Hospitality Leadership - Definition, Importance of Leadership and Role of Leaders

Hospitality Leadership - Definition, Importance of Leadership and Role of Leaders. Here we will mention the points of leadership, basically the characteristics of a leader and how he influences his surroundings and the people towards success.

NOTES BY: Manish Sharma, Lecturer at Amity University Noida (Amity School of Hospitality)

Leaders help themselves and others to do the right things.
i) They set directions
ii) Build an inspiration
iii) Vision and Creating something new




LEADERSHIP DEFINITION:

Leadership is basically guiding a group or an organization towards a particular goal. A leader is a person who does the following:
i) Create an inspiring vision of the future.
ii) Motivate and inspire people to engage with that vision.
iii) Manage believery of that vision.
iv) Coach and build a team and ensures that it is effective in achieving the vision.

IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP:

Leaders...
i) Initiate actions
ii) Motivate
iii) Provide guidance
iv) Creating confidence
v) Building morals
vi) Build Work Environment
vii) Co-ordination
viii) Honest
ix) Courage
x) Commitment
xi) Risk Taking and that too calculative risk taking

ROLE OF LEADER:

i) Required at all levels (low, medium, high etc)
ii Representative of an organization
iii) Integrates and reconcile the personal goals with organizational goals.
iv) He solicit support
v) Leader as a friend, philosopher and guide.