Opportunity Knocks

Giving your followers or those who report to you small opportunities to lead will help build their confidence and help to build their leadership skills. If you have aspirations to become a leader and are not in that type of position you need to look for opportunities in which you can lead.

Here are some opportunities you might consider that will help you with your leadership skills.

• Serve on a committee and volunteer to lead one of the projects. Ask to be the chair of a committee and start letting those leadership skills shine.
• Look for ways in your job to be a leader. Maybe there is a project or something you are working on where you can hone those leadership skills.
• Find a leadership class, seminar or a training session that your company will pay for and take it. Take it all in and learn what you can.
• Find a mentor who can help evaluate your leadership skills and help you find other opportunities within the company.

Follow this things and you will start to form into the leader that you want to be. Remember opportunity knocks so open the door when you hear the knock.