The Importance Of Self Leadership

One of the most important parts of leadership cycle is self-leadership which means leading oneself and it is the first step of this cycle. In other words, self-leadership is the ability to impact individuals’ capacity, performance, traits, and communication in order to achieve their goals and get success. It encourages self-leaders to take the initiative to learn more and improve their skills for high performance in their jobs or tasks. In this way, they are not alone because self-leading individuals can ask their leaders to give them training or mentoring or they can demand inspiration and feedback from their leaders. Also, leaders or managers in organizations should transform their command and control acts to partnering approach to their subordinates. As a result, this relationship between leaders and people, who are being led, not just creates partnership and high performance but also diminishes managers’ direction burden and empowers individuals. For these reasons, I want to develop self-leadership in my journey to team leadership, but I need three main skills of self-leadership, including challenging assumed constraints, celebrating my points of power, and collaborating for achievement. Initially, I should challenge my assumed constraints, in other words, I need to break free from thoughts about my past actions which restrict my future development. In fact, many people have such widespread assumptions in their daily life or workplaces which are perceived as