A leader brings value that encourages others to display mentoring leadership…
A long term decision to display mentoring leadership all the time; not sometimes, will happen when the leader takes 100% responsibility for their business…
Everyone is looking for mentoring leadership all the time even if they are not aware of it.. A leader who doesn’t market or tell people simply what they want to hear, else the result would bring false and malignant expectations. Leaders will always invest in themselves. They will invest in the things that are in need of help. This is done with a little self assessment, say you are bad at a couple things, one being generating leads at a 2 out of 10 scale and the other being closing at a 7 out of 10 scale. If you double your efforts with generating leads you will still be a 4 which is still not very good, and if you double your closing efforts you will be at a 14, and now you are hitting home runs. The leader would have picked closing because it will make up for their lack of skills in the other areas. Non-leaders would have picked generating leads and would still be waiting to find someone to close.
Leaders don’t always go with the crowd.
Anyone of high value (a leader) in any organization will stick even if their guru leaves a company. A leader will make a tough decision that they are going to stick with what they have and recognize the fact they have the skills to build what they already have rather then going to look for the next best thing.
An awesome mentor/leader of mine Ray Higdon is one guy you should be following to see what you should be doing to become a leader in your business.
