Becoming a powerful leader

There's a brilliant post about leadership at the Dumb Little Man blog where 7 simple tips are given to turn you into a powerful leader. It's actually an inspiration read. You can read the post here.

The blog post goes into much more detail, but the seven tips are:

• Goals: Make it simple and easy for your team to understand the mission and to understand their part in achieving it.
• Motivating people: What you reward gets done. It's that simple.
• Walk your talk: You need to practice what you preach. This is how you establish trust and credability.
• Inspire: Through a combination of unwavering positive future vision, commitment to improve and the ability to bootsrap when resources are tight.
• Process power: Good process is like having a high performance machine. Sloppy process makes things fall apart.
• Change: Embrace change by seeking it out. This will tread a path for your teammates to follow.
• Advocacy: Support your team and they'll support you.

Really good simple advice. I hope to become a headteacher in a few years' time. These tips will help me to establish myself as a good leader.

Take a look at the full blog post at Dumb Little Man.