Question

Many great leaders are thought of as good motivators. Do you think it is possible to be a great leader without being a great motivator? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Many great leaders are thought of as good motivators. Anyone can become a leader without being a great motivator, but it is not possible to be a great leader without having motivational skills.

A leader is someone who leads a team to achieve a specific goal. And the person who leads should have a thorough knowledge of the specific goal of the group. Otherwise the leader with no vision is like blind man leading a journey or a letter without a stamp; it will never reach its destination. For a leader it is very important to have thorough knowledge about what is to be done at the same time he should also should have the ability to motivate a team.

Motivating simply means to prompt someone to do something or drive someone to achieve something or inspire or influence someone or stimulate someone's skills or provoke or trigger someone. Or it actually pushes an individual to work hard at achieving his or her goals. Even leadership is used as a means of motivating others. And also we should never forget the fact that to become an efficient leader, once must be self-motivated also.

If we are coming to organisational management scenario motivation plays a critical role in employee productivity, quality and speed of work. Now a day in organisations there is employs that are having different culture and background working under same roof. It is very much essential that to bring their work or efforts in focus to achieve the common goal. So here comes the need of efficient leadership with the ability to motivate a team. In these kinds of situations a leader with motivational skills play an important role in pushing all employees to work for the common organisational goal.

By quoting the words of Brian Tracy (Canadian-American motivational public speaker) -Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. If someone wishes to become a leader like Brian Tracy mentioning. you have no other way than building motivational qualities.