Leadership, People’s Wrong Notions!

In my career I have met so many individuals some who are working at a very good positions, while some working at operating levels and some having their own business. No one truly had an idea about the true leadership prospects. As per the common understanding of the people I came forward to this point that people think leaders exists and are required only at senior levels in an organization, it’s a complete myth for those of you thinking in similar terms. Each and every department and processes needs a leader and the team members follow him. An organizations is bound by varied commitments to its clients, to fulfill this obligations the companies appoint managers and leaders who can guide people in doing particular tasks as it is rightly said by Paulo Freire, “A leader is not the one who does everything. A leader is the one who makes it possible for others to do.” A true leader will justify his position by helping others do their tasks perfectly. If there wouldn’t be leaders in an organization, there would be no followers and the companies wouldn’t get the output from the people working in there.

A person operates at various levels in organizations, you need not have a higher position to be a leader in a company, a leader is born with innate qualities and some develop it over time. It’s a complete paradox but a powerful truth that a company needs a leader at all levels to operate but the leadership may not required throughout the organizational departments. A leader is the person who leads so you need not wait to be declared as a “Leader”, you choose to lead so you are a people’s leader. Leaders face lots of challenges and difficulties while operating in an organization with different stages of development in a leader’s life, the challenges you face highly depends on the level at which you are operating as a leader. Let us discuss the most important 3 levels of leadership in an organization that a leader goes through:

1. People leaders
   As the name indicates, the leader that belongs to people working in the organization, at this level a person acts as a medium between the employees and the company. The people leader is the official leader of the company and his main functions is to focus on day-to-day accomplishments in his team. People’s leaders spends most of his time in developing, training, coaching the members of the team, he inspires and motivates his team members to strive harder to achieve targets.
2. Operating leaders
   These are the leaders having responsibility for all the departmental functions, their main role is to manage the managers. They target more on getting optimization from the resources of the companies and also the processes. They plan in advance for future and sustaining the current productivity level to drive ahead in competition.
3. Strategic leaders
   These leaders are the upper most in the hierarchy of all the leaders, they operate at the most senior levels in an organization, their function is not just limited to one department, they have varied matters to look after. They are the people who execute the plans for company and ensure that there is a balance between the strategies and the capabilities of the people in the companies. They do the future planning for the company.

Leaders as I stated earlier too, operates on all the levels of an organization. Their functions keep changing at different levels. Their core values remain same, that is getting work done from people and formulate the plans and strategies at whatever level they are working at. Forget the old mindsets and be a new leader even if you are not designated at senior level!