5 Steps to Convert Followers into Leaders

A leader is one that not just communicates messages but also inspire and lead people with his messages. He is definitely not a 'forward email' person, or one that just repeats what the boss says. 

You know your manager is a leader when he can finally do the most important thing: make people better than themselves.  He can hire, inspire, admire and retain people.   

A good leader must have 3 M: Motivate, Morale-booster and Make Problems Go Away. Here are 5 Steps that you can make your manager become real managers:

1. Get them to re-connect with staff that don't want to be connected. You know, those 'bo-chap' or 'can't be bothered' type.  
2. Plan, organize and execute a project that involves different departments with conflicting interests
3. Get them to offer lower salary and yet get people to join or stay in the company. 
4. By all means, make them set their own targets and if they can set targets that are higher than yours, you have a very ambitious manager. Quickly increase his pay and give him more work to do
5. Most importantly, get him to lead the impossible, that is, those people that know more than the manager.

By Andy Ng, whose course How to Be an Effective Manager is now conducted in Thailand and soon Sri Lanka. List of courses are at here. Related articles:

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