QUALITY OF A GOOD LEADER Think the impossible to realize the maximum possible – Be bold and brave. Exercise tough empathy towards your team – Give them what they need in your opinion, and not necessarily what they want. Be effective and efficient at the same time – Do the right things in the right way. Practice execution as an art – Be focused on making decisions and implement them until the very end in the best possible manner. Stay human, approachable, and show respect – Choose being people-focused over task-focused, even and especially, when push comes to shove. Be resilient and display a can-do-attitude – If something does not work, try something else. Be positive and radiate confidence and strength. Over-communicate and you´ll over-perform – Teams, peers, business partners, etc. need clarity and transparency. Recruit, develop and empower the best fitting ones – Make sure that there is a „cultural“ and mental fit between company and employees built on a „psychological contract.“ Work hard, smart and have fun – No output without input. At the same time you should love and enjoy what you do. Only then you can be highly passionate and committed. Under-promise and over-deliver – Walk your talk. Inspire – Think, behave and communicate beyond pure targets and figures. Stimulate people around you to play and to experiment. Stay true to yourself and your core values – Adapt yourself, if necessary. Never bend yourself. If not, you might break and might lose your heart and soul. Believe in the good – Stay always open-minded and curious without being naive. It´s all about the long-term – If needed, forgo and sacrifice short-term profit and benefits for the sake of long-term growth and sustainability. Lead a holistically fullfilled life – Life is much more than work and making career. Spend enough time with family, friends, and loved ones. Relish your hobbies and passions without bad feelings. Inspire action – Try to paint a vision of the future that inspires your people to do whatever it takes to get there. The best leaders also clear away the organizational roadblocks that constrain employees’ natural creativity and initiative, unleashing a tremendous amount of energy in the process. Be optimistic – We all want to work with and for people who lift us up into the clouds instead of dragging us down into the mud. Make sure to seek out the positives in your people, helping them overcome their own feelings of self-doubt and spreading optimism throughout your organization. Have integrity – Research shows that the top thing that employees want from their leaders is integrity. Be honest, fair, candid and forthright, and treat everyone in the same way that you yourself would want to be treated. Support and facilitate your team – For people to do their very best work, they need an organizational environment that supports them by making it safe to take risks, to tell the truth, and to speak up … without being punished for doing so. Support your employees by creating this kind of environment, and it will facilitate their progress toward attaining your organization’s goals. Have confidence – Highly effective leaders know deep down inside that they and their team can accomplish anything they set their minds to. Failure is not an option. Tentative leaders make for tentative employees. If you’re confident, your people will be too. Communicate – In any organization, knowledge is power, and great leaders ensure that every employee, from the very top to the very bottom of the org chart, is provided with complete and up-to-date information about the organization’s goals, performance, successes and failures. To achieve this level of connection, you should also provide ample channels for two-way communication between employees and managers, actively soliciting their ideas for improvement and rewarding employees for submitting them. Be decisive – One of the most basic duties of any leader is to make decisions. Highly effective leaders aren’t afraid to be decisive and to make tough calls quickly when circumstances require it. Once you have all the information you need to make an informed decision, then don’t hesitate–make it. And once you make a decision, then stick with it unless there is a particularly compelling reason for you to change it. Self-awareness - Knowledge of your own values, passions, skills, strengths and weaknesses. An ability to admit and learn from mistakes and to seek information to fill knowledge gaps. Integrity - A strong sense of “what is right” and a demonstration of ethical practices that sets the tone for others. A commitment to teaching by example. Courage - The strength to act in accordance with your own values and the greater good despite pressures pushing you in other directions. The ability to put the cause before the desire to be popular. Confidence - A belief in your ability to meet most challenges that come your way. Vision – A strong sense of where you are going as a person and where you think society, your community and your organisation should be going – and how it might get there. Enthusiasm - A lively interest in the people, issues and events around you, a feeling of excitement about the possibilities, and the energy to guide them towards fruition. Innovation - The ability to “think outside the box,” take risks and develop new and effective solutions to old and emerging problems. Wisdom - Intelligence coupled with insight and empathy, as opposed to raw intelligence. Adaptability - A willingness to be flexible and to respond quickly and effectively to changing circumstances, along with a commitment to continual learning – formal and informal – and the ability to put that learning into practice. Strong inter-personal skills - An ability to interact and work harmoniously with others, while being prepared to take on individual responsibilities. Effective communication – A willingness and ability to listen to and understand the thoughts, ideas and concerns of others and to clearly communicate your own. A vision is nothing if it can’t be sold to others. Belief in others – The desire to build the capabilities of others, praise them where appropriate, go into bat for them when appropriate, provide them with helpful feedback and motivate them to do their best. Peer respect - An ability to inspire respect, allowing a person to capably lead discussions, maintain discipline and encourage the contribution of others. Insight – The ability to see the big picture, coupled with a strong sense of what stage you are at along the path, and intuit problems before they arise or before they become insurmountable. Sense of humour – The ability to laugh at yourself and relieve tense or stressful situations with humour. Competence - Others are unlikely to follow the lead of a person who does not appear to know what s/he is doing. Delegation skills - A willingness to trust others and cede some responsibility. SUPPORT JKA...LIKE THIS PAGE...
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