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Here are some interesting business articles that address the
different skill sets and career development issues in simple terms.
Please feel free to re-reprint these articles and re-publish them on
the condition of giving full credit to the author and the associated
website URL.
Article 1: Are Leaders made or born?
Article 2: Personality Development for All
Article 1: Are Leaders made or born?
Most of us wanted to be leaders at some point in our lives. Being
the boss is a form of being a leader. Some of us succeed while
others wonder what leadership skills they are missing in order to
become a leader in their filed. Leadership is more about your
behavior and born-characteristics first and your gained leadership
skills second.
The best way to understand the leadership skill is use an example.
Think of the world known leader: Mr. Nelson Mandela for example.
The people of South Africa followed Mr. Mandela because they
trusted and respected his leadership skills. Mr. Mandela did not
have his leadership skills sharpened at Harvard University. He was
a born leader who cared for his own people’s freedom.
He exhibited compassion, honesty, determination, courage,
commitment, integrity passion, confidence, and wisdom. He had the
Charisma to be a leader or was born to be a leader.
Most leaders similar to Mr. Mandela didn’t seek a career in
leadership. They just became “the leader” because their behaviors
are the ones of a born leader.
If you were not born to be a leader, you still can be one at your
field of expertise. All you need is to have your leadership skills
developed to be able lead. If you cannot build your leadership skills,
then simply don’t lead, just follow.
Leaders’ main task in life is to achieve a goal that they very much
believe in. This could be part of their ideology that they were raised
memorizing or inspired them during their livelihood.
As a leader need to know what is the goal of your mission and plan
to achieve it. You need someone to help you out. You need to build
a committed team who believes in these same goals. Leadership is
all about leading a group of people: Team work.
As a leader, you need to lead this team by showing your leadership
skills compassion, integrity, honesty, humility, determination,
courage, passion, confidence, commitment, wisdom and expertise.
To be able to lead a team, you have to be very honest with
yourself. What I mean by this is that you have to know your
strengths and weaknesses. Your threshold to manage people, your
ability to be compassionate and your will to listen to them. Learn
from your own team. They will teach you more about yourself than
anyone else.
Leaders are born and are made!
Author: www.skills-guide.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Article 2: Personality Development for All
Personality is our psychological behavior that affects the way
handle people around us and the situations we encounter in life.
You hear the term; he has a cool personality or he has a high
temper personality. Both descriptions attempt to describe the
person’s interaction with people and situations.
In order to decide on the best way for personality development is
to understand what determines our personality in general. In line
with this site’s way, we will avoid the theories and academic
jargons.
Our Personality is decided by three main factors:
Heredity of our genes
Our Environment
The Situation we handle.
Let’s us drill down a little bit.
Heredity of our genes refers to how we were born. The genes we
inherit from our biological parents play a big role in our personality
and our personality development. Our physical facial attraction,
gender, muscle, reflexes, energy levels, hair are all decided in the
chromosomes of our genes.
Our Environment
It is not surprising that the cultures that we grow within play a big
role in our personality and personality development. Think of
yourself as an example. If you grow in a religion related culture,
your principles in life would be different to a person who grows up
in an non-religious culture. Your principles, ideology and way of
dealing with other might follow what your religion teaches you.
This is different if religion is not part of your culture where you tend
to gauge right and wrong based on other factors that are taught in
religions. An interesting theory of personality development shows
that the first born child in a family is more concerned with social
acceptance, more ambitious, more hardworking, more cooperative,
more dependent, more prone to guilt feelings, prone to anxiety, and
less aggressive that the second and third child of the same family.
This is another evidence of the effect of our environment on our
personality development.
You would also notice a certain behavior associated with certain
cultures and nationalities.
The Situation we handle
The above two factors of our personality equation might give
“stereo typing” people a breathing space. However, it is not meant
to should they consider the third factor in our personality
development; the situation we handle. This is because no matter
what is the culture you were raised within and the genes you have,
you personality development can improve if you handle the
situation in a well educated manner. By this we mean that no
matter who you are, you can be trained to handle the same
situation in the same way that another person who has different
genes and cultural background handles the same situation.
