TAKING RESPONSIBILITY AS A LEADER

One would think that being a leader is really very easy: you are giving some tasks to your employees, they are doing them and that’s it. Everyone is happy. However, leadership is not that easy and for that not only leaders work a lot but also have to take responsibilities. It is obviously okay when you are taking a responsibility for the job you are doing, however being a leader means you will sometimes have to take the responsibility of other’s job as well. This will sometimes seem not to be fair enough, because you don’t really have to give an answer for what you didn’t do, however this is a quality that comes up in every leader. If you are doing something, you tend to do it good, which means you won’t bear someone who looks at it through the fingers. You will care about it, thus, you will also take the responsibility on you.

However, you still need to have some skills here as well, for being a good responsibility taker and not offend anyone with this.

Start with accepting the way things are done – If you are just closing your eyes on everything that you don’t like, but being responsible for it, do everything yourself, that won’t work. In this case you are taking the whole responsibility, which is, let’s say not that much of an effective way. In every job, the equal division is very essential. However, if one part is not the way you like it, you can’t work instead of that person every time. Start accepting the way that employee works and make a decision: to escape the blaming process and find more constructive solutions.

As you are a leader, people don’t really expect you to blame them for the job done. Bringing negative words to the table every time you don’t like it and doing it yourself will greatly offend the employee and he/she will lose interest towards doing it again. You know why? Because you will correct it all at the end.

However, if you try to explain which part of the job is not done properly and help (help, not do everything instead of someone) to accomplish the task, you will gain the respect of that person. By showing the right way of implementing the task you don’t only reach a success in the job itself, you also support that person, help and motivate to work. This will better help you in getting the responsibility for the job and you will reach to the point that before you, your employees are also taking responsibility for the job they are doing.

Blaming is your enemy – Yes, you read it right. After all, it is your company and your employees, your team and your project. You have chosen them, (or even if you have to work with them) and being a leader means being able to communicate and be able to bring people together. So before starting blaming others for not doing this or that job done right, start with yourself. Ask some questions to you: Is there something you are not doing right? Did you set the goal right to everyone? Did you manage the work equal? Did you take part some additional things before the work division? Was everything organized correctly? And only after this, when you don’t find a way of blaming you, then go on and see which are the reasons for the failed job. Again, don’t try to blame, because this will only disturb the job. Discuss it with others and find solutions for getting it done properly. In other words – go from blaming to responsibility taking.

Those simple tricks will help you in reaching peace and success within your team or/and company work. Make sure you still enjoy the whole job you are doing and continually motivate others with your warm words and energy.