Introduction
A professional at the beginning of the path of developing oneself into a leader is challenged with multiple issues. One seeks to ensure relevant decision-making approaches, proper leadership skills, and management styles to become an effective and authentic leader. Self-awareness and continuous learning are the sources of empowerment for leaders that might help them guide their career development. For that matter, this paper will explore several suggestions for developing one’s leadership skills to become an authentic and effective leader.
Discussion
The role of a leader requires commitment and deliberate persuasion of difficult tasks while motivating and empowering followers. Continuous stress often leads to burnout, which ultimately causes inefficacy of teams (Valcour). Thus, to become a more effective leader, one should prevent burnout by enhancing self-care and shifting an overworking mindset to one that empowers handling flexible factors and accepting inflexible ones (Valcour). In such a manner, a leader will manage to remain composed and effective for their team and business even under the circumstances of significant stress and pressure.
Furthermore, when seeking ways to improve one’s authenticity and effectiveness, a leader might reconsider their overall direction in their career and life. Indeed, when performing under continuous pressures of the ever-changing and competing world of business where success is measured by money, one might feel powerless in pursuing their own perspective, thus following “everyone else’s path” (Gassner Otting para. 1).
Conclusion
Thus, one of the suggestions to become a more authentic leader is to think about goals relevant to one’s vision and experience (Gassner Otting). Such an approach will allow for focusing on the unique capabilities a leader might bring to the business and teams and facilitate an exceptional style that might yield competitive advantages in the future.
Works Cited
Gassner Otting, Laura. “Are You Pursuing Your Vision of Career Success — or Someone Else’s?“ Harvard Business Review, 2019. Web.
Valcour, Monique. “Beating Burnout.” Harvard Business Review, 2016. Web.