Author: www.skills-guide.com
Return to Business articles from leadership articles
different skill sets and career development issues in simple terms.
Please feel free to re-reprint these articles and re-publish them on
the condition of giving full credit to the author and the associated
website URL.
Article 1: Are Leaders made or born?
Article 2: Personality Development for All
Article 1: Are Leaders made or born?
Most of us wanted to be leaders at some point in our lives. Being
the boss is a form of being a leader. Some of us succeed while
others wonder what leadership skills they are missing in order to
become a leader in their filed. Leadership is more about your
behavior and born-characteristics first and your gained leadership
skills second.
The best way to understand the leadership skill is use an example.
Think of the world known leader: Mr. Nelson Mandela for example.
The people of South Africa followed Mr. Mandela because they
trusted and respected his leadership skills. Mr. Mandela did not
have his leadership skills sharpened at Harvard University. He was
a born leader who cared for his own people’s freedom.
He exhibited compassion, honesty, determination, courage,
commitment, integrity passion, confidence, and wisdom. He had the
Charisma to be a leader or was born to be a leader.
Most leaders similar to Mr. Mandela didn’t seek a career in
leadership. They just became “the leader” because their behaviors
are the ones of a born leader.
If you were not born to be a leader, you still can be one at your
field of expertise. All you need is to have your leadership skills
developed to be able lead. If you cannot build your leadership skills,
then simply don’t lead, just follow.
Leaders’ main task in life is to achieve a goal that they very much
believe in. This could be part of their ideology that they were raised
memorizing or inspired them during their livelihood.
As a leader need to know what is the goal of your mission and plan
to achieve it. You need someone to help you out. You need to build
a committed team who believes in these same goals. Leadership is
all about leading a group of people: Team work.
As a leader, you need to lead this team by showing your leadership
skills compassion, integrity, honesty, humility, determination,
courage, passion, confidence, commitment, wisdom and expertise.
To be able to lead a team, you have to be very honest with
yourself. What I mean by this is that you have to know your
strengths and weaknesses. Your threshold to manage people, your
ability to be compassionate and your will to listen to them. Learn
from your own team. They will teach you more about yourself than
anyone else.
Leaders are born and are made!
Author: www.skills-guide.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Article 2: Personality Development for All
Personality is our psychological behavior that affects the way
handle people around us and the situations we encounter in life.
You hear the term; he has a cool personality or he has a high
temper personality. Both descriptions attempt to describe the
person’s interaction with people and situations.
In order to decide on the best way for personality development is
to understand what determines our personality in general. In line
with this site’s way, we will avoid the theories and academic
jargons.
Our Personality is decided by three main factors:
Heredity of our genes
Our Environment
The Situation we handle.
Let’s us drill down a little bit.
Heredity of our genes refers to how we were born. The genes we
inherit from our biological parents play a big role in our personality
and our personality development. Our physical facial attraction,
gender, muscle, reflexes, energy levels, hair are all decided in the
chromosomes of our genes.
Our Environment
It is not surprising that the cultures that we grow within play a big
role in our personality and personality development. Think of
yourself as an example. If you grow in a religion related culture,
your principles in life would be different to a person who grows up
in an non-religious culture. Your principles, ideology and way of
dealing with other might follow what your religion teaches you.
This is different if religion is not part of your culture where you tend
to gauge right and wrong based on other factors that are taught in
religions. An interesting theory of personality development shows
that the first born child in a family is more concerned with social
acceptance, more ambitious, more hardworking, more cooperative,
more dependent, more prone to guilt feelings, prone to anxiety, and
less aggressive that the second and third child of the same family.
This is another evidence of the effect of our environment on our
personality development.
You would also notice a certain behavior associated with certain
cultures and nationalities.
The Situation we handle
The above two factors of our personality equation might give
“stereo typing” people a breathing space. However, it is not meant
to should they consider the third factor in our personality
development; the situation we handle. This is because no matter
what is the culture you were raised within and the genes you have,
you personality development can improve if you handle the
situation in a well educated manner. By this we mean that no
matter who you are, you can be trained to handle the same
situation in the same way that another person who has different
genes and cultural background handles the same situation.
Author: www.skills-guide.com
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