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Much has been written about the characteristics of great leaders. I have found 13 characteristics that hold true for the great leaders I have known. There are other ingredients to excellent leadership, but if you have all 13 of these characteristics, you are probably one of the elite leaders.
Great Leaders:
- Operate from a set of values
- Are Congruent and live their vision
- Are passionate and infect others with that passion
- Value Transparency
- Have high Emotional Intelligence
- Never stop learning
- Believe work is play
- Balance the needs of stakeholders and don’t worry about popularity
- Foster great followership
- Make large trust deposits
- Practice ubiquitous reinforcement
- Do better in a crisis
- Develop others
To read the details of these 13 dimensions, see my white paper.
Article by Robert Whipple
Bob Whipple is CEO of Leadergrow Inc., a company dedicated to improving leadership in organizations. He is also a professional speaker, and a member of National Speakers Association. When speaking, Bob uses the brand name of "The Trust Ambassador." He has been named by Leadership Excellence Magazine one of the top 100 thought leaders in the country on leadership development. He has three published books on the topic of trust and over 200 published articles on various leadership topics. He specializes in Trust in the online environment and how we can improve connectivity in e-mail and other forms of virtual communications. Contact Bob at 585-392-7763 or visit his blog at The Trust Ambassador
Robert has written 17 awesome articles for us at Elephants at Work
Twitter: @Rwhipple
