The Characteristics & Qualities of a Good Leader

Leadership principles also articulate and translate your organization’s core values into behaviors. Using defined leadership principles acknowledges the importance of leadership in an organization. A company’s core values define the how and why it does what it does.

In fact, we discovered that when leaders are at their personal best there are five core practices common to all: they Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and last but certainly not least, they Encourage the Heart.

• Integrity.
• Ability to delegate.
• Communication.
• Self-awareness.
• Gratitude.
• Learning agility.
• Influence.
• Empathy.

• Principle #1: Extreme Ownership.
• Principle #2:There are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
• Principle #3: Believe.
• Principle #4: Check the Ego.
• Principle #5: Teamwork.
• Principle #6: Simple.
• Principle #7: Prioritize and Execute.
• Principle #8: Decentralized Command.

The Big 6 Leadership Principles®

• Set the Azimuth.
• Listen.
• Trust and Empower.
• Do the Right Thing When No One is Looking.
• When in Charge, Take Charge.
• Balance the Personal and Professional.

The number one principle of effective leadership communication is the ability to inspire those around you. As a leader, you have a vision of success that you want to achieve with the help of your team. It’s up to you to rally your team around that goal and help them embrace the vision, too.

According to the seven Cs, communication needs to be: clear, concise, concrete, correct, coherent, complete and courteous. In this article, we look at each of the 7 Cs of Communication, and we’ll illustrate each element with both good and bad examples.

THREE PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

• #1 – Imagination, creativity, and innovation create new opportunities.
• #2 – Managing time, stress, and information enables sustainable improvement.
• #3 – Encouragement, inspiration, and mentoring help people grow and flourish.
• Possibilities for Our Future.

5 Key Elements that Define Effective Leadership

1. Ability to delegate tasks. Often, leaders are perfectionists: they have a particular vision and they want to drive their staff, and their company, to reach that vision.
2. Excellent communication.
3. Confidence.
4. Honesty.
5. Creativity.

There are typically two types of leadership: instrumental and expressive. Instrumental leadership focuses on achieving goals. Leaders who are dominantly instrumental work to maintain productivity and ensure that tasks are completed. They make good managers because they get the job done.

Leadership style is a leader’s approach to providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. In 1939, psychologist Kurt Lewin and a team of researchers determined that there were three basic leadership styles: Authoritarian (Autocratic), Participative (Democratic) and Delegative (Laissez-Faire).

Great Leadership Behaviors

• Being grounded in ethics and integrity.
• Building trust.
• Bringing others along.
• Inspiring those around you.
• Making decisions.
• Encouraging innovation.
• Reward achievement.