Leader’s Training for Relevance

Leader’s training for relevance is important. There are leadership qualities, those takes you to the door. Now, leadership is a continuous game. And you need to hone your leadership traits continuously to remain relevant. My experience of 35+ years tells me that apart from all the known leadership traits, the aspects those makes your life easier are “Ground Intelligence” and “Common Sense”. And I rate these two traits as very important, to keep the leader on top of the situation (OTOS), always.

And incidentally, none are taught in any schools, specifically. And the most relevant way to get to these two are “continuous learning through experience” and “feedback”. Feedback: As a Leader, you may have to give and receive feedback, and here WHY, WHAT, WHEN, and HOW, all are important. WHY and WHAT resonates mainly with your knowledge, and HOW and WHEN reflects the wisdom.

Giving and receiving feedback is an art, to ensure that it pains minimum while landing to the person, with whom you are sharing feedback, without compromising the spirit of the feedback. You need to make it suit the context, as well adopt suitable behaviour during sharing and while accepting the feedback, to make the space comfortable for all. The purpose of feedback is “improvement”, and this intent would need to be communicated in a subtle way across to make the atmosphere trustworthy. The leader needs to ensure that clear unadulterated feedback flows both ways, as a part of processing ground intelligence.

Leader’s training for relevance is important. Leaders are philomath: Most of the leadership lessons and their validation happens while living the life, leading the team, facing failures, and celebrating successes. And there is a sizable portion of learning flows from the workforce, mostly in the form of hard-earned experiences. What is important for a leader is to park the ego of position while having that appetite to learn from others, and create an atmosphere of learning around, for all to seamlessly exchange those learning, and help all to apply their fine wisdom to absorb, whatever is applicable to them only at the receiving end. Listen to the founder of INFOSYS, Mr N. R. Narayana Murthy, on his version around “how does a leader continuously train himself/herself to remain in the game”.

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