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How To Achieve Leadership And Rise Above Entry Level
Not everybody is a born leader. But that doesn’t mean that you cannot become a leader. You can…
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Not everybody is a born leader. But that doesn’t mean that you cannot become a leader.
You can achieve leadership qualities and skills by self-learning and making self-efforts.
As a result, with your leadership personality, you will be able to face any challenge in life.
This also applies to the times when you are in entry level careers, jobs, or positions.
If you’ve developed the leadership qualities and skills, you’ll always rise and shine wherever you are and in whatever you do.
The need to develop achievement oriented leadership is essential because no matter in which profession you are and where you are in your career, you are at the entry level at some time.
You have to start anew, and you cannot avoid that.
Now, that can be whenever you leave college and get a job, or even if you change a job, change your profession, or when you get promoted and get a new job.
You’re not literally back to school or exactly back to square one, but at all these times, you find yourself in an entry-level position.
It is challenging because you might find new colleagues, have different ways of working, alien work environment, and the pressure to prove yourself.
You’ve got to face the challenge by learning how to function above entry level in all situations, positions, and places.
To succeed, excel, and progress, you need to go above the entry level, separate yourself from the crowd, in order to shine and rise in your new place, job, or position.
If you have the leadership qualities, you’ll smoothly sail through.
In this post, I’m reviewing a course that can help you do just that, no matter where you are in the world.
It is an online leadership mini-course from Concordia University, and it is titled “How to function above entry level”.
This course is for your personal growth and to develop leadership.
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How To Function Above Entry Level
Whenever you want to achieve anything, you need to know what has to be done, why it has to be done, and how it has to be done.
The learning of “how” is the most important element of achieving goals.
This course will make you understand your personal strengths to help you move forward in both, your professional and personal lives.
It is divided into three lessons.
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In the first lesson, you are taught about how to master the internal and external forces that determine your behavior, personality, and actions.
The second lesson is about developing emotional intelligence and social intelligence.
If you are wondering – what Emotional Intelligence (E.I.) is, I have the definition for you –
“Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive emotion, integrate emotion to facilitate thought, understand emotions, and to regulate emotions to promote personal growth” (Mayer & Salovey, 1997).
It is all about enhancing the understanding, controlling, managing and expressing the emotions.
Emotions either makes you or wrecks you. If you know how to manage your emotions, you can increase your productivity and achieve more.
In this lesson, you also learn how to enhance your social skills and understanding. It is about Social Intelligence (S.I.).
“Social intelligence (SI) can be described as the capacity to successfully negotiate complex social relationships and environments.”
If you develop your emotional and social intelligence, you can adjust to any situation, excel in any job, and easily achieve your goals.
The third lesson is about how to know and understand the key areas in your life that help you self-lead or place you above entry level.
In this self-leadership course, you will learn how you govern yourself at any level, as it teaches you the essential strategy and processes to do so.
The “How to function above entry level” course helps you make a significant step in life and career.
Wrapping it Up
Two more things you should know about this course – it is free, and I’m not an affiliate.
This is a sponsored review but I’ve gone through the course, and I really find it helpful.
The Functioning Above Entry Level online course will help you to gain the confidence and boldly move forward in your callings.
I highly recommend you to join the Concordia Leadership Course.
You’ve got nothing to lose but only to gain.
This mini-course is free and will be delivered directly to your inbox. It may take up to about 1 week and a few hours to complete, but it’s worth it.
All the course content is taken from Concordia University Wisconsin’s 100% online one year Master’s in Organizational Leadership and Administration.
It consists of essays, videos, interactive polls, and download-journals or worksheets.
Dr. Ken Harris, Program Director for the Master of Science in Organizational Leadership and Administration at Concordia University will take you through the course.
It doesn’t matter if you live in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia or Europe; this course is going to help you achieve your goals and gain leadership skills, and function above entry level.
Hope you join and enjoy the course. 🙂
Over to you –
What leadership qualities do you find helpful at the entry level? Which leadership development skills are required for personal growth and success in career? Will you join this online leadership training program? Share in the comments.
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Hie Vinay, Thank you for your great article.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way, I really like that you talk about how a good leader will be creative and come up with innovative solutions for certain problems. I’m impressed at the topics that are mentioned, especially Emotional Intelligence. you also explain the 3 leason that are mentioned, especially Emotional Intelligence.
i look forward to reading more from you.
Hi Vinay sir
It is true that without leadership quality we can’t face any challenges. In any situations, if we are in the position to face any challenges than that shows our leadership quality and for that moment we will be the leader who is going to handle that situation.
I’ll definitely follow steps which were given by you in this article and that too, especially during attending interviews for jobs. Special thanks for an image which includes the quote Harold S Geneen.
Thank you once again for this post.
Thanks! Life is a learning process which never comes to end. Success matters on your learning that how pick or acts in a situation which puts you in some useful thoughts to solve it. A good team leader is born who can predict that what happening to be next and prepare him or her self to solve it. Although success depends on many attributes like hard working , focusing on target, intelligence.
