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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Leadership is Conflict Management

Leadership must manage conflict management!  Leaders will undoubtedly face team and organizational conflicts.  But leaders must approach each conflict as an opportunity and maintain respect and keep emotions in check through conflict management.  As people negotiate for organizational resources during execution activities, there will come times when conflicts arise over:

• Initiative/Project priorities;
• Key organizational resources;
• Budgets; and
• Time/Schedules.

These are just a few areas that will bring about change within organizations.  Leaders will need to address each conflict with sound resolve and steady emotional intelligence.  Leaders should address organizational conflict professionally and openly.  Leaders can address organizational conflict by:

• Negotiation;
• Active listening;
• Identify issues;
• Establish plan;
• Identify responsibilities;
• Create priorities; and
• Execute plan.

There is no doubt in my mind that leadership will face conflicts during organizational activities.  Leaders have differing agendas daily. There will be times of conflict that leadership will need to address.  The important lesson here is that leaders address conflict as an opportunity to grow, rather than retreating, which may lead to a toxic workplace environment.  Visit BLeadersEdge.com for more information on conflict management training and many other leadership topics. Thanks.

Mike

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