Developing Leadership Abilities by Defining the Task

Author: Nauka Shah

Author: Nauka Shah

your primary responsibility as a leader is to ensure that your group achieves its common task. Leadership is sometimes defined as getting other people to do what you want to do because they want to do it . I do not agree. If it is your task, why should anyone help you to achieve it? It has to be a common tasks, one which everyone in the group can share because they see that it has value for the organization or society and directly or indirectly for themselves as well. Remember that achieving the task is your principal means of developing high morale and meeting individual needs. What you do (or fail to do) in the task area is bound to affect the other two circles. So you should bear those two spheres in mind when you commit yourself and the group to task action. As a leader you can not perform all the functions yourself. The group is not a flock of sheep passive, walking lumps of mutton with you as the human shepherd. They can help you and you can help them in pursuit of the common goal in various ways. The group members have energy, enthusiasm, experience, knowledge and leadership ability or skill to contribute to the key task functions. Within the compass of the three circles, defining the task is a vital leadership function. Task is a general word. It needs to be broken down into objectives, aims and purpose. As a leader you should be able to range up and down from the particular to the general within the task circle. Such thinking is the necessary preliminary to communication. For leadership implies communication the whys as well as the whats of work that has to be done. A good leader is a forward thinker. He answers the question why, not with a backward-looking sentence because we have always done it this way. But with a forward-looking one - :in order to achieve this aim or that purpose . Clarity about the task is often difficult to achieve. But it is essential to acquire it yourself and then to share it with others. Defining the task is not something you have to do only at the beginning of the enterprise. Confusion about the end of a task can soon invade a group or organization. So you should be ready to define the end when the need arises.About the Author:

Nauka Shah, the author, is the founder of http://www.leadership-quality.com. A website dedicated to helping strategic leaders for his strategic leadership. She has written other leadership articles, press releases, leadership books, and has leadership videos on leadership development, motivation, self improvement, and organization development. Her mission is to help others all over the world succeed in their own business. To read more of her leadership articles and leadership tips visit her website at http://www.leadership-quality.com to learn how to develop leadership quality.

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