Welcome to another blog post for my Leadership Podcast THE FRONT!

Today I am talking about some keys to leadership and how to be more effective. And I want to help you enjoy leadership success in both your personal and business life.

The Keys to Leadership Success are lined out below. This is not an exclusive list of leadership traits and I don’t have it in any order. However, each one of these traits of leadership is important. Each of these characteristics is very important and they complement one another.

Check out the video!

Integrity (1:14)

  • Integrity is honesty and having good morals. Knowing right from wrong.
  • Integrity is more than just honesty. I have always viewed it as being in alignment.
  • Integrity is essential for a leader. Employees want to know when they’re put in a difficult situation, their leader will make a fair and ethical decision

Motivation (1:59)

  • Motivation is the state or condition of being motivated. Having a strong reason to act or accomplish something
  • Motivation is NEED (or WANT) – when you NEED something badly enough, you take action to get it. It is the REASON behind what dictates our behavior and actions.

Ability to Connect / Relationship-Building Skills (3:12)

  • Technology is great. But there is no replacement for human connection.
  • Energy, warmth, understanding – when we connect with other people, we provide value.
  • Good leaders understand that they need to take people with them on their journey to success and can not do it alone. But to get people to want to go with you, they have to feel connected to you.

Resilience (4:17)

  • The power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
  • Ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like.
  • When a leader loses or when the team loses (and the leader loses). There has to be an attitude of UNTIL. “Hey bummer we didn’t make that, but let’s keep going… UNTIL”

Personal Accountability (5:20)

  • At the core of personal accountability is to do what you say you will do what you say you will do it. It’s delivering. Accountability is visible.
  • Accountability happens after the fact… you either did, or you didn’t… achieve results
  • The person we are most accountable to is ourselves. Therefore accountability at its root… is always personal.
  • Accountability is visibility. You can’t be accountable and try to hide from outcomes.

Who knows, maybe now it’s time to start a leadership success series?!