Hi Everyone I'm Lara and I'm a career coach
In today's video I want to talk about what it takes to be a leader some of the misconceptions
about being a leader and maybe that's something that you are striving for so let's go through it
A lot of times people when they think about leadership and they think about a leadership
role they think it's somebody who's just very authoritative that is there to just delegate
and point and say you know you're fired or you're hired or whatever the case may be
and that could have been what it was but many many years ago that's not what leadership is
now leadership is about inspiring, leadership is about emulating that success to your team
you want them to work with you not for you you want them to learn your work ethic
how you strive for success, what you do day to day to inspire one of the things that I think is so
important when you are a leader is the ability to listen it's not about always being the person to
speak and to to delegate it's not about that it's about listening, listening to your team
you know there's so many situations where I took the time and I listened and I would sit with each
person on my team and I would ask them you know what do you want? where do you want to
go in your career? where do you see yourself? how do you want this job to mold you into something
else so that you can get to the career you want to? and I would sit down with every single person
and this was something that we did on a regular basis because sometimes goals change and you want
to do something differently or you know I found when I first started to do it some people were
really shy and they didn't know what to really say so I opened that line of communication with them
and there was a lot of people on the team that you know they wanted
something different they wanted to feel this satisfaction this achievement within themselves
okay so how do we get that we would build plans we would build attainable plans action plans as
to how can they get that and I worked with them and it's not something that I said okay
take this topic or take whatever you want to do and come up with four action items and come back
to me and let's review it no I went together with them we came up with the ideas together
and I was very you know straightforward and I and you know something that I used to say and
I expect a lot but I give you that chance to do that you know I may be hard on you but I expect a
lot so and what I mean by that is I want people to know that they can reach their highest potential
that just giving the minimum is not good enough. One of the biggest achievements for me
is when I see one of my teams like team members who've applied for a position they've worked
really hard on it and they've got this position and it doesn't matter if it's
you know three four five higher levels than what I am that doesn't matter to me they reach their goal
and that is what's so important to me and it makes me so happy that they say to me you know
I couldn't have got this without you without your mentoring without your advice without your help
and this is why I do YouTube now is because I want to inspire I want people to
say you know what Lara helped me with something she made me think about things a little bit
differently and now I feel like I'm getting to the point of where I want to be in my career
a lot of times people have a fear of what it is to be a leader you know some people think well I'm
not an expert I don't know what to do it doesn't matter you don't have to be an expert all the time
there is some jobs that yes you definitely need to be the expert for a particular job but other jobs
you know you just need to be able to listen you need to be able to motivate you need to
be able to show your team that you're working together but they're not working for you when I
turned into a leader I changed people's thinking where they thought were where they thought that
they couldn't do something I wanted to make that switch that they can do it it's so hard sometimes
putting yourself out there it's so hard when you really want to do something you just don't
know when when to start or how to start you know it just takes that little bit of courage and it
takes a little bit of somebody saying yes you can do it you know I want it to be that voice
I want it to be that voice for others to say yes you can do it yes you have what it takes
so let's do it now the last thing I want to leave you with is you want to build your team where
you're valued on the strength that you bring within your team now hopefully you've enjoyed
this video please leave me a comment let me know how you've inspired to be a leader and what you
feel is so important in leadership please don't forget to subscribe and we'll see you soon thanks