Here I'd like to share my view on leadership and how leaders can build effective teams.

Primary Functions of a Leader

The leader's primary function is to inspire, align, and empower.

1. Clarify the Vision, Direction, and Objectives

   A leader must communicate a clear vision for what the organization/team is striving to achieve and translate it into actionable objectives and goals. This includes setting direction, defining success, and ensuring everyone understands both the why and the how.

2. Inspire and Empower

   A leader must inspire people to contribute their best work and create an environment where they can do so. This means instilling trust, enabling autonomy, removing barriers, and ensuring that individuals feel their efforts are meaningful and aligned with their own growth and interests.

The primary function of a leader is to build a values-driven culture that aligns shared purpose with collective outcomes—and to empower people to do impactful work together.

Signs of Great Leadership

Great leaders build organizations and teams that succeed after they leave the organization. Contrary to what we might think: great leaders are not those whose organization or team can't succeed without them. Some leaders/managers prefer to build organizations/teams around them to achieve job security and safety. The thinking goes -- they need me to run this and they can't fire me because it will be difficult and risky to manage this team, processes, and outcomes. It will take a long time for a new leader to move in. Great leaders build processes and culture in which they themselves are not the necessary element of the efficient and effective outcome-based output.

Principles for Inspired Leadership

How to bring out the best in people

An organization whose people operate at a high level of consciousness, acceptance (and acceptance of others). responsibility, assertiveness (and respect for the assertiveness of others),  purposefulness, and personal integrity would be an organization of extraordinarily empowered human beings. An organization can reach this level when the following principles or conditions are met:

1. People feel safe: secure that hey will not be ridiculed, demeaned, humiliated, or punished for openness and honesty or for admitting "I made a mistake" or for saying " I don't know, but I'll find out."
2. People feel accepted: treated with courtesy, listened to, invited to express thoughts and feelings, dealt with as individuals whose dignity is important.
3. People feel challenged: given assignments that excite, inspire, and test and stretch their abilities.
4. People feel recognized: acknowledge for individual talents and achievements and rewarded monetarily and non-monetarily for extraordinary contributions.
5. People receive constructive feedback: they hear how to improve performance in non-demeaning ways that stress positives rather than negatives and that build on the their strengths.
6. People see that innovation is expected from them: their opinions are solicited, their brainstorming is invited, and they see that the development of new and usable ideas is desired of them and welcomed.
7. People are given easy access to information: not only are they given the information (and resources) they need to do their jon properly, they are given information about the wider context in which they work -- the goals and progress of the company -- so that they can understand how their activities related to the organization's overall mission.