The Role of the Leader

The Role of the Leader

A leader is a person who creates vision, goals, and influences others to share that vision and work towards achieving those goals. According to Bennis and Nanus (1985), Leadership is the process of providing direction, energizing others and obtaining their voluntary commitment to the leader’s vision. A vision is an articulated image of the future that projects purpose, direction and priorities.

The responsibilities of a leader can differ from different environment. Basically, a leader is a person that sticks to the commitment of a company or an organisation to achieve its goals using the necessary skills.

The leader isn’t just a member of a team; Buckingham described the responsibilities of a leader as a person who rally others to a better future. He shouldn’t control people but rallies them into realizing the goals to achieving a better future. A leader must always carry a vivid image of what the future could be, and that will define his responsibility and drive him into achieving certain goals adopting necessary skills.

A leader must have range of skills, strategies and techniques which will allow planning of strong communication, interpersonal skills and awareness of the wider environment to be applied within which team will operate. Awareness of the organization vision provides direction that must be followed by employees within the organization.

A leader should be required to provide organisational meaning and purpose of a team by creating a vision, setting practical objectives and communicating the organisational vision. The organisational sheared vision must be inspired by involving team in setting objectives and communicating progress and celebrating achievements.

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...ting priority on team member and helping employees understand sufficient organizational values to help them decide better. Shared common purpose is defined when a team’s attention is directed to the values of the organizational needs and value delivery. This sharpens team members understanding on the contribution of their individual work to aim for the common purpose. This common purpose fundamentaly defines the values of a team or an organization.

It is a leadership strategy to early identify and share the organizational direction to members. This requires a leader to describe his vivid image of the future to team members and provide necessary guidance along regarding how to achieve certain goals. Organizational direction is/can be achieved through communicating the required aims and objectives of a team to increase the probability of a team being successful.