{"id":392,"date":"2018-02-14T18:39:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T07:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2018-02-14T18:39:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T07:39:41","slug":"by-definition-a-leader-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/by-definition-a-leader-is\/","title":{"rendered":"By definition a leader is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-394\" src=\"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/followers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/followers.jpg 640w, http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/followers-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>By definition a leader is someone who has followers.\u00a0 If you are unable to gather the support of others to assist you in achieving your team&#8217;s objectives you will be unable to lead the team.<\/p>\n<p>This means that good leaders need to have good skills in persuasion.<\/p>\n<p>If you are struggling to get others on your side, to get what you want from the people on your team &#8211; either up or down the chain of command &#8211; it may be that your persuasion skills need some work.<\/p>\n<p>As a successful leader you need to be able to carry yourself with confidence and present your ideas, vision and message so that you persuade others to join you in realising your vision.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be respected for your capacity to get others &#8216;on board&#8217; with your agenda<\/li>\n<li>Know how to turn a No into a Yes<\/li>\n<li>Discover the simple secrets to being consistently more persuasive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>have a look at our latest quick guide: <a href=\"http:\/\/kmginfo.com\/go\/persuasion\"><strong>Persuasion for Busy Leaders\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/kmginfo.com\/go\/persuasion\">http:\/\/kmginfo.com\/go\/persuasion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not designed to make you a leading academic authority on persuasion, just a much more persuasive leader in as little time as possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmginfo.com\/go\/persuasion\">Click here to check it out now<\/a> and see if it&#8217;s something that could help you be the best leader you can be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By definition a leader is someone who has followers.\u00a0 If you are unable to gather the support of others to assist you in achieving your team&#8217;s objectives you will be unable to lead the team. This means that good leaders need to have good skills in persuasion. If you are struggling to get others on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-skills","category-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}