When a leader agrees to do something, they do it. People will believe you for you are the man of your words. When you follow through on your commitments, people take you seriously. Take responsibilities for your own life for you are the one who’s in charge of your life.
Leaders do not need to be reminded, they take the responsibility. If somebody trusts you to do something and when you do it, you are building the confidence in them. People will know that they can count on you. You can tell from one who accepts responsibilities and those who are cowards and pass it down to others.
True network leaders are about making a difference. We were always amazed that the most successful leaders and not necessarily the highest earners always had the time and inclination to help others. They were always focused on how they could make a difference for their people down in their network and their prospects not on how much money they can make.
Whenever there is a meeting, the leaders are always early and the last to leave. No matter how many people turns up, they will still conduct the meeting because they know that the most important audience has already arrived. A true network leader understands that motivation comes from within and never waits for someone or some thing to motivate you. You know that motivation is your responsibility. It is your duty to deliver your best even if there is only one person in the audience.
Whenever a problem arises you must never point toward someone else as the cause of the problems. As a network leader, you must take full responsibility of your own actions and how you perform as a network leader. It is absolutely essential as an effective network leader to take full responsibility for everything. Those who accept will make a difference.
“With great power comes great responsibility” - Spider-Man movie
Ronald
Great post. Leaders do show up early leave late and take responsibility for the outcome of their ventures.
I have at times coached others that desire to be leaders to find something relatively harmless that has gone wrong and take responsibility for it. It has to be something that you had a hand in in the first place of course but something that you could easily have not taken responsibility for. By taking responsibility for the event you can begin to experience the real emotion of leadership responsibility. Since we regularly assume responsibility for our team. The exercise forces the person to confront their ego since it will rail against such a move. I love the way this exercise allows the would be leader to experience in real life the emotional impact of responsibility
Ron