Business Leaders lesson 3

Roles of a Business Leader

The roles or the functions which a person should have to become a good leader are as follows: The nature of a Business Leader and the characteristics of a Business Leader are described in the Lesson 1 and Lesson 2.

1. Achievement of Goals- A good leader should identify the goals which need to be achieved and form strategies to achieve them. Also he should take his followers towards these goals. He uses different methods to reach the goals with his followers and chooses the best method to be used. The goals need to be described and explained to his followers.

2.  Formation- One of the main roles of a leader is to form the Organization in a way to achieve the goals. The organization need to be structured methodically delegating the responsibilities using the best method to be used.

3.  Managing- The Employees and their activities need to be managed in a way that they work to achieve the goals, identify their mistakes correct them. Also he should make sure that activities are set in line with objectives of the organization.

4.  Motivation – A good leader always should encourage his followers to win the challenges towards the journey of achieving goals. Also he should use methods to motivate them. When times of defeat a leader must be able to encourage them towards until victory comes.

5. Representation- As a leader he should stand behalf of his followers at times of success as well as failures. Leader is the representation of his group of followers.

6. Assessment- A leader should asses the performance of his followers and carefully study where the performance is not up to the standard and need to take corrective action. Also he should appreciate the good performance.

7. Introducing New Methods- The Leader should take the first step to introduce new technologies methods to his group and to use them whenever the need arise.