An effective team leader - Leninka Lazo

I would like to discuss about a leader who inspired me a lot. This leader was my first boss. I worked with him many years since I finished the University. He was the first leader who influenced me to become a better person too. Even now, every time I go back to Peru, I met my boss even once.

 I think a key factor to become a good leader was the trust.  Even when you make a mistake, I knew he would help me fix it. It was not just the mistake of one of the team; it was a mistake of the group.  For me this is very important because I began to work as a team and I felt I was in an excellent teamwork and also friends.

In addition, he has the personal skill of working under pressure. He taught me how to work with a high amount of pressure and still have the time to continue my personal life.

He always tried to motivate me even when the work was very hard. I think it is very important to have the motivation of your boss and that affects your performance too.  He gave me a lot of empowerment even when I was so young for the job.

Another factor was the empowerment. The team knew what our mission was in the company and we were very motivated to do to our best job. We felt free to make decisions even when we made mistakes in the process. The good thing is we learned in the process.

 Also, the personal skills are very important, he had empathy when someone of his team was passing through very difficult moments. He knew how to tell me to take a break from work in order to fix my personal problems.

 He had a lot of organization in his work. He taught me how to organized my job. At first, for me was very hard to plan things. I didn’t have a schedule about my work. However, he put pressure on me in order to organize my team and me.  

Finally, I think a good leader is someone who is going to last with the time because of all the influence he has in you. Even, when you work in different companies, all his learnings helped to become yourself also in a better leader.