ENGINEERING THE ART OF MINDFUL LEADERSHIP

Being a leader is an art form that needs to be skillfully mastered. It is a skill that needs practice to excel. However, it’s not that difficult of a task.

In order to be a good leader, one needs to understand the meaning of leader to the core. A leader is someone who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. The leader is someone who’s an all-rounder and hence leadership, as a skill, is a reflection of an all-round personality.

Now, achieving this can be tricky, but not impossible. We’ll tell you how:

• Indira Nooyi or Indira Gandhi, Chanakya or Abdul Kalam, Bhagat Singh or Dhoni, we have always looked up to these leaders and made them our idols. Inspiration is always around
  A good leader is the one who inspires the people around him. Their own actions work as an example for others. Good leadership should be able to motivate the team to dream, learn and do more.

• Mindful leadership always induces zeal and confidence in the team just like former PM Atal Bihar Vajpayee did through his energetic speeches.
  So as to master the art, one should be able to motivate the team to work with enthusiasm and interest. The actions and words of a good leader should fill the team or people around with the positive zeal and enthusiasm.

• Late APJ Abdul Kalam was had always mentioned that a leader should have a fearless vision. Taking his cue, understand that positive leadership is always future centric. A leader should have a vision for long run and should motivate the team to achieve the vision.

• Most importantly, mindful leadership is always a two way process as it is interactive in nature. One of the most celebrated leaders, Chanakya, always emphasized on this. A mindful leader always interacts with the team and creates an employee friendly environment for them to work and grow in.

 

“When in the court, he shall never cause his petitioners to wait at the door, for when a king makes himself inaccessible to his people and entrusts his work to his immediate officers, he may be sure to engender confusion in business, and to cause thereby public disaffection, and himself a prey to his enemies.

• How many times have we all seen instances of captain cool, MS Dhoni giving lead to other players to grow during the matches? Plenty of times right. That is exactly what a true leader does.
  Leadership is supposed to shape and mold the behavior of the team for accomplishment of goals. It drives the thought process of the entire team towards the final goal.

• Finally and most importantly, the best kind of leadership is something that is exactly opposite of being a boss. A great leader is never a boss. Where a boss is all about ‘I’ and ‘Go’, a leader is all about ‘We’ and ‘Let’s Go’. A leader always integrates the team.

Although engineering the art of mindful leadership can be complicated, it’s not inconceivable. Being a good leader is, in fact, just the reflection of your own personality and actions. As long as you stay positive from the inside, you can maneuver your team smoothly and well towards the combined goal. Just be a good human and treat the team like a group of the same.