The best role models are you. If you are a mother or a father (or even an aunt or an uncle!), your children will look up to you and treat you as their role models.
You can become better role models to your employees by:
- being aware of your actions
- identifying your bad habits and behaviours
- fixing your bad habits and behaviours
- showing off your good qualities
- being an inspiration to others
You must always remember that no matter how small the number of people you lead, people will always look up to you.
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2 Comments
Prakashrn
September 2, 2014 at 4:41 pmExcellent analogy! But leaders especially in the Asian culture are selfish and egoistic. Change is a ‘vulgar’ word to them Look at MAS. Again it’s going back to square one. Our leaders don’t admit their flaws and continue with their personal agenda. Learning from mistakes is invaluable. Total revamp of MAS is vital. Always there is an hidden agenda. Transparency is always ignored. Repeating mistakes is considered a valiant act among some leaders.
PRAKASH R.N
Roshan Thiran
September 4, 2014 at 9:32 pmThanks for your comment Prakash. It is indeed very hard especially if there is no culture or infrastructure to support great leadership development and growth. But it does not mean we give up. We can be the “role models” for others to emulate us. And hopefully this break in the chain (through us!) will create a new set of leadership in the future… fingers crossed!