The Role of Leadership in Everyday Life

Importance of Leadership in Social Life

Life doesn’t go without vision; change and innovation for long enough and there demand for growing up and improvement definitely arises, if you intend to live competent with other society. If you think about these vision and innovation, there is a leadership skills are required to be played for having and organized and developed society. Through leadership skills we are paving paths to people to walk on and achieve the common goal that we all struggle for.

I’m writing a real story of our own society’s leadership, offcourse, everyone in the society cannot be a leader, there will be one person having strong leadership skill to convince people to pursue him and it won’t be coming through offering speeches or making promises, it do come up with presenting live examples and evidence. In the society where I live for 25+ years now, there were very few people accommodated in the area when I came here and often there were disputes and clashes among people and there was not even think of improvement and innovation for the coming generation, we passed years without any change in our lifestyle and we were the poorest people of the area as well.

Once upon a day, a person whose family still undertaking responsibility of leading this area came up with ideas of resolving the deputes and think of the improvement and grow up for themselves and for their coming generation, it was not an easy task to change people’s minds and influence them to following and obey whatever you suggest or offer, but he did and this action brought many changes and opportunities that helped people to think of for the betterment of future.

Importance of Leadership in Business

Leaders think differently from others, they are creating visions with positive attitude and they are always think of the possible way to get things done and never consider that are impossible to achieve they are struggle to find out the ways that can lead the organization into the right path and through these skills they can lift up the organization to new height.

Leaders essential aim to create opportunities to people to make some income to cover their base needs and they care about their money and time they are spending, they form and market new products to help others to invest and create new businesses. Leadership in business helps to execute organization’s plans, find marketplace and accelerate selling process of what they produce by prioritizing the tasks based on sensitivity of time and importance.

Based on study, 24% of people born leaders and 76% of leaders are made and those who are counted born leaders also need to learn either from their own mistakes they committed or from others. Small businesses owner should have a great ability to learn and help them to run their business smoothly as well as resolve the difficulties arise within the business and they also have the ability how to pattern their thoughts for innovation and changes that can help their business stay in the competitive range in the market, since most of the time the small businesses are being dropped down by large size of business that they are capable of influencing the market.

Leaders should also possess the ability to work independently and gets things done without any support and backup of others and helps to prove others that whatever is being done for the betterment of others and this leads others to pursue you.

Importance of Leadership Education for Students in Schools

School life is a learning stage for student to understand how to move on and develop their career and get prepared for challenges, conflicts, employment problems between idealism and beneficialism. To relish all these difficulties, they must learn a leadership skill which plays an important in every aspect of student life. Through these skills they can analyze and assess the challenges and get problem solving skills.

Problems are something that cannot be avoided, it arises anyway in any stage of your life, you must understand how to deal with, how to handle it and how to resolve it, and it requires leadership skills to be learnt in initial stage of your study life “SCHOOL”. Leaders must leave behind leaders (Student) to help and make next generation leaders and it will go as chain for long run.

Change in the world isn’t a unique or rare thing, it happens in every single day. If you intend not to leave behind from world, we need innovative leaders to take initiatives for development of environment and nature. Today’s student, tomorrow’s leader

In the school life, students only learn and they don’t have area of implementation and basically, they don’t know what is right and what is wrong, the only “LEARN”.

Leadership is not only about to lead thousands of people in your early age, it is all about to start from your own to initiate innovation in your plans and develop them to achieve the goal you set for yourself. For instance, if you develop a plan and set a goal for your studies and you achieve it, definitely, your teachers, classmates and friends will be inspired and you’ll be recognized as organized student, by doing so, you’ll be admired by teachers and followed by your classmates and friends, this is itself a leadership.

If you succeed in this, you’ll be confident to lead people in any aspect of life by setting up goals and pave a path to people to walk on to achieve mutual goal the setup for any reason.

Importance of Leadership in the Workplace

Leadership skills can keep workplace environment clean of playing politics and reduce level of stress which can directly affect the productivity of the staff and also can also bring all together as team and instruct them to think of the quality and struggle to achieve organization’s main goal by providing guidance, policies and procedures to clarify everyone’s responsibilities and authority to avoid any intervene in others duty

Often, people intend to misuse their power and tract undue attention and popularity, they are trying to tarnish their colleague’s reputation and obtain advantages, spending maximum of their time in pulling others legs and getting busy with unnecessary politics which don’t help them. Leaders create environment that people can get connected with each other no matter at which level, share their thoughts and problems, think for the advancement of performance, willing to help each other and enjoy the workplace.

Leaders encourage people to raise their voice and explore the ability and talent that are hidden, which helps to give the right job to right person and get it done at best possible extent.

Real example: Said Agha Arab is a Mobile and Furniture provider in Jalalabad city, when started this business, he was student of Nangarhar University and now provides Mobel and Furniture to major city of Afghanistan and has 5 sub-offices in Kabul, Jalalabad, Herat, Mazar and Kandahar and tens of people are employed.

Importance of Leadership in a Society

If we look at the history of each country, there are many people that are being still remembered for what they have done for their people and they are “heroes” and “champions” and still their leadership skills are being followed and taught in schools and even in higher level institutions. They might not have done everything by themselves; they have walked with people and got what they have targeted. For instance, Martin Luther King Jr. was a person who greatly contributed in winning the war to USA. Also he mobilized and empowered the fellow African Americans to stand up for their rights and fight for it until they get the same right as other citizens have.

Leaders always think of creating opportunities, bring innovation and development for their people to have a better life in society and facilitate many ways to fight for their rights, if they are not given as equal as others as I mentioned above. All these facilities and opportunities need a great manager to administer it and run in the proper way, so the leader must have great management skills as well to keep these opportunities for long run and defend against the obstacles to show others how to deal with difficulties and stand for their rights.

In this stage, I can give Gandhi as example who non-violently resisted the world’s most dominant colonizing power by providing education facilities that he thought that this is the only way that people can get freedom and raise their voice for their rights and now he is celebrated as hero of India and no one denies his sacrifices and difficulties that he has gone through to make a free India.

Also, I can say that leadership is much more important in society, if we intend to live without stress and complications and prevent crisis and problems as strong social leadership skills are required.

Importance of Leadership to You

Leadership skill is essential element of improvement and building reputation for both individual and society. I have been applying my leadership skill in my personal life to influence, support, inspire and create better opportunity for my family members to grow. At professional level, I have also come up with ideas to lift up my subordinates for the senior level opportunities and helped them through on job trainings to be able to excel their career in very short period of time.

In the meantime, utilizing my leadership skill also helped me to be a recognized, trusted and reliable person in organization as well as among the colleagues. I have found ways for the regular promotions and career advancement in the workplace. It helped me to undertake the responsibility to lead multi-cultural people and guide them to run for achieving organization’s goal, offcourse, supervising human resources are not any easy task and cannot remains longer unless you have a strong leadership skill. Dealing with complications give you the ability to resist and find ways to get out of the hard and difficult situation and this can be done through leadership skill. Often the hardest job of leader is taking the risk and seeking alternatives to resolve the problems and difficulties.

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