If you were to stop this course right now, you will have a formidable set of tools to set you on the path to leadership. You can inspire and motivate a team and show them how to weather a crisis calmly, so the whole team and the organization wins. But there's a little bit more to leadership than this. For example, up to the moment, we've considered that everybody is more or less on board with your vision with your overall goal. Now, this may not be the case, you may have a disagreement, you may have more than one disagreement. So what do you do in these circumstances?

It's quite common, but some people really do not want to be there. So what happens when two or more people think is just a bit of a joke? What happens when someone has a bad attitude and is just trying to create problems, not just for you, but for the whole team. This is when leaders are split into two groups. You have the one group that will play with this stuff and try to be liked. They may make it into a joke.

Try to be on the same page against the system or to generally be chummy. Then you have the other kind of leader who will try and instill fear and tell the member of staff that they will be fired or sent under the department or otherwise punished if they don't mend their ways. Suffice to say that it's not good to be best mates with your staff. There needs to be some distance and some reason expect some mutual respect. Likewise, taking a fully fear based approach is also a mistake. This ultimately makes you an enemy.

And it creates a stressful work environment for your team. It also provincial team from attempting to be fully creative or expressing themselves because they'll be fearful of repercussions if they get things wrong. So we need to reframe the original question, is it better to be feared or liked? Neither, it's better to be respected. You need to become an in charge in such a way that people want you to like them. This will be a because they respect you and be because they understand that you can help them and that what you want is Best for the whole team.

If the team sees that you're trying to help the team, and that you're trying to help them to do the best they possibly can, then they will tend to respect you. If they see you as a leader that they look up to, that they will want you to respect them. One of the best ways to gain respect is to give respect and mutual respect. And the same goes for being likable. If you help people and you really like people, then they will reciprocate and you will be liked. It's a two way street.

A good leader needs to be able to work with colleagues from all walks of life and should value what each of them brings to the team equally. In fact, more diverse voices will mean a more diverse set of opinions and views. And so a more diverse skill set. You can occasionally make jokes at your own expense, laugh at yourself a little bit, join in the fun, and even allow others to point for you. This shows strength and confidence. The key is to make sure you don't allow this to cross the line and that you don't tolerate staff trying to push their look by taking a joke too far, just to see how far you will go.

You shouldn't allow them to test their own limits too far, just to see how far they will go for their own amusement and the amusement of the team. The overall effect will set a precedent and will not be good for Team efficiency. And of course, you can't physically punish someone or stop them behaving in a certain way. If you can't reason with them, and if you can't gain their respect by giving them Respect, then what can you do? What do you do when you have a dissident that will not follow the rules and will not listen to you. This brings us on to the next module.