A GOOD LEADER

Everyone might ask what should a good leader looks like. But there aren’t any absolute criteria about a good leader should be. Therefore, I would like to tell you how to be a good leader in my opinion. I will also give you some suggestion if one day you are picked as a team leader. But it’s your choice whether you want to take my suggestion or not. :D

For me a good leader should bring his/her members to think and focus on the goals of the team. But just doing some thinking and focusing without any good movement about the goals will just be useless. Well, in this condition a leader is tested whether he/she is able to lead his/her members or not, whether a leader could reach the goals or not.

First of all, a good leader has to be close to his member because a good relation will make a better communication within the members which also lead to a great success. When a good leader is discussing about the organization goals, he has to listen to all perception or opinion that his member say. Objecting other member opinion will not be good because by objecting other member opinion, it’s almost the same as saying “I don’t need your opinion!”

Sometimes we might think that other people opinions or perception isn’t making any sense or seems to be just bluffing. But hold on a second, that unusual opinions might be a new idea that isn’t being taught by other people. A good idea sometimes comes out from a crazy opinion. Therefore, I would give you a suggestion if one day you are picked as a leader: “Never ever object other people opinions! Sometimes, the most unusual opinions might come with the best idea.”

The other thing that a good leader has to have is serenity. One day in reaching the team goals, your team will meet some problems. If the problem is big enough, it would make your team members feel afraid and scared. As we know, when somebody feel stressed he/she wouldn’t think clearly and might make things worst. In this case, a leader should be calm when all his/her members are stressed because of a problem. If a leader isn’t calm in facing problems, it will definitely make all other team member not calm too. I believe that team members won’t be calm seeing their leader stressed out. This “stress domino effect” might make a bad conflict inside the community and will also make a bigger problem.

Therefore, I will give you another suggestion: “Just be calm although you’re facing a big problem or at least make yourself look calm so the other team members could feel calm too!” If all of your team members are calm, you and your team might make a good decision about the problems. Because we know that, by being calm you and your team could think clearly or wisely.

The last thing that a good leader has to have is the willing to sacrifice. This might be easy to be said, but to be honest this one is the hardest one to be done by all the leaders. Sometimes a leader taught that he/she has to be the one who gets the best in every condition by letting other team members to suffer with the bad ones. I disagree with this kind of leader, in my opinion a good leader will try to know what his/her team member feel and try to make them feel comfortable to work with by sharing the good things together with his/her team members.

That’s all my opinions about what a good leader should look like. As you have read my opinions, I hope you now know how important the role of a leader in a team. So don’t take it easy when you are asked to be a team leader. Well, there might be other criteria that I forgot to write, so I would like to know your opinions about a good leader too! :D