A good leader is someone who can lead you by example. Here is a story about one leader who
influenced me.
In the starting days of my career, I have all the confusion
and doubts about my career as any new hire would have. Fresh out of college and being new to
corporate world, iam not habituated to
work for long hours with patience to complete an assignment. I was honest, hardworking
but fickle-minded and easily distracted. I didn’t have any long term goals at
that time. I just wanted to earn, make my family happy, spend and enjoy.
This was the time I met a team lead for my first assignment.
He seemed to be strict, explained all the terms and introduced me to other team
members. He introduced me to different people or I can say experts in different
fields whom I can contact for help in office. I felt welcomed to the team,
started understanding the work and enjoying my time without any interest of
improving my technical skills. I was improving on my work though.
One day my lead suggested that I should improve my technical
skills, network with other experts in the same field, read technical blogs,
participate in technical debates, contribute in quality initiatives, explore
new technologies, implement new ideas and last , but not the least enjoy the work
iam doing. I have seen him doing all the
above and he became my role model or a leader leading by an example. He
participates in all kind of technical discussions in forums, guides other
people to solve problems with his experience. He talks to all the team members,
connect with them personally to improve their comfort levels and motivate them
to work with collaboration. He recognizes flaws in the current process of
software development and proactively suggests quality initiatives and best
practices to improve the quality of software. He is open- minded and listens to
every individual in the team for constructive feedback.
I feel fortunate to learn all the good qualities from him and
use them in shaping my career. This made me grow as a real consultant and also
a pragmatic lead in my career. Now, I will become another leader in action.
Until next time,
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