Becoming a Better Leader
As a leader in your organization, your leadership skills, expertise
and abilities are no doubt constantly challenged, regardless of the
size of your organization. At times you may wonder if you really have
what it takes to keep the business alive and moving forward. If this
is the case, take a few moments to review the following list of leadership
effectiveness qualities.
Research shows that the highest level of leadership effectiveness is
achieved by those who strive to:
- Learn to be comfortable with change and uncertainty
- Increase their comfort with risk
- Share power
- Acknowledge their limitations
- Determine for what they stand
- Willingly put the interest of their team ahead of personal ambition
and self-interest
- Access both their emotional and rational sides
- Project a positive, upbeat, optimistic outlook, even if that is
not how they feel.
Source: Hagberg Consulting Group, California.
Inspirational Quotes
Unsure about that last management decision you just made? Hesitant
about the tasks that lie ahead, for which you as "leader"
of the organization are responsible? Draw strength from the "words
of wisdom" below, and contemplate the fact that others may one
day look back on your thoughts and actions and consider them "wise."
"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated.
You can't cross a chasm in two small steps."
~
David Lloyd George
British
Prime Minister WWI
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where
they are to where they have not been."
~
Henry Kissinger
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to
test a man's character, give him power."
~
Abraham Lincoln
"If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do
a thing, in either case you are right."
~
Henry Ford
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Authored by: Jackie Rasmussen, Business and Industry
Specialist, University of Missouri Extension
Source: Creating Quality Newsletter, Volume
10, Number 9, September 2001
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