Leadership Characteristics can be learned over the course of a career and the following page will show the most important characteristics of successful leaders, which have been demonstrated over time. Whilst not an exhaustive list, it represents the most important traits for a Leader to be successful and therefore a good benchmark for others to…
Leadership Definition – What are the Commonalities?
If you search for a Leadership definition…… here are some examples of what you’ll find: “Someone who exercises influence over other people.” (Huczynski et al 1993) “Creating a vision to which others aspire and energising them to work towards that vision” (Anita Roddick) “Without a Leader, nothing happens…” (Michael Hammer) “The capacity to create a…
How do you define Leadership?
There are many ways to define leadership, but in essence, it “is a process that influences other people to achieve an objective.” Now that’s out of the way, let’s see what that really means. It is about being forward looking, Inspirational to others, and orientated to achieve results, winning the hearts and minds of those…
A Second Chance
By: Orlando Lopez (Colorado Springs, CO, USA) My professional career — 18 years and counting in the USAF — was established from a single failure. In the Spring of 1996 I failed a mandatory block of instruction during my technical training phase. Policy dictated that I be afforded a second opportunity and If I passed…
The Smoke behind the Fire
By: Mr.leader (texas) In this lesson and reading many examples of what separate leadership vs manager I want to share several traits that I believe is essential to be being leader and manager first is the ability to lead from a secondary statue for example I was a community supervisor for twenty years plus however…