Inspiring Others to Work on Their Dreams

What is good leadership?

A leader is the one who does not only follow the right path but also leaves the footprints of wisdom that inspire others to follow those tracks to help them to achieve their self-esteem. Leadership involves the engagement of two or more than two people in which the leader inspire his follower or a group of followers to believe in their dreams and builds an inspiring vision to help them to achieve their desired goals and objectives of their life.

To me:

“Leadership is the art of making the difficult things easy for others, and a good leader is the one who makes it easier for everyone”

BK.

An effective leader possesses the following attributes:

• Establish an inspiring vision for his followers;
• Motivates and inspire others to believe in and to follow the specific vision;
• Takes a charge and full responsibility for achieving a particular vision;
• Formulates an effective strategy and manages the team effectively to achieve the desired vision

Nevertheless, there is no right or wrong definition for good leadership. It is just a matter of making the right decisions at the right time. According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, leadership is ‘the action of leading a group of people or organisation’.

What is public speaking?

Whenever we hear the word ‘Public Speaking’, what comes to our mind is that we are standing on a stage in front of hundreds of people and thinking what to talk about even if we know the specific topic to discuss. Public speaking is always been a fascinating job to be performed and public speakers have always been popular in the general public and are considered heroes of the society.

Public speaking is giving a presentation live in front of several people. Usually, the speakers are physically present in front of the listeners but now public speaking has transformed and now people are giving presentations and inspiring thousands of people by providing lectures and speeches through the internet by using different platforms such as YouTube, Podcasts, Social Media, etc. This has helped the speakers in several ways, some of them are listed below:

• Reaching to more people as compared to giving speeches and lectures live in front of the public;
• Saving much money for listeners and the organisers. No need for costly arrangements;
• Saves time and cost for the speakers as well. No need to travel to different locations that cost time and money;
• And more.

Significance of Public Speaking

For many decades, public speaking has played a vital role in evolving the lives of individuals and the group of people that belong to different backgrounds like Business, Education and even from Government sectors. An act of inspiring and motivating people through the words’ of wisdom have transformed thousands of lives and the overall system in the world in which we live and operate in.

Many organisations have designed a framework, especially in the high tech industries and the businesses and the services providers that are heavily dependent on the innovations, have indulged their workforce to communicate and build-up a two-way communication system within the organisation to remain competitive within their specific industries. This is also a sub-branch of public speaking, as it includes a leader to give a presentation and the followers to evolve themselves by coming up and discussing the new ideas and innovations to improve the company’s overall efficiency of the operations.

Whether the public sessions are being conducted live with the presence of the general public or whether it is being given on-line, it has several advantages:

• It improves the confidence of both the speaker and the participants;
• It encourages both the speaker and the participants to get involved more in research work, to acquire more knowledge on specific topic areas being discussed;
• It allows the participants to think critically and come up with new and innovative ideas to perform or execute a specific task to increase the productivity levels of the work;
• It also allows the businesses, individuals and Governments to communicate their product, services or ideology to their respective target markets or customers and people;
• And more.

How Motivational / Public Speakers help you to achieve our Goals

As we all know that all the famous and successful people have emphasized on being motivated to achieve the optimum results in any work of life, this is where the motivational/public speakers’ come in to help people to motivate them through the wisdom of words to achieve their desired goals.

Mostly, all the top-notch organisations and the aspiring individuals believe in seeking the right motivation from the relevant individuals, who help them to think positive and inspire them to take relevant actions to achieve their short and long term goals.

Motivational and Public speakers have some of the following attributes that make their presence so important in our society that we all see them as our benchmark:

1. Motivational Speakers help us to innovate new ideas

Sometimes we perform the same procedure repeatedly to execute or achieve our desired goals. Or sometimes we adopt several procedures as well but even then we are unable to achieve our goals. This is mainly due to the wrong course of action that we choose and get demotivated because of it. In this situation, motivational speakers can help us in achieving our desired goals, as their previous research work and their special instinct help us to think innovatively and to come up with the best and the most suitable course of action to be taken to achieve our desired goals.

2. Motivational speakers boost up our confidence

Main job and the purpose of the motivational speakers is to boost up the confidence level of the people and to make them realise their strengths and capabilities. This helps the people to boost up their morale and to have faith for themselves that they can achieve or perform a particular task or goals.

3. Motivational speakers act as a compeller

Sometimes we need someone else to tell us or guide us to execute a particular task. In this situation, motivators help us to start acting towards achieving our goals, which otherwise, we might not get ourselves motivated for that particular work. We must remind ourselves that whatever work we are doing is important for achieving the organizational goals and as well as our self-esteem. However, if we do not do so, then we should have someone who can remind us and motivate us and this what the motivational and public speakers are for.

About the School of Leadership (SOL)

As discussed the pros of the motivational/public speakers and the significance of the motivation in our lives, SOL is doing this job for the youth of Pakistan, who are ambitious and have the fire inside to do something big for themselves which can eventually help others to grow as well.

A month ago, I got a chance to visit SOL to take an interview of one of the gems of SOL, Mr Waqar Ali (CEO & Speaker). As he told us that, SOL is being evolving lives of thousands of young people through aspiring and motivating them to help them become what they want to be.

Mr Waqar has been a part of SOL for about a decade now and has transformed hundreds of youngsters through aspiring them and helping them to explore their passions and for what they are born for. It is really important to be self-motivated to motivate or aspire others, and after meeting with Mr Waqar I realised that how difficult it is to stay motivated all the time and emits positive vibes to make others feel good and to get inspired.

SOL has several projects going on such as:

• IMPACT – Speaking with no Fear
• Beyond Beauty
• Tameer se Takmeel
• And More.

You can visit the School of Leadership website to explore all the above projects and other training they have to offer.

A little Advise and the Outcome of the Interview

I have always believed that one should explore him/herself to dig deep down to understand his/her true passion. This helps us to have clarity in our vision and we can act accordingly to achieve our goals.

I think this is what exactly Mr Waqar has done at an early age, which became the main reason for his success in life. He tried to explore himself and tried to find the answer which he got it when he once participated in a seminar conducted in IBA (University in Karachi, Pakistan), and he got inspired by the speakers who presented in the seminar. He got his answer and he decided to become like one of them. Now he is inspiring and has inspired and transformed thousands of young generation and have helped them to find and to achieve their passions and goals.

I have a little piece of advice to all of us that, we should give some time to ourselves to identify our true strengths and passion so that what we do in our life we do it in the best possible manner and to become the best amongst all others in that particular work or field.

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You can watch the full interview here:

Sources Used in Blog Writing:

“What is Good Leadership?” – Mind Tools
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_41.htm

“What is Public Speaking?” – Envato Tuts+ Business
https://business.tutsplus.com/tutorials/what-is-public-speaking–cms-31255

“How Motivational/Public Speakers Help You Grow and Find Your Goals?” – Everything PR
https://everything-pr.com/motivational-speakers/

“About School of Leadership” – School of Leadership Pakistan
https://sol.edu.pk/aboutus

Personal Learnings and Experiences from Mr. Waqar Ali

“How to Motivate and Inspire Your People in Difficult Times” – Reliable Plant
https://www.reliableplant.com/Read/18525/how-to-motivate-inspire-your-people-in-difficult-times