A Framework for Cultivating Good Leadership Skills

The following leadership traits provide you with a framework to design your own personal leadership development plan.

1.Cultivate emotional intelligence & personal accountability:

• be your authentic self
• set & respect boundaries
• clarify personal values
• establish clear and distinct personal and professional goals
• develop effective self care habits

2.Commit to never-ending, continuous improvement:

• Set high personal standards and work hard to achieve them
• Practice self assessment and reflection.

3.Develop response – ability and be accountable to your followers:

• Listen and hear the whole person
• Provide honest and supportive feedback to develop resonant relationships.

4.Manage stakeholder expectations:

• Be sensitive to and honest with your stakeholders
• Relate with and invest in your relationships
• Treat everyone with respect and fairness.

5.Cultivate a participatory culture:

• Without judgment or blame
• Where all are engaged and invested
• And mistakes are seen as opportunities for creativity and innovations.

6.Model Behavior:

• Identify unaddressed issues and face challenges with courage
• Unleash the talents, energy, innovation and creativity of your team
• Acknowledge mistakes and learn from them
• Create space for confidence, creativity and innovation to flourish.

7.Invest in Others:

• Share knowledge
• Help people discover hidden talents and work to their strengths
• Build, inspire and guide your team

8.Delegate effective:

• Assign the right job to the right person
• Provide motivation, training and support
• Establish benchmarks, success measurements and provide regular feedback
• Stay out of the way and trust your team to do their best

9.Get Things Done - Create clarity through:

• Open discussion
• Goal setting
• Effective decision making that sustains momentum

10. Communicate effectively:

• the right message to the right people in the right way…consistently

11.Acknowledge Progress and Celebrate Success

• Recognize your team for good performance, contributions, excellence and celebrate together

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. Donald Curtis

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