How to Be a Leader Regardless of Your Job Title

Titles in an organization are positive in the sense that they create structure, maintain order and vision; however, for an organization to thrive in the business world today, each one needs to assume a leadership position in their own roles.

Doing your best at work is what matters – the action of being the best, being creative, inspiring others, stretching your thinking and solving problems is better than the title itself.

In today’s changing world, growing and developing the talents of every single person throughout an organization is what makes the company and the people themselves successful – building leaders regardless of titles.

To be successful everyone must see themselves as part of the leadership of the organization – you don’t need formal authority to lead, only a strong desire to be involved and a strong commitment to make a positive difference. Be truly excellent in your current role – no role is a small role; every job is an important job.

We all possess an inner leadership regardless of title. We just need to become aware of it and then really own it.

Leadership has nothing to do with what you get or where you sit; leadership is more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave. It’s all about doing great work and about lifting up every single one of the people you work with and get to serve.

You don’t have to have a title to be a leader just be the best you can be – once you do, life will definitively reward you, not only on a business level but also on a personal level.

Follow Your Passion

The beautiful thing about pursuing your passion is starting from nothing.

Some might say that starting from nothing is a great mistake and people who choose that path are only going backwards. They could be right; people who have comfortable lives, people who wake up every morning to go to a job they despise is what success really looks like. Isn’t it?

To some, it might be if they don't despise their job entirely. But to those who have a dream and aren't living it, it most definitely is not. People who quit that day job and decided to start from scratch are giving themselves the chance to make it big time. Sure, it may seem irresponsible if you have children to feed and loans to pay. But it only seems that way: quitting your crappy job really means that you’ve committed to working harder than you ever have in your life. And starting from scratch will only fuel your hunger for success.

Have you ever found yourself saying something along the lines of, ‘Man, I hate my job! I should have gone to film school instead of becoming a stock brocker’? Excuse me, sir, GO TO FILM SCHOOL. In fact, start making films right now. Or, if your passion is model airplanes, guess what! There are thousands of people who have the same passion. Chances are if you have a passion for something, you’re not the only one. That means that there is a market for it, and you can make money off it by using the Internet to find as many of those people as possible. Gary Vaynerchuck, author of Crush It! wrote three small and true words, “[…] scarcity breeds desire” (pg. 22).

So, if you’ve got that passion inside you, and the willingness to work incredibly hard to follow your dreams, then you have a world of opportunity waiting for you. 

5 Key Principles for Mastering Social Media

A lot of people use social media without knowing what they're doing. From one perspective social media is very straight forward and easy to use, but the people that use it blindly aren't making any progress within their business goals. In order to be successful in social it is crucial to know the main principles!

Here let me give them to you (try to take mental notes):

1. Attract

• Pass the eye scan test by using an attractive title

2. Engage

• Share content through the power of story telling

3. Connect

• Bring out the human side in you

4. Convert

•  Have a call-to-action

5. Retain

• Keep them interested once they follow you by using the 3E’s (Educate, Entertain, Empower)

Overall the goal should be to create super fans, you can do this by using the human element (make 1 in every 5 posts a personal post), becoming an authority, encouraging fan dialogue, and spreading the word (Create giveaways).

Now that you know what to do, always keep them in mind and watch how your results will boost. If you are worried you'll forget then just bookmark this page and rename it "Read Before Posting!" you'll always be able to have a quick refresher and know exactly what to do, cheers.