“You can’t lead others without leading yourself.” This is the clincher for me. Most people overlook it but personal leadership is crucial to the attainment of goals and objectives. I love that this course focuses on personal leadership, especially EI and SI. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Vinay,
What an exciting question you left at the end of the post. I have always found entry jobs easy. I get bored easy from them, but I always care about everything that is attached to mine name. So regardless of how mind numbing these jobs can be, I always give my all.
I have worked with a number of leaders. Some far more efficient than others. And one of the biggest things I learnt was if you treat people with respect and show some interest in them, you will have workers that want to do the best for their leaders. If if the manager is pushed for time, knowing a persons name and one story they share – will have a better result than a leader that instills fear into their employees.
I have always found decisions makers exciting and generally get a long with them. However I have also gotten into debates where I have been put back in my place when we disagree. Its funny my bosses always rathered me agreeable.
Great post Vinay.
Rachel
Hi Vinay
Great topic indeed. Thanks for doing the review and sharing information about this course. Very interesting that it include topics such EI and SI. These are very important skills for leaders to have. Leadership positions are not easy but it is something great for one to aspire to.
Have a great day/week.
Hi, Vinay
This seems like a good course for person who want to be leader. It offers both Emotional intelligence and social intelligence.
To be good leader, both qualities have to be there. If not, it will create in balance in most situations.
This course seems like to be more towards practical side which is required for the real world.
– Stella Chiu
Hi Vinay,
This sounds like a perfect course in leadership. I’m impressed at the topics that are mentioned, especially Emotional Intelligence. There are courses out there that seem to leave this part out and to me, it’s one of the most important. We have to know where we are emotionally if we are ever going to step up to leadership in any shape or form in life.
We need to know ourselves honestly and that takes work. It can be a disaster if someone is a “leader” and does not have his/her emotions in check.
Socially is another great reason to learn about ourselves and how to deal with others in situations. They will come up and we need to be prepared.
Sounds wonderful and I’ll pass this on.
-Donna
Hi Vinay,
It has been a long time since the last time we spoke. I hope all is going well for you and your family. I know me reading this post isn’t a coincident.
Tonight I start my new position at work. It’s a leadership position that I’m excited to have. I must tell you that I’ve applied twice for it and was turned down both times.
My boss said he was waiting for me to step my game up at work and take the initiative more. My plan is to continue to learn and grow.
Looking back I can honestly say I wasn’t ready. I know I will benefit from this course because I need and want to improve my social and emotional intelligence skills.
Thanks,
Vernon
Hey Harleena,
This is my first visit to your blog. I have heard a lot about you on internet. I came here from Enstine’s blog and I must say that I really enjoyed reading your blog. You have got quite interesting articles on your blog. Looking forward to read them all 🙂
Hi Harleena,
It’s been so long since I have commented. Uggghhhhhh. Anyway, I am so excited about this course. I’m going to sign up for it . Any idea of how long of a course you think it is? Thanks for sharing a great resource. Happy New Year my friend. Hope life is going fantastic.
Irish
Hi Vinay,
Thank you for reviewing a course like this, one that’s free and easily accessible to everyone. It’s true: anyone can become a leader; we just need to know how to go about doing it. I think emotional and social intallect can be easily overlooked, but they are both so important in any kind of leadership position.
You’re right: signing up for this is only a winning investment.
Be blessed,
Rylie
Hi Vinay and Harleena,
Thanks for sharing information about this course. Social Intelligence is a very important skill for leadership, and the free course is an amazing resource to help people achieve their full potential.
Sorry I have been AWOL from your blog for too long – 2015 was not an easy year!
Joy
Hello Vinay, It’s true, we never know when we’re going to be called upon to assume a leadership position. Perhaps it’s at your job, or a volunteer organization or even your neighborhood. Being prepared ahead of time is a good idea.
I like how this course deals with the social and emotional aspects of leadership. So often someone might have leadership qualities “on paper” but they just don’t translate to effective leadership skills in real life.
Thanks so much for letting us know about this course, Vinay. It’s great that it’s free and available all over the world!
Hi Carolyn,
That’s right, we need to prepare ourselves for success in whatever we do. And it’s not only about general leadership in the sense of leading a group of people but also about self-leadership – how you lead yourself on to the success path.
It is so important to understand ourselves, how we work, what affects us, and how can we be more productive and improve ourselves to progress and reach higher levels. Our thoughts and emotions are like engines that need to be understood, controlled and then propelled in the right direction.
This course leads you into more depth and specifics that not only brings a better understanding of yourself but also equips you with practical tips.
Yes, the best part is that it’s free, you can receive it just as you receive latest post updates when you subscribe to a blog. I hope it helps you and others. Thanks for visiting and sharing your views. Have a great day ahead!