Inspirational Leaders

In an effective organisation, managers and leaders have a key role in influencing the culture and climate of the organisation. An inspirational leader should:

• Create a sense of vision in a fast changing environment.
• Motivate people and lead them through change.
• Be innovative in products and services and ways of working.

Here are six recurring features of inspirational leaders:

• They genuinely care: they approach work and their colleagues with openness and honesty and both inspire, and invest trust.
• They involve everybody: offering people both the support they need to be effective, and the freedom to put it into practice.
• They listen a lot: to peers, subordinates and customers.
• They show lots of appreciation: including small gestures.
• They ensure work is fun: by celebrating achievement and using lively social events to reward effort and commitment.
• Along with their people, they are deeply committed: they are passionate about the organisation and its work, and always looking for opportunities to improve.