Сurrent event paper. How to Level Up Your Leadership in 2020

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How to Level Up Your Leadership in 2020
This article, published by Sinive Seely on the 23rd of December 2019 is quite enlightening. Seely appears to be interested in individuals who wish to challenge themselves to grow and become better. So, in the article, she offers guidance to leaders on how they can learn from their past, and become better leaders. The first thing that Seely asks her readers to do is to assess themselves. Well, to identify areas of improvement, assessing one’s leadership is crucial. History does hold a lot of data and hence Seely’s insistence that one has to start by looking at their past. However, Seely asks her readers to maintain honesty while assessing their leadership skills. Unless honesty is involved in the assessment, it will be difficult to identify and work on one’s weaknesses. Seely takes it further by identifying several factors or pointers that leaders can use to improve as the new decade of 2020 to 2029 starts.
The first directive she includes is that leaders need to define who they are. They need to do this by describing their leadership strengths, style, and approach. As a leader, one has to be able to offer a description of how they lead. Seely explains that one has to be in a position to explain how they apply their leadership strengths within the workplace. One’s style preference, as well as approach to work and people, also need to be identified. However, Seely notes that this is not enough because one has to ensure that how they see themselves as leaders rubs off on other people the same way.
The second directive that she offers involves articulating one’s leadership vision. Here, she notes that every leader must clearly articulate their vision. This vision has to capture people’s minds and hearts. This simply means that they have to believe in the leader’s vision. The vision should also not be based on the leader’s ideas alone but should be inclusive of other stakeholders as well. Seely makes it clear that this strategy becomes enhanced in its importance during a change initiative.
Lastly, Seely asks leaders to develop strategies they can use to grow from where they were to where they wish to be. Knowing the kind of leader one wants to be is crucial. However, often, people ...