Champion Leadership Tip #50 - My Top 5 Leadership
Qualities - The Only Ones You'll Ever Need
by
Skip Weisman
Word Count: 486
I ask your indulgence for a little self-congratulations!
This week I celebrate this blog as today marks the official 1-year anniversary
of the Champion Organization's blog and the 50th Champion Leadership Tip.
We began this journey last November 9th, so today marks the end of the
year, next week will begin year #2.
Congratulations to ME for actually maintaining my first venture into
consistent blogging.
To celebrate I thought I would cull through the 49 other Champion
Leadership Tips and pick what I believe to be "The 5 Most Important
Champion Leadership Qualities."
I began thinking about the "Top 5" prior to starting on a new client's 8-week
Champion Leadership Training program for its middle level managers.
One of them asked me in some pre-work what were the most important
Leadership Qualities they should be aware of, and so I started developing
these at that time, enjoy:
1. Self-Leadership – 5 Traits of a Champion Leader
In 2009 I developed an executive leadership coaching philosophy based on
these five traits of a champion leader:
 Commitment
 Humility
 Accountability
 Motivation (not procrastination)
 Preparation
You can read about these five traits in more detail here.
I also created a corrolary for the context of employee expectations as well
(The 5 Self-Leadership Traits Expected of Champion Employees).
2. Throw out “The Golden Rule” to lead with "Platinum
This goes back to Champion Leadership Tip #5 almost one year ago on
November 30, 2009.
Most of us in the United States were taught "The Golden Rule" growing up
and I'm assuming other cultures offer similar teachings to the affect of "due
unto others as you would have done unto you."
But, there is a higher level, organizational leaders should follow and that is
the platinum rule, which states, "do unto others as they would like to be
done unto."
To learn more, go here.
Additionally, in Champion Leadership #44 I wrote about "The 3 'AAA'
Habits" of leading which must be incorporated into any leadership approach.
I believe these three from #44, round out the Fab 5:
3. Create & Articulate an “inspiring” vision
4. Address issues promptly, directly and respectfully
5. Ability to make decisions and take action despite uncertainty
Nurture these 5 leadership qualities and you will be on your way to having a
high-performing organization.
For more lessons on leadership communication check out "The Leadership
Series" - 7 Lessons equivalent to a 'mini-masters degree' in leadership.
Skip Weisman has over 28 years of experience in leading organizations
and/or operating his own successful business. Today Skip works with
business leaders and leaders of not-for-profit organizations to improve
personnel, productivity and profits by helping them "Create a Champion
Organization." His latest White Paper Report "The 7 Deadliest Sins of
Organizational Leadership Communication" is available as a free download at
“http://HowToImproveOrganizationalCommunication.com". ©2010 Skip
Weisman. All rights reserved. For information contact FrogPond at
800.704.FROG(3764) or email susie@FrogPond.com;
http://www.FrogPond.com.