Leadership is about experiencing the hardship and performing many roles according to the need. It is an action not a position

Leader became great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others – John Maxwell

For many leaders and business owners growing a business is a nightmare. Most of the business leaders relate to this. Just ask this question to yourself, do every employee you recruit, every customer you acquire and every expansion you drive actually make you tired? Then you are not enjoying the experience of leadership who is at the fore front of the business and leading/dragging the team.  If You feel the drag then you are not enjoying.

It is supposed to get easier as you grow and expand your business with lot of people around you to look after the business. But, it is not the case for most of the businesses, so why it is difficult, what is the problem? As you increase your dream team, prospects and resources- things should get easier, but they don’t. Things get harder and more complicated.

When you are your own boss (self-employee), having small team, things are at certain level of complexity, when you add more people degree of complexity also increases for communication. This is where leadership experience and managing team by creating more leaders come into picture. Leadership is just not a statement, it is like you live with people, deal with people and even die for them.

 The PROBLEM is….Leader inability to grow enough leaders throughout the organisation who have the capabilities to delegate (believe this the biggest problem), predict and repeat the same thing time and again to produce the consistence results

Growing a business is a dynamic process as the leader navigates the evolutions and revolutions of the growth. And like the growth stages of child, they are predictable and unavoidable. To deal with these challenges, the company must grow the capabilities of the people throughout the organisation;

• Leadership is all about how you build culture, because culture is very contagious. Understand this and reflect your own personality and how it is influencing people around you and working for you.
• Leaders – create- leaders : if you don’t create enough leaders guess what you will be the bottleneck and bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle
• Leaders must have good LISTENING skills. Most of the people believe that leaders are there to just tell what to do, but it is opposite, listen to everyone and every time because that is where you are getting continues feedback to address any issues or problems. Which gives you opportunity and time to address it much before it happens
• Leaders must have good COMMUNICATION skills,, it’s all about how you communicate (customer, employees, stakeholders etc )
• Leaders must have compelling vision with right values and purpose. Finish what you start, mean what you say. And don’t say one thing and do something else. Consistency is an important aspect of leadership
• Letting go and trusting others to do things well is one of the more challenging aspects of being a leader of an organisation.
• Leadership is always tested in difficult situation/condition (like how the ship will sail through storms and waves to reach the destination) and not in the when everything is going your way because it covers up a lot of mistakes. When fortune revers, all your weakness seem to be exposed and you look dumb.
• Don’t try to keep your people busy, keep them engaged with business purpose and vision. This is probably area leaders need to get their thinking right, otherwise you will chase your people every time to get your job done.   If employee feel disconnected it is even harder for leader to lead them.
• Perseverance from the leader must transform to his people for better RESULTS and for the GROWTH
• Goals without routines are wishes, routines without goals are aimless. The most successful business leaders have clear vision and the disciplines (routines) to make it a reality.
• Great leaders have the ability to SELL VISION and motivate to achieve it

Lot of time I seen people talking and debating what kind of leadership is applicable in business, but business is all about people. Hence understanding the people, importantly psychology of your people and your customer is very important for decision making and leading the business

Finally, everyone talks about what leaders have to do; but what about the rest of the team players? Make sure you find the team players (future leaders) who are Humble, Hungry, and (People) Smart. It's your (leader) ability to attract, hire, train, and retain people with these three virtues that will supercharge your teams. In turn, trying to build high performing teams without players with these foundational attributes will make your job so much harder.

"Be true to yourself and to your people"