Top 5 Attributes for being that Leader that People Want to Partner With

1. Value Ideation and Problem Solving over competition and self promotion. Fear of failure, public criticism or toxic leadership is generally a weapon of someone not comfortable enough to create conditions to win, grow, and innovate from. Praise Public, enforce positive values and partnership over fear based self promotion, excuses, stepping on others to elevate yourself or your team, or survival of the fittest mentality. These are leadership Persona's who embody positive Best Practice Leaders realize there is less right or wrong, and instead more experience, approaches, and competitions, diversity of views creates culture, options, and engagement.

Kirk Weisler is a Chief Inspirer of how to be a positively contagious leader and how to keep that feeling of motivation as many WANT to feel when starting something new, may your "new day" be every day working in and being accountable to your personal, company, and industry best practice advancement.

2. A Referral is a Gift! When someone takes time to recommend you, endorse you, refer business to you company, enhance your business, or recommend employees, your action sets the stage for far more than just this transaction. Fan's of your company, your employees, their referrals to others in business, to job seekers, to prospective clients, to the best practices community, are a great advertisement for the good you do, until you repeatedly fail to appreciate, acknowledge, follow up or follow through on that which they suggest. Failure to show up, follow up, appreciate and acknowledge positive press, is the surest way to make Referrals and Recommendations support your brand. The goal in how you handle your fans, your employees, your referrals and recommendations is to bolster your brand with positive communications and follow through.

3. Become a better Business Story Teller to Attract business. Create a brand and a connection to your community by being example of business process excellence. Resist the temptation to build yourself at another's expense. People see right through the story teller that builds that elevates themselves by negative stepping on, comparing, or contrasting themselves to their competition. Success and positive results breeds more success.

4. Caring Capacity, not Connection Volume, is what Creates Business Influence! You miss the quality and capabilities of business networking by viewing social media or conference contacts as an increase in people. The number of people in one's personal contact list mean's nothing compared to the powerful connection quality to those few people that truly value meaningful business partnerships, creating quality customer relationships, and caring for their industry. The issue is not how many people LIKE your posts, or how many people you add after every conference, its about what happens when business leaders agree to stay connected because you are certain its a chance to connect, extend and create value by staying in touch and continuing to learn and grow together.

5. Best Practice Networking involves passion for practice and continuous improvement- its in showing up, giving & receiving some experience. Ron Mun's, original founder of HDI, created a community, and a forum for leaders to evolve. These are leadership Persona's who realize that there are many ways to solve a problem, and are interested in the myriad and varied approaches to excellence. What you give out to your network, tends to come back, if you are giving out good and best, expect to receive good and best.. But remember adversarial behaviors are also multiplied. Ron' Mun's and his HDI network created a foundation for living for so many of us.

HDI's Ron Mun's Lifetime of Achievement Award celebrates people who embody best practices networking because they are so dedicated that their lifetime of commitment to leadership.