What’s Your Favorite Leadership Role?

What do you like most about being a leader? We captured a variety of reasons our clients have shared with us and what they liked most was: (in no particular order)

• One on One Coaching
• Sharing knowledge, skills, and experiences
• Driving Results
• Identifying and executing goal attainment
• Creating a true team with members that support one another
• Helping determine a career path
• Providing healthy feedback
• Inspiring others to do more
• Being viewed as authentic and trustworthy
• Decision Making / Strategic Thinking

SmartPulse conducts frequent, non-scientific polls of more than 200,000 subscribers and one survey that caught our eye was one about what leaders view as their favorite role. They asked:

What’s the best part of being in a leadership role?

1. Helping my team members develop, grow and succeed:                        52%
2. Having control over the way things run:                                               4%
3. Being able to set direction, take risks and make things happen:             34%
4. Being visible and valued in the organization:                                         6%
5. Overcoming the challenges leaders face every day:                               3%
6. Something else:                                                                                 2%

When you looked through the list, what popped out at you? Is your favorite leadership role part of the list?  If no, please share it!

Sincerely,