Who wants to be a respected business leader? Every business leader does. However, how do you get the respect from your colleagues and employees?
Many business leaders understand that respect draws productivity and good working environment of the company. Yet, an expert and author on Breakthrough Communications, Global Human Resources, and Talent Development and a Senior Partner at Partners in Leadership, Mattson Newell, indicates that business leaders tend to fall while trying to achieve good leadership.
Respect equals leadership and leadership does not equal dictatorship. With this in mind, respect and leadership do not simply fully develop in one night. They are not something that you get by ordering your employees to respect you. Instead, it grows naturally from time to time.
With that being said, how to be a naturally respected business leader? Here are several things you can pay attention to.
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Listen and Compromise
Good business leaders listen more rather than talk more. This is so because they can acquire insights on how their employees’ minds work and what they feel about their work. Also, they learn to compromise when their employees do not meet the expectations at work. Rather than complaining, good business leaders try to find a solution together with their employees.
Act
Action speaks louder than words. In leadership, this is true. Most of your employees will not get impressed by the way you talk. Instead, the ways you solve a problem, react over something, and deal with your tasks reflect your characteristics. This, in addition, impresses your employees.
Think and Consider
Good business leaders never stop to think over their business problems and future plans. Thinking, therefore, is important so long as you stay at your vision. Thus, good business leaders should always have answers to every problem related to business. However, the answer or decision should not always come from you. Instead, considering your employees opinion helps because usually they have rational solutions to the problems. Respect follows when you respect others.
Crave for Knowledge
Good business leaders always want to learn. They understand that no one is perfect and this includes them. Hence, they always want to learn something new, whether it is pertinent to business or others. In other words, they make a novel discovery every day. More importantly, by craving for knowledge, there would be a high possibility that good business leaders will be humble enough to learn from their employees as well.
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