Well-cultivated self awareness
- Leading with conviction — Identify your values and beliefs, and let them guide decision-making, even if it leads to unpopular decisions.
- Using emotional intelligence — Recognize your strengths and weaknesses, and manage your emotions.
- Earning trust and loyalty — Be willing to admit mistakes, do what you’ll say you’ll do and pay attention to the concerns of others.
- Energizing staff — Encourage strong work ethic and enthusiasm by modeling it personally.
Compelling vision
5. Developing vision — Set a future vision for your organization that anticipates changes and includes strategies to adapt to them.
6. Communicating vision — Help stakeholders understand the desired future state, and communicate their role in reaching that state.
A real way with people
7. Listening like you mean it — Be approachable and open-minded.
8. Giving great feedback — Set clear expectations and provide criticism and praise when appropriate.
9. Mentoring — Invest time in developing direct reports.
10. Developing high-performance teams — Create incentives for employees and leaders to work together, and select managers who collaborate well.
Masterful execution
- Generating informal power — Understand the informal sources of power in your organization and work to influence them.
- Building true consensus — Frame issues from multiple perspectives and work to find shared values and pain points.
- Mindful decision making — Make decisions based on a mix of facts, goals, ethics, alternatives and judgments.
- Driving results — Set high standards and hold people accountable.
- Sustaining creativity — Be open to new ideas and ways of approaching work or challenges.
- Cultivating adaptability — Bring clarity to ambiguous situations and be open to adjusting course if needed.
