Have you noticed that being a good leader is difficult? It takes work.
Perhaps the greatest challenge is to engage your employees in a dialogue of emerging purpose. Leadership is potentially both high-impact and high-risk, and dialogue is at the heart of leadership. Rapport is vital to conversation. The chemistry must be trust and credibility; your employees must have confidence that you are not wasting their time. Excellent listening skills and a sense of curiosity on the part of the leader, together with the ability to deliver honest feedback, are crucial to keeping the dialogue grounding in reality—not fabricated suppositions or unsupported beliefs. In the heat of conversations separating transient, situational factors from those innate and require attention is needed. This sifting can often require delicate judgment. Carefully validated information is a vital determinant of the quality of the outcome of the dialogue venture.
While good leadership is difficult, good leadership is also rewarding.