Good Leadership

What makes a good leader is the use of effective management skills. Great leaders understand that some of the best leadership qualities entail listening to others with undivided attention.

Great leaders with excellent management skills encourage input and change, and the best way to measure them is based on feedback they get from their best people. People usually give the best scores to leaders you trust and to leaders who listen.

So those executives who were smart enough to leave lots of time for Q & A got better grades than those who lectured. And those managers who encouraged a dialogue with the team came out on top.

Essential Leadership Qualities 

• To be successful as a leader, you need a combination of two ingredients: character and competence. You need to be a person of integrity. Someone people trust and are willing to follow.
• Integrity is perhaps the most valued and respected quality of leadership and one of the most important management skills you need to attain. By saying what you’ll do and then doing what you say, you will build trust around your team.
• Do you stand up and speak out for what you believe?
• Do you demonstrate the courage to stay the course when the going gets tough and the outcome looks uncertain?
• What makes a good leader is the ability to stay calm and in control, especially when everyone around them is wondering whether it’s the right decision or if it was a mistake to commit to a particular course of action.
• When you exude confidence in yourself, in the decision, and in the people around you, you instill the same feelings and attitudes in others.
• Leaders have what is called “courageous patience.” Between the decision and the result, there is always a period of uncertainty when no one knows if the effort is going to be successful.
• You must lead by example and obtain management skills that inspire others. At the same time, you must become excellent at the key capabilities and functions of leadership and set yourself on a course of continuous improvement throughout your career.
• “You need the humility to remind yourself that you’ve got to get better at everything you do,” Humility doesn’t actually mean being humble . . . “Humility simply means you have a burning, driving, relentless ambition to serve and to win,” it was once said, “Without the arrogance to delude yourself into believing that you are all knowing or always right.”
• You must believe in yourself, and be convinced that you have what it takes to succeed and that you can get better.