil your promises on time. Where you realize you cannot meet the time commitments, call the people you promised to explain the reasons and set a new date together.

    ✓ Organize periodic meetings with your collaborators to ensure a regular flow of information.

    ✓ Offer more than one alternative while convincing the other person.

    ✓ When persuading a group, consider the dynamics of the group and the differences of group members.

    ✓ Demonstrate concretely the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative.

    ✓ Prepare tables comparing alternatives.

    ✓ Develop alternative approaches by coming together with relevant people in other units so that customer needs can be met in the long term.

    ✓ Get detailed information about the person and institution to be negotiated before the negotiation.

    ✓ Review the concessions you can make before negotiating to ensure that both sides win in the negotiation process.

    ✓ Research and apply different techniques used in problem-solving and decision making.

    ✓ Develop solution alternatives by brainstorming by forming a team for one of the important problems you encounter. Apply the best solution by performing a benefit-harm analysis for each alternative.

    ✓ Observe a colleague or manager you find success in problem-solving and decision making. Suggest to your manager to work with him on a temporary basis if necessary.

    ✓ In order to identify the obstacles you may encounter in your studies, Review your past studies and the problems you have experienced during these studies.

    ✓ Gather information about potential problems you may encounter in the work.

    ✓ You will carry out by meeting with the relevant people.

    ✓ Develop and quickly implement prevention plans to prevent these problems from occurring.

    ✓ Before deciding, get together with people who will be affected or contribute to the decisions and shape your decisions in line with the opinions you receive from them.

    ✓ Give timely feedback on problems you have difficulty solving.

    ✓ Ask for feedback on a decision you made or the method you used to solve a problem.

    ✓ Talk to your manager and teammates about a problem that you can’t make the right decision, timing or solving correctly, and agree on what should be done.

    ✓ In the distribution of responsibility and work within the team, remember the criteria of situational leadership and consider the experience and competence levels of your employees.

    ✓ Assign your employee to a subject that you will determine. Let him take the initiative and make decisions in possible situations.

    ✓ Following the issue under the responsibility of the employee, after any mistake, ask questions about the criteria that caused the error and make further notifications so that the error does not recur.

    ✓ Ask coaching questions and provide feedback on situations/events to support development with a coaching-style managerial mindset.

    ✓ Take time for yourself to work on coaching questions.