You are not a good leader till you have these five qualities in you

Anyone who is elevated to the role of a manager has reasons to feel proud and happy over their success. It inevitably involves heading a team, but not essentially leading a team. There's a huge difference between the two.

While the first comes to you as a part of your professional stature, the second is what you earn yourself by displaying responsibility, accountability, and decisiveness. Here are five lessons on leading, not managing:

Listen to your team. Rule one A good listener is always rich because hearing the thoughts and inspirations of others helps a lot to enrich knowledge. Moreover, people feel good when they feel heard.

2. Consensus is fine, but there's more leaders do Leading by consensus will rally a team around a common goal, but that alone is not enough to be a leader and create change. Infact direction and decisiveness create action. You must guide consensus.

3. Anyone can identify a problem. A leader is part of the solution Leaders don’t sit around and complain about what’s wrong. They drive solutions.

4. Apologize publicly and criticize privately True leaders don’t just praise publicly and criticize privately. They are also humble enough to apologize publicly and gloat privately. Good leaders talk about their team and their team’s contributions. And if they feel really good about themselves, they do it at home or with a close friend but not publicly.

5. Give the hard message It’s easy to give somebody a raise or a good review, but not everyone does an outstanding job all the time. You’ve got to tell them the right way even if its harsh, and then you’ve got to move on.

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