How To Become A Super Team Leader In A Virtual Workplace

By Rudolf I. Malle

Are you a manager, entrepreneur, small business owner, supervisor, or CEO of an organization? What was your initial thought about your team when COVID-19 first hit us? Did you feel confused? How soon did your organization or company decide for staff to start working from home? This book was born out of the middle of the COVID19 global pandemic. In this book, Rudolf takes you on a journey of how the global pandemic has changed our lives and how it has and is continuing to change the workplace culture. Rudolf highlights the importance of leadership decision-making and the impact of the decisions on the company's present and future state. If you are ready to explore, let's dive into it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Challenge Publishers, Inc
• Release date: May 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201898458

Rudolf I. Malle

Born, raised, and educated in Cameroon, Rudolf Itor Malle is not just another American immigrant story, but he is "The American Success Story with distinction." Rudolf quickly entered into entrepreneurship after earning a Bachelor's degree in business management. Rudolf has been involved in numerous entrepreneurial ventures, including website content creation, graphics designs, business consulting, startups, and angel investing – he is one of the founding members of Angel and Entrepreneurs, led by Niel Patel. After multiple years in the medical field, Rudolf went to earn a Master's degree in Medical Research from Drexel School of Medicine. Rudolf discovered his love for teaching, coaching, and training his team members amid his thriving medical research career. Rudolf has always been a prolific reader from his early age; he has read and listened to over 80 books from different genres, including medical textbooks, psychology, music, history, the ancient empire, romance, and business, over the last 5years. Rudolf decided to initiate a new phase of his professional life as a book writer. His groundbreaking works include Getting Motivated for Success, The Secret to Affiliate Marketing, Building your tribe, and currently Dark Psychology. Rudolf is enjoying his newfound love of writing and book publishing. He is assuring his readers that he has many more works to unfold.

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Introduction

THE MOST POPULAR DEFINITION of Leadership is now irrelevant. The leader we knew at work, those we adored from afar, and those we considered perfect will trail away in a few years to come. Their leadership skills will no longer be relevant in the coming years, whether they are alive or not.

For emphasis, Leadership is a critical factor in every business. It is the singular most important factor that determines the success or failure of every company. It is a bridge between the company and customers. It is also a bridge between the staff and the company. Your company’s Leadership will determine how your company will perform now and in the future. Whether you will soar or sink, your leadership style is enough to decide.

Before the coronavirus era, most people had an impression of what the perfect business leader. They recognize the standards that every business leader must attain before they are considered a success. With the coronavirus emergence, however, all that standard is in the mud.

Change is the most permanent and inevitable feature of human existence. Whether in politics, cultural ethics, or business standards, we will change according to our needs. The dramatic appearance of covid’19 has demanded a change in our perspectives. We have started to see our relationships, business interactions, and growth in a whole different way. As individuals and giant industries, ultra-rapid change is happening to us. The virus made us see our work life, marketing, purchase, education, and other aspects in a completely different way. And evolving is the only option that we have.

The workplace as we knew it has changed. The work system has evolved, and the work structure has ceased to be what it was. The new system needs a set of exceptional leaders who can spot the latest trend and keep the businesses floating, leaders who know where the world is coming from, where it stands, and where it is heading. It requires leaders who can shift from yesterday to the new needs. These are the only leaders that will flourish with their businesses.

Unless you know how to change and you do it, you are not safe.

The only way to scale the transition with your business is to learn the ropes. You need to know about the effects of the Coronavirus on the world, recognize the meaning of the remote workplace, and your chances of survival. It would help if you learned about the pandemic and your business.

How can you know? What do you need to know? How much damage has the Coronavirus done to businesses and Leadership? Will your company survive after you know?

Ask more questions.

Go on.

You can settle your mind upon that this book is the final answer to all your curiosities. From the start to the end of the book, I present a practical guide to evolving as a business leader. You will learn why change is necessary and how you can do it. You only need to consider my recommendations, and you will survive as a phenomenal business leader.

Chapter One

Leadership in Business. What Was It Like?

HOW DO YOU KNOW A TRUE business leader?

Get a group of business students together at Harvard, London, New York, Chicago, or Kellogg. Put this question to them and wait for responses. You will be impressed. You will be enlightened. You will be appalled at the same time.

I have shot this question in several business gatherings and seminars, and I have dotted it between novices and experienced business folks. The most impressive fact about my experience is that no matter where I asked or how the respondents choose to do it, they are always wrong. In essence, no one has ever got the correct answer from the start. If you pause for a second and think about the answers, the chances are that you will get it wrong too.

Leadership keeps the world moving; I have come to know that. It determines the shape, structure, and economy of the world in general. Even Leadership determines how or if at all something is going to be successful or not. Every human establishment, particularly business, will remain a damp squib without Leadership.

All of that isn’t news, at least to many people. What the average man does not know is the exact art of Leadership. How do you emerge as a leader out of the blues and lead people to fulfillment? How do you know a true business leader?

The mistake is rampant enough. You have to thrash it now. Too many people think of a business leader in terms of popularity or show, or force. They believe the business leader is the physical lion of Judah. They go around with the impression that a genuine leader is an ironclad director. She is the one who gets everyone shaking in their shoes. You’d either get her instructions done or get yourself in a deep mess. This category of directors wields control with one of two weapons; money or threat. You’d either get the job done or get back on the street. You can also face a more profound threat tied to the intensity of the job at hand. In many cases, they use both weapons.

The other group of people premises that a leader is a sensational director. She is the conscientious director who treats others the way she wants to be treated. Business students expect that she is empathetic and approachable. They believe that she can warm her way into people’s hearts such that they revere her and do her bidding. And that makes her the true leader.

As a business student or leader, you must swallow the hard pill from now. If you have been going around with either of these impressions, you have swallowed the wrong notion. A business leader is much like a chameleon. There is no one way to treat people or control them. One fact about leading is that the same person can be empathetic and autocratic. You cannot tell a successful business leader through these features. They are traits. They are leadership styles, and you must accept that they are not Leadership themselves. Before you make any mental note of leadership styles in traditional or modern businesses, you must find a convincing answer to the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question.

What is true Leadership in business?

LEADERSHIP IS NOT POWER. It is neither the possession of extraordinary skill. It is the ability to actualize the original goals of the business. Over the years, I have come to recognize that business leadership is unequivocal. Your ultimate job is to pore over the business. Weigh up the goals of the company and push to make it happen. If you cannot sit at a business and hit its goals, you have failed as its leader.

You must understand that you are not constricted to a particular strategy or tactic. Adopt whatever your find best under the circumstances. Your success will be etched in terms