THE LEADER WITH VISION: THE OPTIMISTIC LEADER
INTRODUCTION
This paper shall be discussed in four parts as follows:
• Articulating Your Vision
• Living Your Vision
• Influence Others With Positive Attitude
• Conclusion
A leader is someone who guides others. One who assumes t he position of responsibility over the conduct of others that he is leading. Vision on the other hand is “a picture formed in the mind; something conjured up in the imagination without being related to facts.”
Leadership in some people is in-born, some learn the art of leadership, while others just cannot lead no matter what advantage of leadership comes their way. There are those who are in position of leadership by reason of the family they come from. Some become leaders as a result of hard work and dedication to work.
Others pull down those leading them to become leaders, while some attain the position of leadership as a result of misfortune that happen to their leaders. All these people attaining the position of leadership carry out their function in many different ways.
ARTICULATING YOUR VISION
As a leader, you need to be visionary about what you want to achieve in your position of leadership. Talking about visions, we are looking at how you want your department or section to be in the future, this does not apply to only your department or section, but also to those you are leading and the family as a whole.
Vision can otherwise be described as dreams, that is, your wishes. These wishes should be articulated in such a way that they become a plan of action. Let us outline some of the processes of articulating ...