I recently attended a round table meeting sponsored by our industry organization Infocom. The presenter had the mission of informing the audience on how organizations should be focused to survive our current economic downturn. In light of that discussion I wanted to resonate his comments, and add some personal insight from a "Leadership" perspective.
There are Six important qualities that all leaders posses, and they are present at the time a child starts to play with others. As the child grows, the characteristics start to take shape and help lead him or her to their ultimate leadership roles. These six qualities are confidence, creativity, compassion, courage, clarity and conviction or charisma.
Confidence - A true leader instinctively knows how to lead. Of course, this is a leadership development quality that must be practiced, attempted, refined throughout someone's life. However, knowing they can lead their team to victory or knowing they can organize and meet the monetary goal for the charity sale is sign of a true leader. In addition, if there is an argument over who should be leader, a good leader knows to step back; it is sometimes through the perception of others that they will gain ultimate leadership.
Creativity - Leadership development involves a great deal of creativity. A true leader is not afraid to try new things. The lead car sales representative may not be the one who sells the most cars; he may be the one that sells only two very expensive cars. There is something to be gleaned from that analogy. He or she knows how to use the available energy.
Compassion - Compassionate leadership development is necessary in today's workforce. Gone are the days where employees work for decades at the same company, regardless of the conditions. Today, employers deal with single parents, expensive childcare, sick children, no insurance, and poverty level conditions. A leader in the workforce who cannot or does not show compassion towards their dependents will soon find themselves a leader of none.
Courage - Very early in leadership development is the courage to stand up for what you believe in. A leader has a passion -- and can embrace the sympathy of others to follow that passion. Of course, leaders are not all perfect people. There are many leaders (i.e. Charles Manson) who are very bad people, but they were fantastic leaders. There are also very affective leaders in every war, they are not liked or celebrated, but they had the courage to fight for their beliefs.
Clarity - Effective leadership also incorporates the ability to clearly view the mission and communicate the vision to execute the mission within an organization. Communication which is not focused, and targeted obscures the actual objective.
Conviction or Charisma - Leadership development also includes the ability to charm a crowd, one person at a time. Whether campaigning for human rights or free speech, and effective leader knows how to charge the audience.
There are Six important qualities that all leaders posses, and they are present at the time a child starts to play with others. As the child grows, the characteristics start to take shape and help lead him or her to their ultimate leadership roles. These six qualities are confidence, creativity, compassion, courage, clarity and conviction or charisma.
Confidence - A true leader instinctively knows how to lead. Of course, this is a leadership development quality that must be practiced, attempted, refined throughout someone's life. However, knowing they can lead their team to victory or knowing they can organize and meet the monetary goal for the charity sale is sign of a true leader. In addition, if there is an argument over who should be leader, a good leader knows to step back; it is sometimes through the perception of others that they will gain ultimate leadership.
Creativity - Leadership development involves a great deal of creativity. A true leader is not afraid to try new things. The lead car sales representative may not be the one who sells the most cars; he may be the one that sells only two very expensive cars. There is something to be gleaned from that analogy. He or she knows how to use the available energy.
Compassion - Compassionate leadership development is necessary in today's workforce. Gone are the days where employees work for decades at the same company, regardless of the conditions. Today, employers deal with single parents, expensive childcare, sick children, no insurance, and poverty level conditions. A leader in the workforce who cannot or does not show compassion towards their dependents will soon find themselves a leader of none.
Courage - Very early in leadership development is the courage to stand up for what you believe in. A leader has a passion -- and can embrace the sympathy of others to follow that passion. Of course, leaders are not all perfect people. There are many leaders (i.e. Charles Manson) who are very bad people, but they were fantastic leaders. There are also very affective leaders in every war, they are not liked or celebrated, but they had the courage to fight for their beliefs.
Clarity - Effective leadership also incorporates the ability to clearly view the mission and communicate the vision to execute the mission within an organization. Communication which is not focused, and targeted obscures the actual objective.
Conviction or Charisma - Leadership development also includes the ability to charm a crowd, one person at a time. Whether campaigning for human rights or free speech, and effective leader knows how to charge the audience.
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