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“What makes a good leader?” I was asked across a dinner table. I have been thinking and researching about this for the last 15 years. It even resulted in my writing a book “The Leading Edge – Manager’s Guide to Success”. Just recently I had the pleasure of working in a leadership think tank with two great New Zealand Leaders, George Hickton and Don Tricker. They shared with me their viewpoint that one needs to separate those leadership traits that need to be in your DNA from those skills that can be learnt.

This article covers the eight traits that need to be in your DNA if you wish to lead large teams and fifteen skills that can be learnt.  It contains 30 pages designed to help readers to understand how far their current leadership behaviour traits will take them.  The article also comes with some electronic media, eg: templates, and checklists to assist you appraise your potential.

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Contents

• Leadership Traits That Need to be In Place
• Trait #1: Integrity and honesty
• Trait #2: “Love thy neighbour as thyself”
• Trait #3 Self-awareness and self-regulation
• Trait #4: Abundance of positive energy
• Trait #5: Decision making and risk taking
• Trait #6 Seeing future opportunities
• Trait #7 Excel in a crisis
• Trait #8 Learning agility
• The People Orientated Skills to Master
• Mastering Communication and Public Relations
• Recruiting and Promoting the Right People
• Develop and Maintain Stakeholder Relationships
• Selling and Leading Change
• Provisioning for the Team
• Develop, Engage, and Trust
• Valuing Results and People
• Valuing Work Life Balance
• The Personal Skills to Master
• Have a Vision of Your Legacy
• Embrace Abandonment
• Define the Mission, Vision, Strategy and Values
• Transforming Performance Through Clarity of the Organisation’s Critical Success Factors and Associated KPIs
• Champion of Innovation, Quality and Learning
• A Focus on Execution
• Using Your Mentors and Safe Haven Effectively

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