Effective Leadership and its Importance
Effective leadership is described as the capacity to influence followers and collaborate with them to achieve a specific goal. A good leader stimulates his staff and assists them in carrying out a company's purpose in order to achieve the company's or organization's vision. Leadership abilities are most tested when the leader's subordinates face difficult situations. The leader has the option of ignoring the juniors and living stress-free, or walking beside them during such moments. Such exams can tell the difference between a good leader and a bad one. Yet, decisions have repercussions. J. Apker (2013).
Transforming Challenges into Strengths
An effective leader uses adversity to demonstrate his distinctive leadership abilities. Transforming challenges to great strengths is a critical virtue for any leader who aspires to scale high in the administration industry. Qualities of a good leader are transparency, passion, integrity, innovation, confidence, focus, inspiration, focused among others. However, the field is very challenging. For one to make it to the top level leadership, they have to overcome many minor and major challenges. (Sylvester, K. 2016).
Great Leaders Embrace Difficult Times
From the experiences of great leaders globally, it has been established that those leaders who have gone through tough moments make great leaders. Science has proven that difficult times has always made managers better. Hard times are avenues to demonstrating or improving management skills. Managers need extra courage to make sound decisions and ensure that they manage the pressure that comes along with good control. Great leaders don't move with the wave, but they stand for what is right and recommendable for all. No matter what it costs. Exploring sound options that are innovative and motivating their coworkers is the way through harsh conditions. (Chin, J. L., & Trimble, J. E. 2015).
Meeting Employees' Needs
Great managers should address the needs of their employees, ranging from housing, transport, medical covers, insurance, conducive retirement plans, etc. provision of basic needs and the benefits listed above might not sound essential to less competent managers. Such small efforts can highly motivate workers and miraculously lead to increased personal output, contributing to the overall performance of the company hence heightened profitability. Other kind gestures, like being there with the family of your employees when facing a family problem, losing their family members, visiting the families of your employees, asking about their spouses and children, sending Christmas cards, sending congratulatory messages among others attach the employees to the manager. They don't feel left out, but they feel like a family. Great managers are supposed to be friends or partners with employees.
Company Image and Customer Satisfaction
People are always watching the image of companies through the conduct of employees and managers, even if no one tends to talk about it. Managers carry with them the images of their companies. Action taken by a manager may either create a desire in public to be identified with the company or detach themselves from the company. Company image significantly influences customer choice and loyalty. Customers of a company are major determinants of the level of profitability, which is the common index of growth.
Empathy and Compassion as Key Attributes
The combination of efficient internal management skills and winning the trust of an external audience are the predictors of a company's performance. (Brunner-Sperdin, A. 2017) When employees are shown empathy, they tend to increase their enthusiasm and affinity to work hence increasing output. Understanding employee's challenges, weaknesses, and strengths are key. Empathy creates a vibrant support mechanism, enabling workers to deliver their best.
Compassion for Conflict Resolution
Marketing is the most primary activity in any organization. Most leaders, if not all, are mostly concerned on how to increase their market share. Therefore they tend to incorporate total member involvement in the marketing strategy. An employee who has a functional relationship with his manager will be an excellent ambassador for the company to the public. This has been en effective marketing strategy for many leaders, according to prevailing statistics.
The Importance of Compassion and Empathy
Compassion also contributes significantly to conflict resolution. Humans are weak in nature and are bound to cause conflict. Conflict resolution becomes easier when the manager has a personal relationship with his workers. Confident and intellect managers are known for good relationship management skills. When compassion is made the principle company culture, stress management will be much easier.
Empathy, Compassion, and Company Success
There exists a strong positive correlation between compassion, company success, and customer satisfaction. General company success always takes us back to empathy and compassion among leaders, among other attributes of good leadership. Modern workers have shifted their demands from favorable money compensation to a sense of connection to the management. Leadership empathy and compassion send a very strong message to the workers, consequently to the public. (Kohler, R. 2016).
Conclusion
In conclusion, the whole concept of good leadership or management is to rise and shine during tough moments, and also protect your juniors and walk with them all the way. For leaders to be aware of what the workers feel are going through, they need to be empathetic and compassionate. Such attributes enhance employee confidence, leading to increased production and increased profitability as a final result. It is a unique technique that can be utilized by leaders to stand out, especially now that society is rotten. This will determine the collective success of businesses.
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