| Leaders shape our nations, communities, and organizations.We need positive leaders to help guide us and make the essential large-scale decisions that keep the world moving. Our society is usually quick to identify a negative leader, but do we know how to identify a positive one? What would most people say makes a good leader? A leader who is good at what he does, is able to keep people motivated and inspired, works for the greater good of society and not just his own personal gains, and is able to respect his people will be successful in creating a positive and happy society.here are some of the factors that help positive leaders make positive change in the society. 1) Control What You Can Control – It’s simple but it’s true. You can’t control what people say and think about you. You can’t control the competition that is coming after your leadership. You can’t control most things in life but you can control your attitude, your effort and your actions. 2) Create Inside-Out – , The world can be like a pot of boiling hot water. You can be like a carrot that gets weakened when placed in the pot or you can be like an egg that gets hardened in a tough environment. Or you can be like the coffee bean that transforms the water into coffee. Instead of being impacted by the heat and difficult conditions, it is better to transforms the environment it’s in. The noise, media, negativity, and criticism only have power over you if you let it. If you know the truth that you create from the inside-out, not outside in, then you won’t your circumstances define you. Instead you will be like the coffee bean and work to define your circumstances. When you know the power is on the inside and you create the world with your beliefs, passion, positivity, purpose, work ethic, soul and spirit you become a powerful force in the world. 3) Focus on Solutions instead of Complaints – When things are not going well and you are being bombarded with negativity it’s easy to complain. But great leaders don’t complain. They focus on solutions. If you are complaining, you are not leading. If you are leading you aren’t complaining. Instead of focusing on where you are, think about where you want to go and what you want to create. Instead of complaining about what’s holding you back, think about solutions that will propel you forward. 4) Embrace Change – There’s a myth that people don’t like change. We actually like what change produces. We just don’t like the messy transition required to create the change. Individuals that thrive embrace the entire process of transition and change knowing it leads to improvement and growth. Throughout history we see that individuals that embrace the waves of change ride it to a successful future. Those who resist the wave get crushed by it. Leadership is a transfer of belief so it’s essential that a leadership team shares their positive belief about change with everyone in the organization. 5) Stay Positive and Do the Work – It may sound cliché but it’s a huge key to success. Through challenges, adversity and negativity you must simply stay positive and continue to do the work. Focus on solutions. Work hard every day. Embrace change, work together as a team, and create positive change from the inside out. Over time performance improves, the numbers rise, confidence grows, people feel and see the change and then everyone starts talking about why you are succeeding instead of failing. |
