Mike Kublin, President of PeopleTek Coaching discusses the importance of courageous leadership. Courageous Leadership is composed of 5P’s which include: passion, planning, persistence, profit, and people. These 5P’s are essential in living a life of courageous leadership, or courageability.
Learn more about how you can start living as a more courageous leader.
Behavior is what a man DOES, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
–Emily Dickinson
The behaviors we exhibit can either add to or diminish our value and the degrees of success we achieve. All of our behaviors must support our vision and our goals. They have huge impacts as to how others perceive us (authenticity), and they impact our ability to build and maintain levels of trust.
In honor of President’s Day, we’re sharing a C-Span Presidential Leadership Survey which reports the top 10 leadership characteristics.
Regardless of your profession or position, these characteristics provide value and can serve you well.
To make them more meaningful in the context of general leadership skills, we’re taking liberty with the characteristics and renaming them.
Do you view these as critical leadership skills? Are there any you don’t feel are crucial for success?
There has also been a wide range of inconsistent presidential characteristics as well: inventive, intellectual, serious, humorous, reserved, outgoing, kingly, unassuming, great communicator.
Not all leaders possess the same skills and traits–we’re all unique! We must recognize our gifts, develop and hone our growth areas, and leverage them to become an even stronger leader.
Here’s a U.S. presidential fun fact:
Some scientists say left-handed people “have a wider scope of thinking.” Others say left-handed people are more adaptable and resilient as they must compete in a world designed for righties.
Are you a leftie? What do you think?
PeopleTek’s Strategic partner, E-Coach, specializes in online coaching tools.
QwikTip for Having and Communicating a Powerful Vision
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In John Maxwell’s book, Developing The Leaders Around You, one of the key topics is that a leader’s toughest challenge is to create a climate for future leaders.
It takes a leader with a vision to see the future leader within the person.
–John Maxwell
Why? Because you not only need to recognize talent in others but you must also create an environment that will attract new leaders and allow them to flourish. (We also suggest maintaining a climate for existing leaders which allows them to continually learn/grow, and effectively influence those they interact with.)
Leaders must be change agents within their environment. The analogy in the book compares a thermostat to a thermometer.
Although they both measure heat, a thermometer is passive and records the temperature and can do little more.
The thermostat is dynamic; it determines the environment by enabling change and modifying the climate.
The climate within an organization and the attitude of the leaders are essential for having a consistently positive atmosphere which builds momentum.
Maxwell also says “momentum is the greatest of all change agents.” More than 90% of successful changes within organizations have been the result of creating momentum before asking people to change.
With momentum leaders look better.
With momentum followers increase their performance.
Tips to aid in the growth of leadership skills:
Leadership is a journey and like the thermostat, it must be dynamic. Successful leaders adapt to and influence change, and create a positive work environment.
If your work climate is not desirable, how successful do you think you and your organization will be?
PeopleTek’s Strategic partner, E-Coach, specializes in online coaching tools.
QwikTip for Change Initiative
And for those with a QwikCoach license, refresh your existing skills and acquire new skills by visiting the QwikTips library for leadership ideas and techniques. If you don’t have QwikCoach, it’s an excellent resource for growing your leadership skills remotely that you should consider.
Help turn your leadership knowledge into leadership action!
Graduates of PeopleTek’s Leadership Journey Earn:
Mike Kublin, President of PeopleTek Coaching interviews Marilyn Brown, Executive Coach, PeopleTek Coaching.
https://youtu.be/QNjtoEvoDOI
As leaders, we frequently spend too much time doing tasks; we are working in the business rather than on the business. As leaders, we need to step back from the tactical work and spend more time on strategic thinking and innovation, and on coaching and developing others.
That’s why delegation is so key. It frees time and provides an opportunity to develop others.
The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t.
–Anthea Turner
There are numerous reasons for not effectively delegating. The most common are not trusting that the job will get done to our satisfaction (not trusting our team), discomfort with assigning a boring task, or feeling guilty that the workload will be too great.
It doesn’t take much to start delegating effectively and confidently, though. Below are some tips to help.
Effective delegation will increase morale, build your talent pool, and strengthen trust within your organization, ultimately growing results and improving your bottom line!
PeopleTek’s Strategic partner, E-Coach, specializes in online coaching tools.
QwikTip for Developing People for Optimal Performance
And for those with a QwikCoach license, refresh your existing skills and acquire new skills by visiting the QwikTips library for leadership ideas and techniques.
If you don’t have QwikCoach, it’s an excellent resource for growing your leadership skills remotely that you should consider.
Help turn your leadership knowledge into leadership action!
Graduates of PeopleTek’s Leadership Journey Earn:
