5 Ways to Lead Your Business from the Front

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To be an effective business leader is no tea party. You must train yourself sufficiently and be ready to take responsibility at all times. That is about the only way you can expect to be effective while every other member of your team can have the confidence to look up to you to provide leadership. You can’t do so effectively and efficiently if you stay on the side or behind. The best place to lead from is in front.

Here now are 5 things you can do to position yourself to lead your business from the front.

01. Dress and act the part. To be a leader, you must be able to dress like a leader. You’ve got to dress to influence and not to impress. That way, your appearance will always be consistent with your personal and professional brand. Your employees will take a cue from you if they are impressed. That gives your leadership authority.

02. Demand and act on feedback. Not many employees willingly give feedback to their bosses. If you encourage them to willingly give you feedback, such information enables you to lead exactly the way they expect you to. If for example some worker tells you they believe you'd be more effective by communicating more clearly that no doubt will help you to work more to improve your communication down the line.

03. Always walk your talk. Any time you tell someone you’ll do something, be sure you do it. Never make promises you're not sure you can keep. Nothing kills your credibility quicker than a breached promise or unfulfilled expectations. If everyone in your team knows you to walk your talk, they tend trust you more. That confers real leadership legitimacy on you.

04. Support your employees to support your customers. Leading by example is one credible way to lead from the front. If your team members see you treat customers and other persons shabbily, they tend to take a cue from you. For example, asking your team to be courteous to customers and being a jerk to them yourself is not only incongruent but also hypocritical. The way you treat people is always a very clear barometer for everyone on your team.

05. Grow yourself to grow your team. The world we live in is rabidly dynamic. That affects all our businesses too. As a leader, you can’t afford to be in a rot when it comes to acquiring knowledge for personal improvement. Many of your employees will do as you do, if they admire your leadership position. That way, you are leading from the front. Ultimately, there are only two credible ways to effectively grow your business. You must be able to grow yourself and grow your team. Those are the two ways. All told, as you and your team improve, so do service levels, operational efficiency and everything else. Leading from the front can’t be any clearer.

Great Inspirational Quotes to Help Spark up Your Business

No matter how successful you are in your chosen business, sometimes you experience some “lows” in your business life. That is exactly when you need to spark things up a bit. Inspirational quotes from great statesmen, business people and great thinkers come in very handy. Below are just some of the great quotes you can always refresh your mind with to help you get over difficult times and be motivated enough to go on. Take them slowly and ponder long and hard about what they can do for you.

01. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” -- Mark Twain

02. “Even if you fall on your face you’re still moving forward.” -- Victor Kiam

03. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” -- Conan O'Brien

04. “Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead." -- Nelson Mandela

05. “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal. We never lose, somehow we win out.” -- Ronald Reagan

06. “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” -- James Barrie

07. “Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” -- Joseph Barbara

08. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” -- Babe Ruth

09. "Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you." -- John Wooden

10. “Leap, and the net will appear.” -- John Burroughs

11. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” -- Walt Disney

12. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -- Theodore Roosevelt

13. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” -- Winston Churchill

14. “There is always room at the top.” -- Daniel Webster

15. “I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail, than to attempt nothing and succeed.” -- Robert H. Schuller

16. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” -- Wayne Dyer

18. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” -- Chris Grosser

19. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -- Farrah Gray

20. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” -- Gloria Steinem

21. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” -- Zig Ziglar

22. “Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

23. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking.” -- William Butler Yeats

24. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -- Nelson Mandela

25. "I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." -- Walter Cronkite.

26. “Step by step and the thing is done.” -- Charles Atlas

27. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” -- Ralph Marston

28. “Well done is better than well said.” -- Benjamin Franklin

29. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” -- Arthur Ashe

30. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” -- Vince Lombardi

Get busy right now because……..!!!

 

“No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”

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