Inspiring talent through leadership

You can use leadership skills in order to find the unique contribution and ability of each member of your team. This can help you to have a more successfully run business and more efficient output from each member of your team.

Passion-
What do each member of your team love doing? If you want to inspire talent and encourage success in your business it is best to tap into the passions of the people who work for your company. What are they interested in? What do they love? When they talk about something, what brings a sparkle to their eyes or makes them excited about life? Can you use this to your advantage, or to promote them in their work? If they love the great outdoors, do you have a product or campaign, or service that has something to do with the outdoors, that you could assign them to so that their passion can be seen in their work?

Talent-
What do each member of your team do best? When someone is good at something, they often take pride in it, do it more efficiently, and are going to work harder at it. Talent is key to success in business. If you can tap into their talents, or use their talents in their job, the results will be far better. They will like what they do more, they will do a better job, you will see more success. Encourage your team to discover their talents, do they have a way with people? Are they a wiz on the computer? Can they turn anything into a beautiful piece or art? Utilize those, capitalize on them.

Conscience-
What should each member of your team do? This is not just fulfilling their job description, this is what should they do for the community, the world, etc.? When someone is doing their job as they should, they feel better about themselves and life, and thus each employee should be encouraged to do not just what their job description entails, but what it takes to make a difference.

Need-
What is the need of the community? Leaders can inspire talent and work in others by helping them see how their work is helping to fill a need in the community, and the lives of those whom they serve. This is great, people like knowing that what they are doing is making a difference, that they are not just going to work everyday and coming home, but impacting lives. Help them see the need, and help them see how their work can fill that need.

Leadership requires more than helping employees stay on task, it is about inspiring them to greater heights so that the company grows to greater heights as well. This is not maintaining a status quo, but changing the status quo, raising the bar, and meeting and exceeding expectations.