What? As a leader you must be passionate

By being fervent about the things you want to achieve

Why To guide your decisions and inspire people to follow you

You should be a passionate leader to:

Build self-belief in your people.

Have the determination and dedication to achieve your goals

Passion enables managers to have indirect authority over their employees

It enables employees to carry out their tasks with commitment to do better and innovate.

Passion is the emotional bedrock of leadership

** It's what enables leaders to win people to their cause**

Passion enables leaders to generate energy and self-belief in followers

Be Bold and Track your Behavior

Being Bold: Never assume that people know what your belief, position or intentions are.

Tracking your Behavior: Use a simple process to track your behavior, to make sure that you are being true to your passion.

Primarily, assume that all you say about your beliefs is pure rhetorics

Your words always need something to reinforce them

They should indicate that your point is important and relevant.

** Trust** It elevates levels of commitment and sustains effort and performance

Without the need for management controls and close monitoring.

Make sure you avoid the abuse of team member's vulnerability

How to Build Trust in your Enterprise

Get to know your people

Get the underlying issues out

Establish a conflict protocol as a standard throughout your team

Do what you promise

Decision Traps

What Causes Traps? When managers experience a string of successes interrupted by difficulties that they overcome.

Problems arise when managers don't understand a challenge, yet are confident they can overcome it.

The General Effect This makes them overestimate their knowledge and skills against a challenge they underestimated.

It's hard to deal with difficult decisions

** We would all rather dispatch it to the bottom of the pile or delegate it to other people**

** However, leaders know that it's a task that must be done.**