Effective Leadership

September 9, 2019 Educator's Corner

Leadership is defined as the ability to influence a group of employees values, beliefs, attitudes and behavior (Ganta, et. al. 2014). A leader with strong leadership skills can easily motivate and influence the employees of the organization and apply effective changes to the organization, Atkinson (2015) further states that if there are no effective leadership in an organization, no changes will be made, because accordingly no leaders will be able to motivate and lead the organizations employees as well as to provide clear direction for an organization.
Other than that, there is also another way to define a leader that has strong leadership. A characteristic of effective leaders is that they give a clear direction to their employees, and also lead their employees to commit to their jobs and to work as a group to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives (Wasim et., al. 2010).
This also tells us that good leaders usually have a clear vision for a company, institution or community and therefore can easily identify the problems and obstacles that currently stand between them and the aims, goals and objectives of the organization.
In this way they are able to effectively and efficiently bring about the necessary reforms that will bring the company or institution or community into the future while keeping abreast with contemporary changes in the business world.
According to Jackson and Parry (2008), leadership is a process where leaders use their skills and knowledge to lead and bring a group of employees in the desired direction that is relevant to their organization’s goals and objectives.
Additionally, an effective leader that has strong leadership skills should also be in possession of certain characteristic, such as, passion, consistency, trust and vision; for only leaders who own these characteristics are able to build trust in employees.
Effective leadership is essential in managing change and change is the only method to sustain the organization in the current changing environment. As usual, change is hard for people, people will feel uncomfortable because of change and even sometimes deny the change, continue at they are and be eliminated by the society.
Therefore, leadership can be a factor to motivate and encourage people to continuously make change and push them to change. Leadership plays a role in an organization to motivate and encourage the employees to change in order for the organization to be able to sustain and adapt to the business environment, to make sure the organization will improve and be innovative.
Leadership skills also enable the leaders to lead their employees into the correct direction, in accordance to the organization vision and mission. When an organization’s leader leads the employees in the correct direction and motivates them to continuously improve and innovate, the organization’s performance will surely increase and be able to sustain the organization in the current complex environment.
 
Wagner P. Dionisio, PhD.
Pines City National High School