Empowering Your Life to Help You Fulfil Your Life Purpose and Mission!

We are not Rambo, aren’t we?  We cannot live this world alone anymore (perhaps it was possible in the past but I am not qualified to make any further comments).

In all corporate organisations, employees are often formed teams to carry out particular tasks, projects, or assignments.  Unfortunately, there is one thing that must happen – and like one of my ex-bosses said, “People Come, People Go because no one is indispensable!”   You may say that my ex-boss was cruel and mean.  I leave it to you to decide.  That said, the HR department is always curious as to why employees decide to leave the organisation.

Research shows that one reason why an employee leaves his work even if he is a high-pay employee is the “attitude of supervisors or managers“.

Instead of motivating and leading the teams to accomplish the team’s goals, supervisors and managers might be too  busy enforcing their power over their followers. Instead of helping their teammates to grow and achieve the objectives, they are only bossing their subordinates around and are unwilling to share and pass their knowledge and skills to others.  How many of you know what I am talking about?  Thank you.  If you have supervisors and managers like this in your company or group, you will notice a high turnover of employees.  If not, those employees must have very high tolerance level, true or true?

Kings, princes and even sultans can be born rulers. However, great leaders are developed and made. Nobody has a birthright to become a good leader. You have to understand that rulers aren’t necessarily great leaders. In order to become a great leader, you need to be a follower first.

Here are my three reasons why a leader should be a follower first:

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