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Discussion on: Initiatives leaders can take to seize opportunities within organizations

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Susham

Leadership is more than just showing a way to others. A leader should be able to challenge the existing process and seize opportunities if deemed necessary. A leader is always ready for challenges and learns continuously from the processes.

Seize the opportunity

Manage Risk
Taking the challenge doesn’t mean blindly accepting the risks without any calculations. Leaders should be calculative and take risks measuring the effects cautiously. They weigh the pros and cons of taking a risk, determine if this is reasonable to take this experimentation and try to minimize the risk as much as possible.

In the world cup finale of 2011, Mahendra singh Dhoni, who usually bats down the order, promoted himself up to bat before Yuvraj Singh after analysing the pitch condition and observing the direction of the game. He scored an unbeaten 91 to lead his team to win the world cup.

Sharing Organizational Values

Leaders continuously engage with others. They observe their followers, try to identify their vision and align them with the organizational values and vision. When the goals are aligned, then productivity increases and the process and activities become more effective and efficient. Sharing the vision helps others to act independently without seeking for orders from the leader. This leads to the growth of employees as well as the organization.

When earthquake shook the nation back in 2015, fellows who were in different districts initiated the relief process before there was any official news from Teach for Nepal. The fellows are sent to the community as change makers/leaders who would work for the communal development. Sharing these values and empowering the fellows helped them initiate this action without waiting for any instructions from the organization.

Training and Development Activities

Developing skills of the employees is essential as they make the employees feel valued and gives an opportunity to the organization to grab any opportunities as a result of such developments. Besides, being more skilful also aids in making the process much easier for the organization. For instance, digitizing the existing manual process not only makes the storage part more efficient, it also helps the employee develop reports easily and in a short amount of time.

Lead Courageously

When the stakes are high, even if the process involves high risks, leaders lead with a lot of courage. They are proactive and lead from the front. They take this opportunity to show why they are the leaders. They do not shy away from taking the responsibility even if things do not go in a desired way.

In wars, the captains are the ones that lead from the front and in time of escaping, they are the last ones to leave.

Seek for Opportunity

Opportunities do not come knocking your doors. One should grab it as soon as they are identified. Leaders should be observant and mindful to notice any opportunities that come and be ready to take advantage of the opportunities. This is a world of collaboration. Leaders are constantly looking for ways to maximize value for their organization. They seek to collaborate with organizations which would help create value for them.