The 7 Traits of Excellent Leaders

Are you a leader or a manager? If you do not know the difference, you're probably in the wrong job. A leader energises and motivates their team to achieve seemingly impossible goals. A manager makes sure the process works. A leader has a powerful sense of mission and purpose. A manager makes sure all reports are in on time. Leaders innovate. Managers, they manage.

Do you think this is a bunch of New Age business-seminar babble, I share this with you: in the twenty-first century, understanding the difference between leading and managing is understanding the difference between winning and losing in cut-throat markets. Global competitiveness is so intense today, and there's so much sameness in products, that you will succeed or fail ninety-eight percent of the time because of your company's people. This is people of `any` age!

"One of the distinguishing characteristics of `excellent`, enduring organisations is that they put a lot of thought into the development of leadership," say Jim Collins, co-author of acclaimed Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

Ask yourself whether you and the leaders that you recruit possess the following seven key leadership traits identified by a study by Caliper, the global psychometric profiling company:

1.YOU MUST BE ASSERTIVE

The best leaders are still the ones who know when-and how-to get tough. They know how to assert their authority.

2. YOU MUST HAVE EGO DRIVE

Ego drive is the desire to persuade. And if you didn't like to persuade people-if you weren't thrilled with getting the "yes"-you wouldn't be in sales in the first place.

3. YOU MUST POSSESS RESILIENCE

It's been said that great leaders are like Hall of Fame baseball hitters-they succeed only one out of every three times they come to the plate. When a leader loses a battle, he has to have the ego strength that allows him to maintain his optimism and move on.

4. YOU MUST BE A RISK-TAKER

In a competitive marketplace, the winners are often those leaders who are willing to try, dare, even make fools of themselves.

5. YOU MUST BE INNOVATIVE

Hand in hand with being a risk-taker is being innovative. Great leaders know that the "old ways" of doing things aren't always the best ways-especially in a rapidly changing marketplace.

6. YOU MUST BE URGENT

In a customer-driven marketplace, the need to get things done now is critical to winning and keeping business. Wait until tomorrow to submit that proposal, and a hungry competitor might get in the door ahead of you. Leave at 5:30 instead of staying late to address a client's problems, and that client may be someone else's before long.

7. YOU MUST BE EMPATHETIC

Leaders are tough, driven, daring. But they also have a heart. They possess as much compassion as they do competitive fire.

Business and general life is about dialogue that we `all` understand and respond to. So make the playing field equal, so all people understand the language used and the action to take, to receive and accept, so business life and general life is successful for `all` involved.

Yes, you can achieve all things in life by your attitude to be positive, you have the solution in you, so go forward and use it now!

What are your thoughts on `Excellent` leaders?

 Business life is no different to your personal life, so treat your fellow person with respect.

Remember- the difference between Ordinary and Extraordinary is just that little bit extra.

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