Leader : A People's Person.

When I was watching the a Fort at one biggest city of india, I looked at the lavish life style of the king of that place and his palace. It was also having the photographs of the British Viceroys during the colonial regime from MacAulay to Mountbatten and so the portraits of Prince Edward. However no one was able to touch my heart.

I was stunned! How this can happened! The Lord Macaulay, he was a pioneer of Indian education system, the kind Edward was a king of India, the sun was never set in his kingdom, and again the the Indian king was king of Indian Territory he has done very good things in his territory. But not accepted in all India. Why I can't accept them as a good leader. What is that it made to not to think them as a Icon?. Was it wrong with my thinking? That I am not appreciating there work? Was it that I am not knowing the history?.

Then what was the reason?

I simply felt that these people were not a people’s person. There motives were different than the motives of common peoples aspirations and ethics.

Like the king Akbar, in spite of being Muslim King he was appreciated by people. He was the person who understands his people’s need. Removing taxes like jiziya and many other good works were done by him for the people. Take an example of King Shivaji or even Mahatma Gandhi. These all people were having strong understanding of people.

While understanding the leadership first thing is needed to understand that personal leadership is about guiding the self. But when you are becoming a leader for other teammate you need to walk the talk and become their person. Need to understand the impulse of people, should get heat if your people are suffering with high temperature or even the cold. You must not do mere statistics of your people but must understand the people in depth. His\her triggers, competencies, lead and lag indicator in moods \ performance \ working style and excreta. That’s make you a people’s person.
It means that your people can relay on you to share their failure and challenges. Many a time bosses fails at the first point, cos they don't want to understand people’s impulse or don’t want to be with them or share their piece of appreciation.

One need to always become people’s person, you can have numerous opportunity to become a boss, but you have very few consequences as a boss if you become people’s person. That is a shift from boss to leader.

Once you understand the difference between boss and leader the next thing is appreciation.
In appreciation, Key thing to note is passing on the credit of work to individual. And not accepting this as your success. The reason is you are only igniter of the fire within the individual. This is a job of you as a boss. Make the life of your person unrestful with the problems and also guide him to understand the way out. And appreciate timely when the solve the problem or completely understand the problem

Here the hint is people always understand the intention of appreciation, you cannot fool them every time bay false praising, Hence appreciation at right time in right time plays important role here.

Similar way of reprimand by people's person is different.The People's leaders also reprimand in a classic manner like 'One Minute Manager'. style. One minute reprimand - What was a cause of things went wrong, how it could have avoided and what is a learning. Simple thing no talk of personal or team failure.

As a leader, one must push ourselves away from taking credit and passing it to the person who had done it. And also taking negative credit with us for all the thing which are not so good. That is real step of becoming people’s person. I am thankful to all my favorite leaders who shown me the same path of appreciation and being people’s person

Punctuality & Time management.

For a person who working in area of Training program or event management, s\he always has a hectic day, no one bother if you have any personal issue or pain, or even you had a breakfast or not. But good note is that when you are arranging various programs you get a chance to meet various leaders and people, discussions with them which adds value to your day’s positive thinking account and enrichment of experiences. As the leaders in these program always talks everything from Growth to hindrances & ethics to empowerment.
What I observed with all people who were in leadership role, They were coming exactly 5 minute before schedule. No calling to people for coming in venue or no extra breaks. Everything was happening smoothly.

Punctuality & Time management is a quality of leader. But I find this is the most essential quality of each individual in his growth of for his leadership development. Even I found one of the faculty who was there in classroom in spite of all participants present in the classroom he was waited till exact 02:00 hrs to start the training program at exact time. No before a minute or after minute.

I am started bit reflecting more about my punctually habit, surprisingly I found that the way I use to punctual five years before, or attending the functions or the coming to office. I am not so nowadays. I am started becoming more lethargic day by day. Just take example of my timings to office. I was always planning to have my card swipe between 7:45 to 7:50 am. However if I make a graph or statistics I was always late i.e. I was coming to office between 08.05 to 8:15. This was something self analyses.

When I was going to have meeting with bosses, I was never punctual. When I decide to go home early, I was not punctual; even I know if I have to attend the marriage of any friend I have reached there at exact time or after marriage. Isn’t it funny?

These were the small things where I was not able to show a performance on punctually index. And I found that in the time management technique one of the skill is punctually. I have read several articles on the subject but still not able to work on it why this happen was simple reason – overconfidence and lethargic

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do”

There was consistent ignorance about this habit, which was one of the barrier in self development.

Thus, decided apply the time management principles. Let’s see that how I can become more punctual about time. After going through those knowing which were needed to apply , I found out the major reasons of not managing the time. This might not be common for all but was true with me. Simple reasons like below which may have complex solutions - 1) Too many things at once, 2) Inability to say “no”, 3) Stress and fatigue , 4) Unclear objectives , 5) Disorganization 6) Interruptions 7) Periods of inactivity 8) All work and no play

And I remembered suddenly was a Simple Funda of 6Ps .which were all about time management and punctuality and planning.
6Ps = Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.

Believing on about funda,started on acting on each things and now i am getting innovative answer. like below below :

About Meeting punctuality
I was talking with one leader about on a subject of adhering meeting punctuality,
What is a reaction, if the person to whom we have given a time to meeting and he is not coming on time? What is state of our mind and how we should deal with this situation?
There is circle of concern for person not coming on time but for the circle of control or influence is simple, We got a quick answer that give the time of meeting before 15 minutes of meeting. Go with in the meeting room with an article in hand.
- If the person is arriving late, we can finish up with article, -
- If the person is arriving on the time then well and good.
Simple solution for time management and peace of mind .. Isn't it ?