Leadership Simplified-Part-19-Leadership Lessons from a Child-Part-1

Child as a Source of Inspiration for Leadership

Child is a Curious Being. To be an Effective Leader you can pick up some qualities of a child, that will help you manage self and lead others.

1) A child is a Bank of Questions:

Child lives with curiosity and keeps questioning to know more in life.

Child does not live with assumptions & biases; it lives with a principle of question the unknown.

As a Leader when you ask questions to understand the why behind the performance and behaviours, it reduces assumptions and biases, which not only helps the Leader to avoid Passing judgments it also prevents taking hasty decisions about subordinates.

2) A child is a Busy Being:

You can never see a child being idle, the child finds ways and means to be occupied with things that can either give pleasure or do something creative that increase the child’s sense of accomplishment.

As a Leader you can learn the art of being busy for a reason and find your Ways to be creative in your roles, to lead your Team

Question your Assumptions and keep Nurturing your Creativity to unleash the Leader in you

Creativity Lives Where Child is the Owner of the Mind

M.L. Narendra Kumar

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