BUSINESS LEADERSHIP

Business Leadership

Business Leadership

Introduction

In the simplest of term, leadership can be defined as the art of leading people. In a more elaborative term, it can be defined as a process of influencing someone socially, enlisting support, and aid for the accomplishment of a task (Bennis, 1997, p.12-14). The importance of leadership is exceptionally high for any kind of business. It is one of the most valuable skills that the business owner must possess to manage the people in an effective way. Bill is facing the problem of managing his team because he has not been able to lead this sales team in a proper way.

Due to this issue, he is not feeling comfortable with his work. He is not at all satisfied and needs advice to overcome this problem. First of all, leadership is one those skills that every person does not normally possess. It comes naturally and is an in-born skill. However, some people who do not have this skill get an opportunity to become a leader in their respective field. It happens because of their continuous effort to acquire leadership skills. Though, it takes time, but the person learns it with the passage of time. Therefore, the aspect of leadership will be discussed in detail in this topic (Tichy, 1997, p.25-30).

Main Body

There are various things which he needs to adopt to manage his sales team. The first thing that the person would need to do is develop the influence among his team members. However, before doing this, he will have to establish a strong relationship with every individual team member, and, will need to conduct frequent communication with them. Through these ways, his confidence with the team members will even increase. All these efforts will make it easy for him to interact with the sales team in ...