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Leadership is Discipline

Leaders must have discipline!  I am not talking punishment, but rather the body of knowledge.  Discipline is a key leadership trait.  Leaders who are not disciplined will not succeed.  Great leaders continually self-develop, adding to their discipline.  A strong knowledge base will provide leaders with the understanding to perform during critical situations.  For instance, leaders might rely on discipline for:

• Instilling team action;
• Inspiring others;
• Motivating team members;
• Commitment;
• Accountability; and
• Adaptation.

These are a few areas where leadership discipline will benefit leadership success.  Areas that leaders can extend their influential leadership discipline include:

• Formal education;
• Industry-recognized training;
• Reading leadership publications, and
• Practice.

Leaders who continually add knowledge to their discipline will continue to grow and identify new techniques to challenge teams to deliver in new and exciting ways.  Leadership is continuously growing, and leaders can stay abreast by consistently adding to their discipline.  Thanks.

Mike

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Leadership is Character

Today, we will discuss character as it pertains to leadership

Leaders’ character may be considered one of the core foundations of influential leadership.  When we look at ourselves and develop our influential leadership character, we must understand our values first.  Our core values reflect directly on our character and our leadership character.  Do our values reflect in our leadership style?

We may also consider looking at our moral fortitude.  Do we have a strong character to leverage into influential leadership to guide others in a consistent, yet correct manner to deliver quality results that align to organizational goals?

Influential leadership character is critical during times of team adversity.  Why?  Well, trust and respect re-enter the picture based on how an influential leader responds to adverse times.  We want to deliver during adverse times as leaders.  This is when leaders shine, even though they may gain scars from tough decisions.  There are questions to consider when looking at your leadership character.  Some include:

• Is your character aligned properly to deliver results in a non-biased manner?  
• Are you organized?
• Are you ethical?
• Do you offer strong beliefs and values? 
• Are your skills fresh? 
• How about your emotional intelligence level during each decision? 

Are you looking at these areas consistently to strengthen and align your character to an influential leadership development vision and plan you should keep close as a leader?  Influential leadership character is a main area of focus that leaders should maintain a development plan to strengthen over time.  Thanks.

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Leadership is Teamwork

Leadership teamwork starts with you and your self-awareness.  Why start with self-awareness?  Well, you have personal goals, right?  If you do not, then why are you doing what you do for work?  Well, those goals likely align with the team and organizational goals at this point.  You should be aware of the personal, team, and organizational goals. Why, well, teamwork, great teamwork that is, is built by aligning teams and people with the organization’s:

• Goals
• Mission
• Vision
• Values
• Ethics

Aligning with the organization will help teams deliver success.  This is the foundation for building strong leaders in the organization.  Teamwork aligns teams to deliver and achieve together.  Leaders will plan and define the necessary steps to deliver success.  Great leaders will also delegate, set expectations, establish accountability, and remove obstacles to help teams strive to achieve success.  Great leaders need strong teamwork.  It is one of the key foundations for delivering results. 

Great leaders will build strong teams by establishing:

• Trust
• Respect
• Loyalty
• Accountability
• Clarity

Sure, there are more leadership characteristics, but these will definitely be a solid start for leaders to help build strong teams.  Teamwork needs to be built on trust.  Leaders will allow teams to work towards objects with as little supervision as possible.  But they must first define boundaries, align expectations, define responsibilities, and remove obstacles to allow the teams room for success.  Great leaders will find that there are many ways to build teams and establish strong teamwork.  Each team is unique and trust me, I have had many teams in my career.  The important thing here is that great leaders will build the teams on a strong foundation while providing a clear framework to deliver results.  Thoughts?  Thanks.

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