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Sound list. One aspect that is top of my mind at the moment, because of someone I’m working with, is your point 6, about blame.
The person I’m working with is in their first ever leadership position, and it’s a big one. My belief in working with her is that the biggest single change she has to make, from being a junior member of staff in a different organisation to being the leader of another, is to accept responsibility, however difficult that may be.
From an outsider’s point of view, person X, or Y, or Z might actually be cocking things up. The systems in use may be awful. There might not be enough money in the budget. But, however true any of those things are, blaming them is simply not leadership behaviour – leadership behaviour is about identifying these things, and then fixing them or finding a way around.
This nice clear list is a useful context to base leadership analysis on, and discover our own failings…the first step to doing something about them!
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This is a topic that’s close to my heart… Many thanks! Exactly where are your contact details though?
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Way cool! Some extremely valid points! I appreciate you penning
this post and the rest of the site is really
good.
THANK YOU. I am applying for a leadership position within my company and was having a hard time explaining how I could bridge just being good at what I do and actually standing out as a leader. Your list is invaluable because I do most of these things already but did not know how to word them.
Great post!
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