My entrepreneurial leadership …
An interview with www.pro-volunteer.com
I typically run an entrepreneurial leadership style, making me work with many groups in achieving organisational goals. I currently work as an organizational effectiveness, process and performance officer with a technology company. My focus is on ensuring that organizational standard operating systems are followed, people are motivated and organizational goals are achieved.
In addition to this, I also run (part-time) an executive role with a foundation, where I manage operations (virtually) and also lead some programs. Entrepreneurship is at the heart beat of all I do, which has lead me into startups that are about to be launched.
My role is very significant to the company I work for and the NGO I co-manage. These two organisations are regarded as small and medium organization, nevertheless they require constant attention to ensure that the companies grow in an effective and efficient way.
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Where I work full time, I am responsible for ensuring that over 25 staff fits into the company’s vision, and this is the same case with the NGO, which has over 1,000 volunteers.
At the long run, the roles I am playing will help me be an effective leader when I setup my company and how I interact with my staff. Both roles are significant parts of the process to entrepreneurship. Every business would need to ensure that 3 key areas are moving forward in a ‘synergetic’ fashion; people, process and product.
People; this is what gets the job done
Process; this is how the job is done
Product; this is the job that must be done.
When I setup my own company, I would be faced with these same challenging areas. So what better way to learn to solve such challenges than to start with the roles I play in both organisations.
My Thoughts On The Term ‘Leadership’
Two areas come to my mind in the subject of leadership; people and vision.
People represents the group you are leading, vision represents where you are leading them to.
Secondly, I fully view leadership as responsibility. Anyone who can accept responsibility for a cause, is a leader; irrespective of age, gender, education, experience.
Key Traits Should A Leader Have
Excellence: Everything must be done to the very best of your ability, and the leader must let his followers know that excellence is non-negotiable
Character: In pursuit with the excellence trait, we must recongnise that nothing sustains success like character. Character is the true trait of a leader. His or her ability to do things the right way for the right cause
Happiness: So why are you doing it if it doesn’t make you or the world happy or smile ?
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Poor leadership (in all sectors) is one of the reasons why Nigeria is yet to develop to her full capacity. Some may disagree with John C. Maxwell’s quote that ‘everything rises and falls n leadership’, but I agree 100 %.
Nothing happens by chance. If anything goes right in a society, then somebody must have made is so. Your streets can’t become clean by itself, someone has to make it clean (that’s the leader). So, if anything is going wrong in Nigeria, it’s because no one has accepted responsibility in making it right, therefore we are void of leaders, leaders who would take responsibility for the right cause
“Leadership is simply responsibility”
How Small And Medium Scale Businesses Infuse Organisation Leadership To Improve The Overall All Outcome Of The Business
It is more challenging for SMEs, but the irony is that, this is the best place to learn leadership.
1) Be performance driven; SME’s lack performance / excellence trait. They have to ensure that every resource counts. Nothing motivates well like success, the moment staff see that their efforts is yielding prosperity, they would gladly put more effort. But we must push first for performance.
2) Show attention and care: Let everyone feel important to the business. Let the toe know it’s playing an important role as the heart. Let the heart know that even though it can’t be visible, it’s role is as important as the eyes.
