Leadership

Leadership The challenge of leadership is to sustain momentum in organisations One of the greatest challenges facing any manager or leader in organisations is to establish and maintain a focus amongst workers, employees or team members on of the needs to continually moving forward and improving the organisation. How a leader establishes and maintains this desire to continuously improve is the source of much debate amongst academics and practitioners. There are many leadership theories and models and much debate as to the best model or leadership style. However, The key ingredients for a successful leader are a vision, ability to motivate followers, desire to continuously improve or change to achieve greater personal and team performance and empowering their team to achieve results. There is a saying often heard in today’s dynamic business climate, ‘if you’re standing still you’re going backwards. The basic message is that unless you and your organisation are focused on continual improvement, more than likely your competitors are passing you by. A number of questions then arise. How does a leader motivate his team to initially agree on a clear goal or vision, get his teams or followers to move towards that vision, and maintain their momentum once they have started the journey' In leader, team, organisation, vision, leadership, needs, achieve, understanding, leaders, been, skills, new, communicate, understand, personal, people, must, momentum, however, develop, competencies, styles, style, staff, results, performance, hierarchy, followers, example, employees, change, basic, time, state, once